Chris Willman Music WriterKacey Musgraves’ “Star-Crossed” album has been ruled ineligible to compete in the Grammys’ country categories this year, according to a letter written to the Recording Academy by her record company president, who is vehemently protesting the decision.Musgraves was widely expected to contend in country categories again, as she has in the past, but a letter from Universal Music Group Nashville president Cindy Mabe to Recording Academy president-CEO Harvey Mason Jr., dated Monday, makes it clear that the committee making decisions about country nominees has rejected “Star-Crossed” as not sufficiently country to contend there, presumably kicking the album and its singles over to pop categories.
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