More from the OpEd...

... Billboard has made the decision that "Texas Hold Em" and "16 Carriages" are country songs. This is divergent from the decision than Billboard made when Beyonce released her 2016 track "Daddy Lessons" that some also claimed to be country. Billboard also came to this decision despite the original metadata on the tracks being marked as "pop" by Beyonce's label. In the Billboard article officially announcing Beyonce's #1, the publication even starts off by describing her as a "Pop and R&B/hip-hop superstar."

Sure, if a Black woman either native to country music or coming up through the country music ranks would have achieved a similar goal, it would speak to the opening up of the genre to women of color. But that's not what's happened here at all. Instead, Beyonce is leveraging her global superstar status earned in the pop and R&B/hip-hop world, the enthusiasm of her Stan army the Beyhive, and the coercion of country music's institutions to ensconce herself atop the genre. ...

The OpEd reads like a whole lot of sour grapes to me...