{"id":564848,"date":"2026-07-29T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/564848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:59:09","slug":"after-asian-pop-category-launch-bts-says-it-wont-submit-music-to-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/564848\/","title":{"rendered":"After Asian pop category launch, BTS says it won&#8217;t submit music to Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6aee1c97-ff95-419b-b120-50e731bd5fc0.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1281; width: 100%\" alt=\"K-pop boy band BTS \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>K-pop boy band BTS \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">K-pop juggernaut BTS announced Wednesday that it will not submit its music for consideration at the 69th Grammy Awards, set for February, in a move widely interpreted as a protest against the Recording Academy&#8217;s new Asian pop category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;We have decided not to submit our music to the Grammys this year,&#8221; the group said in a statement shared through the Instagram Stories of all seven members. &#8220;We hope music can be heard and loved as music itself, rather than being divided by region or language.&#8221; The septet also thanked its official fandom ARMY and supporters worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The decision comes despite a banner year for the group. Its fifth studio album &#8220;ARIRANG,&#8221; released in March, topped the Billboard 200 with 641,000 units, the biggest week for a group album in more than a decade, while lead single &#8220;SWIM&#8221; debuted atop the Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The announcement follows the academy&#8217;s introduction in June of Best Asian Pop Music Performance, one of five categories added for the upcoming ceremony. Critics have called the category a form of segregation that sidelines Asian acts from major awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">BTS earned three consecutive nominations for Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance from 2021 to 2023, but has never won a Grammy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop boy band BTS \/ Courtesy of BigHit Music K-pop juggernaut BTS announced Wednesday that it will not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-564848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}