Most artists spend their entire careers chasing the kind of year Shaboozey had in 2024. In the span of twelve months, a man who had been quietly building his craft since 2014 collected Grammy nominations, Billboard trophies, a TIME magazine honour, an SNL debut, two NFL halftime appearances, and a Grammy win that moved him to tears.
The recognition did not arrive all at once. It rolled in like a slow tide, each wave bigger than the last, until the whole country was underwater in “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” For anyone trying to track exactly what he won, when he won it, and what it means for his legacy, this is the complete record, laid out clearly.
Because the numbers alone are extraordinary. Eight Grammy nominations. One Grammy win. Three Billboard Music Awards. Two People’s Choice Country Awards. A TIME100 Next listing. And a speech that made the entire music industry stop and listen.
Five Grammy Nominations at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards
When the 67th Grammy nominations were announced in November 2024, Shaboozey walked away with five nods at his very first time in the running. Not one. Not two. Five.
Four of those nominations came directly from his breakthrough hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” He received nods for Song of the Year, Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song, and Best New Artist. The fifth came from his Beyoncé feature. He was also nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance for his appearance on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii.”
To understand the scale of what five nominations meant in that room, consider the company he kept. Shaboozey stood alongside top nominees Beyoncé with 11, Charli XCX with 7, Billie Eilish with 7, Kendrick Lamar with 7, Post Malone with 7, Sabrina Carpenter with 6, and Chappell Roan with 6. For a first-time nominee, five was not just respectable. It was a statement.
In the Song of the Year category, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” competed against “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, “Die With a Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, “Fortnight” by Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone, “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan, “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, and “Texas Hold ‘Em” by Beyoncé. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” won that evening, but Shaboozey’s presence in that category, his first year out, said everything about where the industry placed him.
He performed “Good News” and “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” at the Grammy ceremony itself, bringing the house down on one of music’s biggest stages.
2024 Billboard Music Awards: Three Wins in One Night
The Billboard Music Awards are different from every other ceremony. There are no votes, no judges, no industry panels. Winners are selected based entirely on year-end performance metrics from the Billboard charts. In other words, when Shaboozey won, it was the data talking.
He was a first-time finalist in six categories at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards, including Top New Artist, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Hot 100 Song, Top Streaming Song, Top Selling Song, and Top Country Song. He won three of those categories: Top Song Sales Artist, Top Selling Song, and Top Country Song, all for “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
He also opened the show. Walking down a grand hotel staircase in a dove-white suit with sparkling brown cowboy fringe, he performed “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” live before millions of viewers, before even a single award had been given out. And when he got to the podium to collect his three trophies, he delivered one of the most quoted acceptance lines of the night.
“In the song, it says, ‘Me and Jack Daniels got a history.’ Now, me and Billboard got a history,” he told the crowd. Three trophies. One line. The night belonged to him.
People’s Choice Country Awards: New Artist of 2024
Before the Grammys came calling, another awards body had already made its call. Shaboozey won both New Artist of 2024 and New Artist Song of 2024 at the People’s Choice Country Awards. Two wins in one sitting, both recognising the same explosive arrival on the scene.
These awards matter for a specific reason. The People’s Choice Country Awards are fan-voted. They do not reflect what executives or critics think. They reflect what listeners feel. And what country music listeners felt about Shaboozey in 2024 was clear: he was not just a crossover curiosity. He was genuinely theirs.
Winning both the artist and the song award in the same category essentially confirmed that his appeal was not accidental or manufactured. It was earned, track by track, performance by performance, from people who had chosen to press play.
Grammy Win for Best Country Duo/Group Performance With Jelly Roll (“Amen”)
On February 1, 2026, during the Premiere Ceremony of the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, Shaboozey stood onstage, looked down at a speech he had written, and broke down in tears before he could finish it.
Jelly Roll and Shaboozey won the Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for their collaboration “Amen,” marking the first Grammy victory for both artists. The nominees in the category included “A Song to Sing” by Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton, “Trailblazer” by Reba McEntire, Lambert and Lainey Wilson, “Love Me Like You Used to Do” by Margo Price and Tyler Childers, and “Honky Tonk Hall of Fame” by George Strait and Stapleton. Beating that field is not a minor achievement. That is country music’s established royalty.
