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Beyonce Gets No Sales Bounce from 11 Grammy Nominations, But Taylor, Sabrina, Chappell All Benefit

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The Grammy nominations were announced last Friday.

As you may have heard, Beyonce scored a whopping 11 for her “Cowboy Carter” album.

But where are the sales? According to hitsdailydouble, Beyonce got no sales bounce from the news.

“Cowboy Carter” won’t even be in the top 50 this coming week. Counting concludes tomorrow night.

This is in stark contrast to the other ladies who were nominated. Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan each sold an average of 48,000 copies of their nominated albums since the announcement. Even Charlie XCX did well.

What is the disconnect with Beyonce? Maybe it’s because she does no promotion whatsoever. Eilish was on “SNL” two weeks ago. The others are all over the media. But Beyonce remains an enigma.

Anyway, we won’t cry for Beyonce. She’s living a pretty good life. Can she win the Grammys by doing nothing? Does she care? I guess we’ll find out.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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