BTS, Grammy Award Misfire… ‘Pop Duo Group’ to Lady Gaga (General)

The first Korean pop singer nominee, the next prize… Grammy main ceremony solo stage scheduled

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Hyo-jeong = The first Korean pop singer to be nominated for the American Grammy Awards, the BTS’s award was missed.

The recording academy hosted by Grammy is the winner of the’Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’ category at the 63rd Grammy Awards Premier Ceremony (pre-award ceremony) held on the 15th (14th local time). Announced’.

BTS was nominated for this category with’Dynamite’, which was released as a digital single in August last year.

In addition to these, Jay Balbin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tiny’s’An Dia’, Justin Bieber and Quaybo’s’Intensions’, and Taylor Swift and Von Eveer’s’Exile’ competed.

‘Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’ is one of Grammy’s pop genre awards, given to musicians who have achieved outstanding artistic achievements in pop vocals and performance performances in the form of duo, group, and collaboration.

‘Dynamite’, a reinterpretation of a disco, was a mega hit song that led the world’s popularity of BTS last year, and it ranked first on the Billboard single chart for three weeks.

It is the first time that a Korean pop singer has been nominated for the Grammy Awards, the most prestigious in the music industry, and it was the first time that an Asian singer was nominated for the’Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’ category, which was awarded in 2012.

There was an expectation that it could lead to the award beyond the nomination, but this challenge of BTS did not lead to the award, and the next pledge was made.

The winner’s’Rain on Me’ is a dance pop song pre-released in Lady Gaga’s 6th album’Chromatica’ released in May last year.

In the song containing the message of overcoming hardships, the two top pop stars Gaga and Grande joined in and became a hot topic. At the time of its release, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard main single chart, and was also selected as the best song of 2020 by the Billboard staff.

Grammy winners and nominations are selected through voting by members of the recording academy composed of music experts such as singers, producers, recording engineers, and critics.

The final voting to determine the winners took place from December last year to January.

However, the announcement of the winners was delayed as the awards ceremony was postponed from January to March in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

Grammy announced most of the 83 award categories this year at the premier ceremony, and in the case of’Best Pop Duo/Group Performance’, legendary producer Jimmy Jam announced the winners.

Meanwhile, BTS will perform for the first time as a Korean singer at this awards ceremony at the Grammy Awards, which starts at 9 am on the 15th Korean time.

At last year’s Grammy Awards, the people who performed jointly with rapper Lil Nas-X and others were given the stage as official nominees this year. The stage was pre-recorded in Korea.

Leader RM said in an interview with USA Today in the United States, “What we wanted more than nominations or awards was the (Gramy) performance,” and “Because we are a performance team, it was one of the final dreams of this journey to perform with our songs.” said.

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