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The Recording Academy has confirmed the new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category will debut at the 2027 Grammys, despite a boycott by major K-pop acts BTS and Stray Kids. With these groups and Blackpink ineligible or abstaining, the race is now open for artists like Cortis, Le Sserafim, and Bini.
Stray Kids have joined BTS in refusing to submit music for the 2027 Grammy Awards, a move driven by opposition to the Recording Academy's new 'Best Asian Pop Music Performance' category. While the Academy confirmed the category will proceed, citing broad industry support, major K-pop acts argue it segregates artists by region and language. Both groups remain Recording Academy voters, but their withdrawal signals a significant protest against the new classification.
Stray Kids have joined BTS in boycotting the 2027 Grammy Awards, refusing to submit music for consideration in response to the Recording Academy's new 'Best Asian Pop Music Performance' category. While the Academy confirmed the category will proceed despite backlash, critics argue it segregates artists by region and language, excluding major acts like BTS and Blackpink whose recent work is primarily in English.
Taylor Swift released 'The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore' on September 25, 2026, adding four new songs to her 2025 album. The tracks, written in Sweden with Max Martin and Shellback, include 'Patient Zero,' 'Pink Clouding,' 'Babylon,' and 'Cleveland!'. Critics are divided, with some praising the emotional depth of 'Babylon' and 'Pink Clouding,' while others criticize the self-referential nature of 'Cleveland!'. The release coincides with Grammy voting and follows Swift's wedding to Travis Kelce.
Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, a two-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master, died at age 70 at her home in Jackson, Mississippi. Time named her “America’s best singer” in 2001, and she won Grammys for New Moon Daughter (1997) and Loverly (2009). In 2022 she was honored as an NEA Jazz Master. Tributes from peers like Jon Batiste celebrated her Mississippi roots and genre-spanning voice that broadened blues-based jazz across folk, pop, R&B and beyond.
Cassandra Wilson, a two-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist known for blending jazz with pop and for inventive reimaginings of standards, has died at 70. A Mississippi native who helped launch the M-Base movement in New York, she released landmark albums including Blue Light 'til Dawn (1992) and New Moon Daughter (1995), won Grammys for New Moon Daughter (1997) and Loverly (2009), and collaborated with the Roots, Angelique Kidjo, Wynton Marsalis and many others; her death was confirmed by her manager, with no cause disclosed.
Cassandra Wilson, a Jackson-born Grammy-winning jazz vocalist celebrated for blending jazz with blues, gospel and folk, has died at age 70 in Jackson, Mississippi. City officials praise her as a native daughter whose music carried Mississippi’s sound worldwide; Wilson earned multiple Grammys and left a lasting legacy in jazz.
Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, a two-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master from Jackson, Mississippi, died September 2 at age 70; she passed peacefully at home with family. Renowned for blending blues, country and folk into jazz, she helped redefine vocal jazz after Blue Light ’Till Dawn and was honored as NEA Jazz Master in 2022, leaving a lasting influence on peers and fans. Tributes from colleagues and WBGO reflect her boundary-breaking voice.
Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” was not eligible for Song of the Year at the Grammys due to the academy’s historical rule that already-famous songs cannot win that category; Whitney Houston won in other categories in 1994, while Parton’s song was effectively blocked by the rule changes, which have since evolved.
Madonna has publicly honored William Orbit, the late Grammy-winning producer whose work on Ray of Light helped reinvent her career; Orbit died at 69, and Madonna called him a 'genius' who opened a magical world for her and inspired a new, fearless approach to singing and writing.
Renowned British music producer William Orbit, famed for reviving Madonna’s career with 1998’s Ray of Light and for work with Blur, U2 and All Saints, died at home on 23 July at age 69. Born William Wainwright in North London, Orbit earned multiple Grammys and left a lasting imprint on pop and electronic music, with tributes from peers including Mel C, Skin and Shaznay Lewis.
BTS announced they will not submit songs for the 69th Grammy Awards, saying music should be heard beyond language or regional lines; HYBE says it isn’t a company-wide boycott. The move highlights ongoing debate over genre-specific categories versus mainstream Grammys, even as East Asian pop recognition expands. BTS has been Grammy-nominated before, and their global impact is underscored by ARIRANG’s chart success.
South Korean group BTS has announced they will not submit their music for Grammy consideration this year, in apparent protest of the Recording Academy’s newly created Best Asian Pop Music Performance category designed to recognize works from Asian markets and languages. The move comes after BTS members posted on Instagram expressing that they want their music heard for what it is, without regional or language division. The group, long anticipated to receive multiple nominations for Arirang and its lead single Swim, had even been expected to perform at the ceremony. BTS is currently on a world tour and recently performed at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Halftime Show at MetLife Stadium.
BTS announced on Instagram that they will not submit their music for Grammy consideration for the 69th Grammy Awards in 2027, saying they want their work to be heard for what it is without being divided by language or region. The seven-member group has been nominated before but never won, and they're currently on the World Tour Arirang after performing at the FIFA World Cup halftime show, with more dates to come.
David Clayton-Thomas, the Canadian frontman of Blood, Sweat & Tears, has died at 84 in Toronto; a Grammy-winning vocalist known for You've Made Me So Very Happy and Spinning Wheel, he helped shape jazz-rock and sold more than 40 million records; rising from street life in Toronto to Woodstock, he joined BS&T in 1968, contributing to their chart-topping, Grammy-winning self-titled album and a string of hits including And When I Die.