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Gavin Adcock Challenges Beyoncé’s Country Music CredibilityAdcock dismisses Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning album as non-country, despite his 350M+ streams from 2024 debut album.
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- Gavin Adcock claims Beyoncé’s 'Cowboy Carter' does not qualify as country music despite its chart success.
- He highlights his own 2024 debut album’s 350 million streams to contrast with Beyoncé’s country genre authenticity.
- Beyoncé revealed the album took over five years to create, inspired by feeling unwelcome in the country music community.
- 'Cowboy Carter' earned Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammys, making Beyoncé the first Black woman to win Best Country Album.
There’s three people in front of me on the Apple Music country charts, and one of ’em’s Beyoncé … That s*** ain’t country music and it ain’t ever been country music and it ain’t gonna be country music.— Gavin Adcock, during a live performance criticizing Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album
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