The Recording Academy announces that starting at the 2026 #GRAMMYs, Best Country Album will be split into 2 new categories: Best Contemporary Country Album and Best Traditional Country Album. This ...

The Recording Academy is making changes to its Best Country Album category after Beyoncé won the award in 2025.

The Grammy Awards have added a Best Traditional Country Album category and renamed the Best Country Album category to Best Contemporary Country Album. The Recording Academy defines traditional country ...

The Recording Academy is set to welcome a new country album category at the next Grammy Awards. Billboard reports that the ...

The Grammys announced Thursday it would add “best traditional country album” to the category of awards after Beyoncé’s victory in the genre’s sole 2025 classification.

B eyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” marked a historic moment in country music. Following its release in March 2024, Beyoncé became the ...

The 2026 Grammy Awards will introduce a significant change: Best country album category has been renamed best contemporary ...

Grammy Awards announce new Traditional Country Album category after Beyoncé's historic win, sparking accusations of racism ...

The Recording Academy announced it is adding two new categories for the 2026 Grammy Awards in its effort to evolve with the ...

The Academy’s top priority is to represent the music people that we serve each year,” Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording ...