Beyoncé’s 2024 genre-bending Cowboy Carter was nominated within the AOTY class alongside André 3000’s New Blue Solar, Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious And Delicate, Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4, Charli XCX’s BRAT, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division.
As for the opposite Greatest Nation Album nominees, Beyoncé beat out the likes of Put up Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, and Lainey Wilson.