— To all the artists that are not standing up for Music:
If you're benefiting from a system that disadvantages others, silence isn't neutrality, it's comfort. It's easier to stay quiet when the system works in your favor than to risk speaking against it.
BTS didn't issue that statement because of their personal wants. They issued it because they believe music should never be separated by region or language.
"We hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language."
That sentence isn't just about them. It's about every artist who has ever been boxed into a category because of where they were born instead of what they created.
And now that one of the biggest artists in the world has finally had the courage to say it out loud, where is everyone else?
BTS have taken a stand for music itself. The least the rest of the industry can do is decide whether they have the courage to stand beside that principle or remain silent while segregation is repackaged as "representation."
ART HAS NO ALIENS @RecordingAcad
#ArtHasNoAliens
The Recording Academy has never faced this level of public scrutiny over one of its own decisions ever before.
BTS didn't ignite this discussion for personal gain. They challenged a principle that affects artists far beyond themselves.
— “We hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language”
Their message is bigger than anything. It's a call for unity over division and universality over segregation.
Now it's our turn. Keep the conversation going. Keep asking the difficult questions. Keep advocating for a music industry that recognizes excellence without creating separate lanes. Music belongs to everyone.
#ArtHasNoAliens
BTS' "ARIRANG" becomes the FASTEST album in history to have all of its songs surpass 200 MILLION streams.
— Achieving it in just 132 days, 2x faster than any other album in history.
I see a right wing bigot getting reposted for praising BTS decision (and he doesn’t even have his facts straight) Pay attention.. Glenn Beck is not like us.
🚨 Tras la polémica generada por sus declaraciones sobre BTS y la nueva categoría "Best Asian Pop Music Performance", Zeena Koda puso su cuenta de Instagram en privado y eliminó de su biografía la referencia a su cargo como Vice President of Marketing en Universal Music Enterprises (UMG).
Sin embargo, ese mismo cargo continúa figurando en su perfil de LinkedIn.
Resulta profundamente preocupante que una ejecutiva de @UMG , empresa que participa en la distribución de la música de BTS, haya decidido responsabilizar públicamente al grupo por expresar su postura frente a una decisión de los GRAMMY.
Más aún cuando sus declaraciones cuestionan la integridad de BTS y atribuyen su decisión a una supuesta búsqueda de atención mediática.
La postura de BTS fue clara: defender que la música sea reconocida por lo que es, y no dividida por región o idioma.
Nada justifica intentar desacreditar esa decisión, y menos aún viniendo de alguien que ocupa un cargo ejecutivo en una compañía vinculada a la distribución de su música.
#ArtHasNoAliens
BTS and their album "ARIRANG" surge in Spotify streams yesterday following their principled stance at the GRAMMYs.
• BTS earned 37.31M streams, an increase of 3.5M streams.
• BTS gained over 100K monthly listeners on Spotify.
• "ARIRANG" earned over 18.87M streams yesterday, an increase of 2.63M streams.
• "Aliens" (1.57M) recorded the biggest gain, adding over 715K streams.
• "ARIRANG" charted 6 songs on Global Spotify chart, MOST for any album yesterday.
• Every song on the album, as well as BTS themselves, recorded increases in streams
quem precisa de grammy quando a sua influência é tão grande que faz milhares de estrangeiros, não-falantes de coreano, cantarem uma canção folclórica do seu pais, no seu idioma?
isso, meus amigos, é IMPACTO, RELEVÂNCIA E PRESTÍGIO.
BTS occupies the Top 2 spots on both the Worldwide and European iTunes Song Charts.
— "Aliens" remains at #1 for a second consecutive day, while "NORMAL" rises to #2 on both charts.