No puedo estar más feliz que Yoongi haya estado disfrutando en Barcelona tranquilo y anónimamente. E-army lo hemos hecho genial en todos los sentidos. No es esfuerzo, simplemente nos nace 💜
OMG lo foto 🫠
#BTS_ARİRANG_MADRID
SWIM @bts_bighit en Madrid. La súper conexión con un Army 💜 entregado y que ha hecho preguntarse a los chicos “¿Por qué hemos tardado tanto en venir a España?
@LiveNationES@BIGHIT_MUSIC@Los40 Emisora Oficial.
I’m so tired of having the same conversation over and over with people assuming BTS fans are all teenagers screaming after cute boys
Just lectured my boss and team on women being ahead of the curve on pop culture (ahem Beatles) and the double standard with sports 🙄
Recording Academy member Adam Merter Birson on BTS at the GRAMMYs 2027:
— "BTS ARMY should make a push for ARIRANG to win Album of the Year and not be marginalized with Best Asian Pop Music category. I think it's great if smaller artists could get recognized, but not BTS. BTS is way too big and way too important of a group to be falling into this trap."
The universe owes BTS at least seven Grammy nominations this year, something like:
Album of the Year - ARIRANG
Song of the Year - SWIM
Record of the Year - SWIM
BPDGP - SWIM
Best Music Video - 2.0
Best Asian Pop Performance - Body to Body
Best Music Film - BTS: The Return
@Livheartt@Mimi_Borahae95 I think it's a maneuver to protect American artists, because #BTS's success is light years ahead of most "Western" artists. They're not going to let them compete on "the same level" because #BTS are far superior.
@Livheartt@wanga_hope To me this fake “diversity” and “opportunity” feel a lot like the “let’s have separate schools for each ethnicity” apartheid, how diverse and opportunistic was that?? and #Grammys is blatantly touting their racism. They claim to be liberal but they show their true colours
At first they weren’t mainstream enough. Weren’t global enough.
Then bts became the most successful global act across the board, breaking barriers, records, claiming longevity and relevance and still they weren’t “enough”. They were instead used for their reach, used for their name and their global fandom.
Now with Arirang, an album that has yet to reach its peak bc it’s quite literally peaking every single day, an album that has world-renowned producers who worked on it singing praises months after its release, an album about roots, identity, separation, overcoming adversity, resilience, reunion and legacy, an album only 3 months into its existence demanding the level of recognition that can’t be ignored.
So, what do they do to acknowledge it?
They create ridiculous categories in the name of diversity which to me feels like just a fancy word for exclusion.
BTS’ ‘ARIRANG’ has a 47% chance of being Spotify’s Top Album of 2026, according to Polymarket traders.
It’s currently the most streamed album released this year on the platform.