Even after a blockbuster year, BTS scores only one Grammy nomination

From left: V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin, and J-Hope of BTS attend the 2021 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Nov. 21, 2021, in Los Angeles. Photo: TNS

Even after releasing three No. 1 singles this year, global pop sensation BTS received only one nomination for the 2022 Grammy Awards.

For the second time, the South Korean boy band received its sole nomination for pop duo/group performance.

The group’s monster hit Butter is nominated alongside Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s I Get a Kick Out Of You, Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco’s Lonely, Coldplay’s Higher Power and Doja Cat and SZA’s Kiss Me More.

During Tuesday's (Nov 23) livestream announcing the 2022 nominees, BTS was excluded from the coveted record and song of the year categories, even though Butter spent a whopping 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

BTS also participated in Tuesday’s announcement by revealing the nominees for alternative music album.

Permission To Dance also peaked at No. 1 on the Hot 100, while the collective’s popular collaboration with Coldplay, My Universe, was released in October and is therefore ineligible for a 2022 Grammy Award.

BTS landed a nomination last year in the pop duo/group performance category for the chart-topping 2020 track Dynamite. Presented in March, that award ended up going to Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s Rain On Me.

The Grammys snub comes days after BTS dominated the fan-voted American Music Awards and became the first Asian group to win the show’s top honour: artist of the year.

Band members V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and J-Hope of BTS also nabbed the prize for pop group, while Butter scored the award for pop song.

“Nobody could have ever bet on the odds of us standing here receiving this award, except y’all, Army,” BTS’ RM said while accepting the AMA for artist of the year.

“Seven boys from Korea, united by a love for music.... This whole thing is a miracle.”

This weekend BTS will kick off the first of four highly anticipated shows at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium in California, United States.

Its concerts on Nov 27, Nov 28, Dec 1 and Dec 2 will mark the first time the superstars have performed before a full crowd of fans since before the Covid-19 pandemic. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service