SEOUL, Aug 4 — The Grammys have landed in hot water with BTS fans after quietly scrubbing the group’s performance clips from its official website — just days after the K pop superstars declared they would boycott next year’s awards.
According to The Korea Times, live recordings of Dynamite (2021) and Butter (2022) vanished from the Recording Academy’s site, though they remain accessible on BTS’s own channels. The Academy has yet to explain the removals.
On July 29, BTS issued a joint statement confirming they would not submit music for the 69th Grammy Awards, set for February 7, 2027.
“We decided not to submit our work for the upcoming Grammy Awards,” the group said. “We hope that music can be appreciated and loved for what it is, without being divided by region or language.”
The boycott is widely seen as a protest against the Academy’s newly minted Best Asian Pop Music Performance category. Announced in June, the rule requires songs to feature at least one Asian language — a move critics say sidelines acts from major awards such as Song of the Year, especially since BTS’s latest album Arirang is largely in English, the paper reported.
