Beyoncé Tops Nominee List For People’s Choice Country Awards
Beyoncé‘s push into the world of Country music has yielded another career win as she has emerged with the second highest number of nominations for the upcoming People’s Choice County Music Awards.
According to Billboard, Bey has acquired a complete of 17 nods for the upcoming ceremony, simply two lower than Country star Zach Bryan.
The first two singles from her genre-bending album Cowboy Carter — “16 Carriages” and “Texas Hold ‘Em” — are both nominated for The Female Song of 2024. She’s additionally nominated twice in The Cover Song of 2024 class, for her renditions of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” and The Beatles’ “Blackbird” — which options rising Country stars Brittney Spencer, Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell and Tiera Kennedy.
Mrs. Knowles-Carter can be nominated for The People’s Artist of 2024, The Social Country Star of 2024, The Album of 2024, The Song of 2024 (“Texas Hold ‘Em”), The Collaboration Song of 2024 (“Blackbird”), The Crossover Song of 2024 (“II Most Wanted,” her duet with Miley Cyrus), and The Storyteller Song of 2024 (“16 Carriages”).
While his appearance on Cowboy Carter‘s “Levii’s Jeans” didn’t earn a music nomination, Post Malone landed six nominations of his personal, 5 of which had been for his collaboration with Morgan Wallen on the music “I Had Some Help.”
All winners on the People’s Country Music Awards — a self-proclaimed “award show for the people and by the people” — will probably be determined by fan votes throughout a fairly tight voting interval, which began on Wednesday (August 13) and ends subsequent Friday (August 23).
All votes entered on Tuesday (August 20), a.okay.a. “Turbo Tuesday,” will probably be counted twice. Fans can view the total listing of nominees, eligibility tips and forged their ballots at VotePCCA.com.
While she’s had her justifiable share of critics, Beyonce has acquired loads of love from the Country area as nicely.
Earlier this summer time, a few of her traditional pop and R&B songs acquired the Country remedy thanks to a couple rising Black singers within the style.
As a part of Apple Music’s ‘Nashville Sessions’ sequence, Beyoncé Covered options Brittney Spencer, Tanner Adell, Joy Oladokun, BRELAND and extra taking up hits that embrace “1+1,” “Drunk in Love,” “Irreplaceable,” “Sandcastles,” “II Most Wanted” and “Halo.”
Beyoncé Reflects On Impact Of ‘Cowboy Carter’: ‘That Is Exactly What Motivates Me’
“Beyoncé has opened a door that’s going to be really hard to close,” Tiera Kennedy, who’s additionally featured on the six-song playlist, advised Apple Music.
Listen to Beyoncé Covered right here.
Cowboy Carter has been a serious success since its launch in March. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 tally with 407,000 equal album models in its first week, making for the most important gross sales week of 2024 on the time – although it has since been one-upped by Taylor Swift’s newest effort.
Twenty three of the album’s 27 songs additionally made it to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, bringing the Houston native’s profession whole Billboard Hot 100 songs to 106. She is now simply the seventeenth artist and solely the third lady to attain over 100 entries for the reason that Hot 100 was launched in 1958.
