Bts Won't Submit Music For Grammys, After New Asian Music Category Introduced

The K-pop megastars BTS will not taxable euphony for adjacent year’s Grammys. The news comes contempt — aliases possibly because of — a caller class specifically designed to grant Asian pop.

The 7 members of BTS — RM, Suga, Jin, J-Hope, Jungkook, V and Jimin — each shared nan aforesaid connection crossed their societal media Wednesday, announcing nan news and saying, “We dream our euphony tin beryllium heard and loved for what it is, alternatively than being divided by region aliases language. We convey Army and everyone who has ever stood by us.”

The Grammys’ caller Best Asian Pop Music Performance class “recognizes creator excellence successful Asian popular euphony performances originating from aliases wide recognized wrong Asian markets, including but not constricted to K-pop, J-pop and C-pop, pinch meaningful usage of 1 aliases much Asian languages. Awards are presented to nan performing artist(s).”

BTS’ comeback medium “Arirang,” its first aft nan set members’ mandatory South Korean subject service, was wide expected to compete for nan award. The caller class came arsenic portion of a bevy of added aliases tweaked awards and nominating rules that will debut astatine adjacent year’s ceremonial connected Feb. 7.

BTS has a mercurial narration pinch nan Grammys, having been nominated 5 times successful various categories since becoming nan first K-pop group nominated successful 2019, and performing for nan unrecorded telecast. They person ne'er won.

The set joins nan Weeknd and Drake arsenic high-profile artists who, astatine slightest for immoderate time, declined to taxable their euphony to nan Recording Academy successful protestation of its policies aliases nominating processes.