Shaboozey dedicated the win to the children of immigrants. “I want to thank my mother, who, as of today, has retired from her job after 30 years working in the medical field as a registered nurse in the psych ward. She worked three to four jobs just to provide for my four siblings and me as an immigrant in this country,” he said.
He continued: “Immigrants built this country, literally. So this is for them, for all children of immigrants. This is also for those who came to this country in search of better opportunities, to be a part of a nation that promised freedom for all and equal opportunity to everyone willing to work for it.”
The room went quiet. It was one of the most talked-about moments of the entire ceremony. And it was his first Grammy.
TIME100 Next Honoree: What the Recognition Means for His Legacy
In October 2024, Shaboozey attended the TIME100 Next Gala at Pier59 in New York City, one of the most selective lists TIME publishes. The 2024 TIME100 Next honourees included Victoria Monét, Shaboozey, Vince Staples, Jaylen Brown, Aaron Pierre, Brandon Blackwood, Reneé Rapp, and Sabrina Carpenter, all recognised for making significant cultural and social impact.
Jelly Roll wrote Shaboozey’s TIME100 Next profile, describing him as “innovative, honest, charismatic, and charming in a way that’s real,” adding that he was proud to have Shaboozey representing country music.
The distinction between TIME100 and TIME100 Next is worth understanding. TIME100 Next does not require age or tenure. The list was created to recognise that many of today’s most influential leaders are individuals who are not waiting long in life to make an impact. In other words, it is not a reward for what you have already done. It is a statement about what you are going to do next.
Being placed on that list alongside athletes, designers, and cultural figures from completely different fields says something important: the world sees Shaboozey as more than a musician with a hit song. They see him as a cultural force with staying power.
28 Nominations and a Record That Rivals Country Music Peers
When you stack everything up, the scope of his recognition across just two years is genuinely rare for any genre, let alone for an independent country-rap crossover artist.
Throughout his career, he has received eight Grammy nominations and has won three Billboard Music Awards, two People’s Choice Country Awards, and an iHeartRadio Music Award. He also picked up MTV VMA nominations for Best New Artist and Song of the Summer in 2024, CMA nominations for New Artist of the Year and Single of the Year, and NAACP Image Award nominations.
To put that in context, many established country artists with decades of industry relationships take years to accumulate that kind of nomination count across that many different bodies. Shaboozey did it in under two years from the release of a single album.
What makes his record especially compelling is the diversity of the nominating bodies. Grammys, Billboard, People’s Choice, MTV, CMA, TIME, NAACP. That is not just music industry acceptance. That is cultural acceptance from almost every direction at once.
Saturday Night Live Debut and the NFL Halftime Milestones
Awards are one thing. But the stages an artist is invited to perform on tell a different story, and in 2024, the stages kept getting bigger.
On December 7, 2024, Shaboozey made his Saturday Night Live debut as musical guest on the Paul Mescal-hosted episode during SNL’s 50th anniversary season. He performed “Good News” and “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” delivering the latter in a dimly lit, bar-like setting surrounded by his backing band.
SNL is not just a television programme. It is a cultural institution. Being invited as a musical guest means the show’s producers believe an artist has reached a level of cultural conversation that warrants that platform. Shaboozey’s episode aired in the show’s 50th anniversary season, making the debut even more significant in terms of timing.
The NFL stages were equally historic. In November 2024, Shaboozey performed at the halftime show of the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game at Ford Field, nationally broadcast on CBS. In December 2024, he also performed alongside Post Malone in the Beyoncé 2024 NFL Halftime Show at the Christmas Day Game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans.
Two NFL halftime performances in the same month. One Thanksgiving, one Christmas. Tens of millions of viewers are watching both. The NFL does not book artists who might be relevant soon. They book artists who are dominating right now. And in the final stretch of 2024, nobody was dominating quite like Shaboozey.
From a Woodbridge, Virginia studio apartment to the Grammy stage, the NFL field, and Studio 8H in one relentless year. Every award, every nomination, and every stage appearance is not just a trophy or a television slot. It is a brick in a foundation that was ten years in the making, now bearing the full weight of a career that has only just begun.
