Recording Academy Considers Revamping New Asian Pop Category After BTS Pulls From Grammy Voting

"Regardless of our intent and desire to be even more inclusive, there are some artists in this space who feel that this category isn’t representing the music they work so hard to create, in the way they wish," Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement.

CEO Harvey Mason jr. initially defended the Best Asian Pop Music Performance category when BTS opted out of submitting, but new conversations with stakeholders might change his mind

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…

"There are some artists in this space who feel that this category isn’t representing the music they work so hard to create," Harvey Mason, Jr. said in a statement.