The K-pop megastars BTS will not submit music for next year\u2019s Grammys. The news comes despite \u2014 or perhaps because of \u2014 a new category specifically designed to honor Asian pop. <\/p>\n
The seven members of BTS \u2014 RM, Suga, Jin, J-Hope, Jungkook, V and Jimin \u2014 each shared the same message across their social media Wednesday, announcing the news and saying, \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<\/p>\n
The Grammys\u2019 new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category \u201crecognizes artistic excellence in Asian pop music performances originating from or widely recognized within Asian markets, including but not limited to K-pop, J-pop and C-pop, with meaningful use of one or more Asian languages. Awards are presented to the performing artist(s).\u201d <\/p>\n
BTS\u2019 comeback album \u201cArirang,\u201d its first after the band members\u2019 mandatory South Korean military service, was widely expected to compete for the award. The new category came as part of a bevy of added or tweaked awards and nominating rules that will debut at next year\u2019s ceremony on Feb. 7. <\/p>\n
BTS has a mercurial relationship with the Grammys, having been nominated five times in various categories since becoming the first K-pop group nominated in 2019, and performing for the live telecast. They have never won. <\/p>\n
The band joins the Weeknd and Drake as high-profile artists who, at least for some time, declined to submit their music to the Recording Academy in protest of its policies or nominating processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The K-pop megastars BTS will not submit music for next year\u2019s Grammys. The news comes despite \u2014 or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2701,186280,1845,146,14445,85,46,90363,47622,26467,13698,409,256214,43,34884,13770,90362,762],"class_list":["post-565813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-award","tag-band-member","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-grammys","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-j-hope","tag-jimin","tag-jin","tag-jungkook","tag-music","tag-new-asian-music-category","tag-news","tag-next-year","tag-rm","tag-suga","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565813","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=565813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}