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“This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé‘ album,” Queen Bey shared online before the release of her critically acclaimed Renaissance follow-up, Cowboy Carter. On the heels of topping Billboard’s country charts — and making history as the first Black woman to score a Number One country album — Beyoncé dropped Cowboy Carter on vinyl, weeks after its release date.
Months after its release, Beyoncé has officially broken the record for the most Grammy nominations in history, securing 11 nods for this year’s ceremony including Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter. In case you’re counting, that’s 99 nominations over her career.
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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’
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Queen Bey picked up Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, Best Country/Duo Group Performance, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and five other categories.
Featuring singles like “Texas Hold ‘Em” to her version of the Beatles’ standard “Blackbiird,” “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus to “Levii’s Jeans” featuring Post Malone, Cowboy Carter also marks Beyoncé’s eighth album to top the Billboard 200 chart and, so far, the biggest debut of the year.
Where to Buy Beyoncé Cowboy Carter on Vinyl
As for the vinyl editions, Beyoncé fans can pick up the album in a few different versions, including exclusive LPs in blue, red, and white vinyl on her site.
The standard edition vinyl of Cowboy Carter is currently available on her site, and fans can find copies of the double-LP version on Amazon, Target, Urban Outfitters, and Walmart. Want a copy of the Album of the Year-nominated project? Fans can shop the vinyl below (plus Cowboy Carter on CD) — while they last.
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Beyoncé ‘Cowboy Carter’ Vinyl
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Bonus: Prime members can score free shipping on Cowboy Carter vinyl orders on Amazon.
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Beyoncé ‘Cowboy Carter’ CD
Don’t have a record player? Queen Bey also released her new project on CD, complete with a variety of Cowboy Carter back album covers on her website and sites like Amazon.
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Beyoncé ‘Cowboy Carter’ CD
Also available on Beyoncé’s website, fans can score the audio CD version of Cowboy Carter online, complete with a back cover showing the Grammy winner in a cowboy hat.
“This album has been over five years in the making,” Beyoncé wrote on Instagram ahead of the Cowboy Carter release. “It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive. It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history.”
Continued Beyoncé: “The criticisms I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that were put on me. act ii is a result of challenging myself, and taking my time to bend and blend genres together to create this body of work.”
“Beyoncé’s point is made crystal clear by the time she reaches ‘Amen’: She is country and has always been country,” Rolling Stone‘s Brittany Spanos wrote in our Cowboy Carter album review. “There’s no doubting that, gatekeepers be damned. Her latest is a history textbook making her case from track to track.”
Later in the Cowboy Carter review, Spanos writes that, “It feels like after over two decades of being a performer, we are just getting to meet Beyoncé for the first time through these albums. When she asks ‘Can you hear me?’ on ‘American Requiem,’ the answer, more than ever, is ‘loud and clear.’”