mobanmarketKorean pop sensation BTS have been invited to join the Recording Academy as part of a drive to diversify the group that chooses the annual Grammy Awards.
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The seven-member boy band, which has led a K-Pop music wave in the United States and beyond, are among some 1,300 artists, writers and music industry professionals invited to become members of the Los Angeles-based Recording Academy.
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Should they accept, the band will be eligible to vote in the 2020 Grammy Awards, the highest honours in the music business, the Recording Academy said on Thursday.
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The chief executive of their record label, Bang Si-hyuk of Big Hit Entertainment, was also among the invitees, the band said in a statement.
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BTS first formed in Seoul in 2013 and broke through into the US pop market in 2017 becoming the first Korean group to win a Billboard music award.
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The band was nominated for their album ‘Love Yourself: Tear’ for the 2019 Grammy Awards and made their first appearance at the ceremony in February.
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The Recording Academy has undertaken a series of steps in the past few years to make Grammy nominees more diverse and to expand a membership that has traditionally been dominated by older males.
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It said that 49 per cent of those invited to join the Recording Academy this week were women, and 51 per cent were under age 40.
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