Why boy band BTS is boycotting the Grammys | DW News

Global K-pop sensation BTS have announced they will not submit their music for next year's Grammy Awards, after the Recording Academy introduced a new Asian pop category. The South Korean megastars were widely tipped in the running for several of the Grammys' top honors, including Album of the Year, after their comeback album, ARIRANG, became one of this year's best-selling hits. "We have decided not to enter the Grammys this year," BTS members said in coordinated posts on their individual Instagram accounts. "We hope that music is heard and loved for what it is, rather than being defined by region or language," they said.
Our guests for this video: Maria Sherman is a music reporter at the Associated Press, and Professor Grace Kao researches, among other things, the sociology of music, including K-Pop, at Yale University.

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Chapters:
00:00 Why BTS is boycotting the Grammys
01:23 Other artists who rejected Grammy nominations
03:23 What's wrong with the new category?
04:21 BTS's Grammy history
06:46 How the category was created
08:24 Inclusion or discrimination?
12:37 The future of K-pop at the Grammys
13:57 What do you think?


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