Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé's country album, didn't receive a nomination at the Country Music Awards.
CMA candidates and winners are chosen annually by 7,300 Country Music Association trade group members following three rounds of voting.
Morgan Wallen leads this year with seven nominations, hoping to win entertainer of the year over Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton, and Lainey Wilson.
Wallen received four nominations for his Post Malone collaboration I Had Some Help.
Black women's first No. 1 country album was Cowboy Carter.
Texas Hold 'Em was the first track by a Black woman to top Billboard's country and Hot 100 charts.
Despite this accomplishment, Cowboy Carter received little marketing on country radio stations, which influence industry tastes more than mainstream media.
A US country music radio station initially refused to play a listener's Beyoncé request in February, but after a massive online uproar, it did.