BTS’ "ARIRANG" (137 days) becomes the FIFTH-FASTEST album in history to surpass 4 BILLION streams on Spotify, surpassing Taylor Swift’s "The Life of a Showgirl" (147 days).
BTS’ “ARIRANG” becomes the FASTEST album in history by a Group and an Asian Act to surpass 4 BILLION streams on Spotify.
— Achieving the milestone in just 137 days.
"The most relevant point being that Asia is not a genre, it’s a continent composed of about 50 countries." — Rolling Stone
Go back to school .@RecordingAcad
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"..even if an artist opts to enter a broader pop category, the Academy’s Genre Committees hold the administrative discretion to reassign the entry to the Asian Pop category. In my past experience, these decisions are typically non-appealable."
[NEWS] Three time Grammy winner Indian musician Ricky Kej speaks about the Grammys, BTS and the Illusion of Inclusion
“By creating geographically bounded categories like “Best Asian Pop” or “Best African Music Performance,” we aren’t fully integrating world music into the main stage and risk excluding diverse regions from the historically prestigious categories that carry the most weight. It inadvertently sends a message that international excellence is celebrated primarily within a designated corner”
"Another fundamental issue is that “global diversity” is still frequently viewed through an American-centric lens, focusing primarily on the vibrant diaspora within the U.S."
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if you search "asian" on the official grammy search bar, only bts pops up. they'll claim they didn't create the category to sideline bts from main awards while dominating the us market in 2026, but the timing is no coincidence. bts is the only act with global power to compete on their own in main categories 😃