Korean pop group BTS introduced that every one seven of its members won’t submit music for Grammy consideration for the 2027 awards cycle, in what seems to be a direct protest towards the Recording Academy’s newly launched Finest Asian Pop Music Efficiency class.
The information got here via an identical statements that every member posted on their particular person Instagram accounts. The withdrawal takes BTS’s comeback album Arirang, launched in March 2026 following every member’s completion of necessary army service in South Korea, out of what had been a broadly anticipated awards marketing campaign.
Arirang debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, Swim, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
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The Assertion BTS Revealed Collectively
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All seven members of BTS, RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, printed the identical message on their respective Instagram accounts, making the announcement a coordinated group assertion somewhat than one issued via their label or administration.
The assertion learn, “We’ve determined to not submit for Grammy consideration this 12 months. We hope our music might be heard and cherished for what it’s, somewhat than being divided by area or language. We thank Military and everybody who has at all times stood by us.”
The phrase Military within the message is a reference to BTS’s world fanbase, who go by that identify collectively.
The New Grammy Class
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Final month, the Recording Academy introduced a number of new Grammy classes, amongst them Finest Asian Pop Music Efficiency. The class is designed to acknowledge inventive excellence in performances originating from or well known inside Asian markets, together with however not restricted to Okay-pop, J-pop, and C-pop.
To qualify, entries should reveal significant use of a number of Asian languages, with any awards offered on to the performing artist or artists concerned. The language requirement bars a number of of BTS’s largest English-language tracks on Arirang, an album that options predominantly English lyrics, from qualifying.
BTS had typically been anticipated to land a number of nominations for the album, together with Album of the 12 months, and the lead single Swim was additionally broadly anticipated to obtain recognition.
Over the course of its profession, the group has picked up 5 Grammy nominations in whole, together with three consecutive nods for Finest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency, for Dynamite in 2021, Butter in 2022, and My Universe, a collaboration with Coldplay, in 2023.
The opposite two nominations got here in the identical 12 months, recognizing the group for Finest Music Video for But to Come and Album of the 12 months as featured artists on Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres. BTS has by no means gained a aggressive Grammy Award.
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The Grammy Ceremony And Broadcast
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Followers and the Recording Academy had hoped BTS would carry out on the upcoming Grammy ceremony, scheduled for February 7, 2027. The 69th Grammy Awards will air on ABC and stream on Hulu and Disney+ for the primary time, ending a run of greater than 50 years on CBS.
The ceremony will happen at Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles, and BTS’s withdrawal removes probably the most high-profile acts from the nomination pool and the potential efficiency lineup.
World Cup Halftime Present And BTS US Tour
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BTS is at present on a world tour and not too long ago appeared on the FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Halftime Present on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The 11-minute efficiency featured the group performing their 2020 single Dynamite, and the present additionally featured Madonna, Shakira, and Justin Bieber.
BTS returns to MetLife Stadium on August 1 to start the US leg of its tour.
