Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles doesn’t hesitate to protect her famed daughter from public ridicule. So, when she issued a response to Dolly Parton’s thoughts on Cowboy Carter not receiving any nominations for the CMA Awards fans figured it was another day of a momma bear defending her cub.

Beyoncé is seething after her best-selling Cowboy Carter album received zero nominations from the Country Music Association for its 58th CMA Awards, a source exclusively tells In Touch. Producers for the upcoming awards show are equally upset over the popular R&B singer being snubbed over fears she now won’t perform on ABC’s broadcast live

The Country Music Association announced the nominees for the 58th Annual CMA Awards on Monday, with one artist leading the nominees and one notable absence.

Dolly Parton has explained that she doesn't think Beyoncé was shut out of the CMA Awards "on purpose". Earlier this month, the nominees for the upcoming Country Music Association Awards were announced,

The Nashville music institution can be insular and opaque, and Beyoncé has said that a lack of acceptance helped inspire ‘Cowboy Carter’ in the first place.

When the 2024 CMA Awards nominations were announced Monday, one artist who took over the country charts this year was notably missing: Beyoncé. Fans immediately noticed that Beyoncé, whose album "Cowboy Carter" won over fans and critics this year, was snubbed entirely from the list of nominations.

The pop megastar finally dropped her long-teased country project, Cowboy Carter, in late March, making it eligible for inclusion on the nominees list at the 2024 CMA Awards. But Beyoncé's name doesn't appear anywhere on the batch of nominated artists this year, either for the album as a whole or for an individual song.

Dolly Parton has entered the chat about Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” being shut out at the CMA Awards. Queen Bey’s country album, which features Parton herself as well as a cover of her hit “Jolene,” didn’t get any nominations for the upcoming 58th Annual CMA Awards.