{"id":613164,"date":"2026-09-27T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613164\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:22:16","slug":"bts-pullout-from-grammys-shows-new-reality-in-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613164\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS pullout from Grammys shows new reality in music industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/comment\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comment<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Streaming challenges categories in awards system built on US market dominance<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260907 BTS.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">BTS performs\u00a0during the halftime show at the final of the FIFA World Cup in New Jersey on July 19. The supergroup\u00a0fully resumed its activities in March after all members had completed South Korea&#8217;s mandatory military service, releasing a new album for the first time in nearly four years. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)<\/p>\n<p>ATSUSHI TSUTSUMI<\/p>\n<p>September 27, 2026 08:33 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The decision by K-pop supergroup BTS to not submit any music for consideration for the 2027 Grammy Awards in protest against the creation of a new Asian pop music category has caused repercussions throughout the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comment Streaming challenges categories in awards system built on US market dominance BTS performs\u00a0during the halftime show at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3640,156,21726,2454,157,117,111,139,69,302012,6045,418],"class_list":["post-613164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-grammys","tag-industry","tag-music","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pullout","tag-reality","tag-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}