The Recording Academy has worked to reshape its voting pool, but the triumph of “Cowboy Carter” as album of the year can’t be traced to any one factor.

Beyoncé has finally won Album of the Year. The win comes more than two decades into her career for Cowboy Carter, her history-making eighth studio album created in response to her experience being rejected from the country genre as a Black woman from the South.

And the "Big Four" didn’t disappoint, either: Chappell Roan won Best New Artist; Kendrick Lamar won both Song of the Year and Record of the Year for his hit “Not Like Us.” Beyoncé finally won Album of the Year for "Cowboy Carter."