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BTS Exit From Grammys Not a Surprise Says Salim Merchant

The move came after BTS said it would not enter the next Grammy race, intensifying criticism of a new category rule for Asian-language songs.

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Salim Merchant emphasises that the Recording Academy has a standard policy of preferring its artistes 

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Immediately after the group BTS declared a ‘boycott’ refusing to submit entries to next year’s Grammy Awards, representative performance videos of the group were successively removed from the official Grammy website. As of the 1st, performance videos of BTS’s 2021 song ‘Dynamite’ and 2022 song ‘Butter’ cannot be found on the official Grammy website. While these videos are currently available for viewing on BTS’s official YouTube channel, they ha…

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The Grammys are rarely without controversy. The competition organized by the Recording Academy is undoubtedly the one that accumulates the most prestige globally, but not by far the most representative, despite the efforts of the Academy to expand the jury that annually chooses the award-winning works, mostly of Anglo-Saxon artists. Faced with the latest initiative to “bring greater representation” to Asian music through the Best Interpretation …

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The band announced that they would not be part of the Grammys in 2027 and became a statement of something more than simply not presenting their latest album to be nominated.

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K-pop group BTS announced that they will not submit their songs for the Grammy Awards - the musicians explained why they are boycotting the Grammys and how the director of the award reacted to their decision TSN.ua (1+1 news)

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El Pais broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
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