BTS will not submit music for consideration at next year’s Grammy Awards, members of the K-pop supergroup announced Wednesday, a little over a month after the Recording Academy confirmed that the 2027 ceremony will include an Asian pop music performance category for the first time.
“We have decided not to submit to the Grammys this year,” the band said in a statement shared on Instagram by all seven members, adding: “I hope that music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language.”
BTS have enjoyed massive success since forming in 2010. They picked up the Billboard Music Award (BBMA) for Top Social Artist five times between 2017 and 2021, were named Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards in 2021 and 2026, and became the most awarded group in BBMA history in 2022.
But some fans fear the introduction of an award defined by geography minimizes the value of artists’ work.
BTS “incapsulate everything I love about music,” Will Scragg, 27, told CNN. The English superfan has seen the band twice this summer — once in his hometown of London and again traveling overseas to Munich.
