Just two months after the Grammy Awards announced a new category for Asian pop — and just weeks after BTS announced they would not submit their music for the 2027 awards, in part because of what they feel are the limitations of this awards — the Recording Academy has signaled that it is at least rethinking the
Grammy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. has issued a statement in response to BTS’s decision not to enter the 2027 awards, which the K-Pop superstars announced on Wednesday, in an effort to clarify that the launch of a Best Asian Pop category was not intended to sideline K-Pop artists. “I’m saddened to hear that BTS has
