{"id":913611,"date":"2026-10-02T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913611\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:46:08","slug":"stray-kids-join-bts-in-not-submitting-to-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913611\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray Kids Join BTS in Not Submitting to Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPopular K-pop group Stray Kids<\/a> let the submission window for the 69th Grammy Awards<\/a> close without entering any music, their agency JYP Entertainment confirmed on Friday, joining BTS<\/a> in sitting out the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe agency confirmed to local media that the group filed no entry before the Aug. 21 submission deadline, but offered no explanation for the move and would not confirm whether the new Asian Pop category played any part in it. Under Grammy rules, music not formally submitted cannot appear on the nomination screening ballots or go on to compete for a win.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll eight Stray Kids members \u2014 Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N \u2014 received invitations this year to become Recording Academy voters, a role that lets them help pick nominees and winners even though they kept their own music out of the running.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt an Aug. 6 press conference in Seoul for the group\u2019s 10th EP, \u201cThis & That,\u201d members sidestepped direct questions about their Grammy plans. Seungmin deflected a question about the new category by pointing to what drives the group creatively rather than how it\u2019s perceived externally, while Hyunjin said the band has never chased an award or a chart milestone since debuting, calling fan satisfaction the group\u2019s real benchmark.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS dropped a bombshell in July<\/a> that it would not submit its own music for the 69th Grammy Awards, after the Recording Academy had introduced the Asian Pop category the month before. \u201cWe have decided not to submit for Grammy consideration this year,\u201d the group said in a statement posted across its members\u2019 individual Instagram accounts. \u201cWe hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language. We thank Army and everyone who has always stood by us.\u201d BTS has been nominated for Grammys five times but has never won.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Recording Academy had spent several weeks holding listening sessions and talking with leaders in the Asian music community before Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. confirmed on Thursday that the category would proceed for 2027<\/a>. He said the Academy heard both candid opposition to the category and strong support for keeping it, with enthusiasm from fellow music creators ultimately outweighing the criticism. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe understand this conclusion will not satisfy everyone, and that never feels good,\u201d Mason said. \u201cBut at the same time, we are confident it\u2019s the right conclusion for the music community overall.\u201d The Academy also noted it had received a \u201crobust\u201d number of submissions for the category\u2019s first year, and Mason said it looks forward to celebrating its nominees at the 2027 ceremony.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new category revives a familiar tension around the Grammys\u2019 genre-specific awards: intended to spotlight a style of music, they can instead read as exclusionary, with voters steering artists toward the niche category rather than the more mainstream ones. The complaint has long trailed the Latin Grammys. <\/p>\n

\n\tK-pop\u2019s clearest Grammy breakthrough to date came earlier this year when \u201cGolden\u201d \u2014 from the animated film \u201cKPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d and featuring vocals from the fictional group Huntr\/x\u2019s EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami \u2014 won best song written for visual media, though it lost out in best song.<\/p>\n

\n\tNominees for the 69th Grammy Awards are scheduled to be announced Nov. 16, with the ceremony set for Feb. 7, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular K-pop group Stray Kids let the submission window for the 69th Grammy Awards close without entering any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,405,134,61806,28936,136,24878],"class_list":["post-913611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy-awards","tag-kpop-demon-hunters","tag-music","tag-stray-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}