BTS announces it will not submit any music for the upcoming Grammy Awards, arguing that awards should not divide music by region or language.The Recording Academy has created a new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category that requires meaningful use of one or more Asian languages, a threshold that would likely render Arirang and its single Swim ineligible because they are sung primarily in English.The seven members—
Kim Nam-joon,
Kim Seok-jin,
Min Yoon-gi,
Jung Ho-seok,
Park Ji-min,
Kim Tae-hyung and
Jeon Jung-kook—have been voting members of the
Recording Academy since 2019;
Arirang debuted at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200, Swim hit No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100, and the band is touring North America while the
Recording Academy has not responded.