The 2020 Grammys snubbed K-Pop acts like BTS — even though they’ve outsold Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
The nominations for next year’s music awards were announced on Wednesday morning — and not a single K-Pop act was nominated for any of the categories, even though bands like BTS and BLACKPINK have outsold most American artists.
— ً November 20, 2019 And American singer Halsey, who collaborated with BTS on the hit single “Boy With Luv” that won the inaugural Best K-Pop award at the MTV Video Music Awards last summer, also chimed in on Twitter, noting that the U.S. is “so far behind on the whole movement.” Read more: All the stats proving K-Pop’s BTS is just as popular as Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and other American pop stars
While the Grammy snub may have fans fuming, BTS is still having a huge year. When the group released its “Map of the Soul: Persona” album in April, it outsold Beyonce’s surprise “Homecoming” live album, Rolling Stone reported. It also become BTS’s third Number One album on Billboard in under 11 months — the first group to post so many No. 1 albums in such a short time since the Beatles.
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