[theqoo] GRAMMY TO INTRODUCE THE ‘ASIAN AWARDS’ NEXT YEAR… AND THE REACTIONS

The GRAMMYs are introducing their first Asian category at next year’s ceremony.

Best Asian Pop Music Performance will recognise K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop recordings that feature meaningful use of one or more Asian languages. pic.twitter.com/lDLVtzQ10f

— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 16, 2026

The Grammy Awards are introducing their first-ever Asian category at next year’s ceremony.

The Best Asian Pop Music Performance award will go to a song featuring the meaningful use of one or more Asian languages ​​from K-Pop, J-Pop, or C-Pop.

Reactions to this:

– Ah… so Asia only exists for Korea, China, and Japan? Okay, okay

– Creating a new category just to prevent Asians from winning on the main awardㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 

– Is there a separate category for the UK? What about North America? Europe? It’s just rac*sm

– It must be East Asia, not just “Asia.”

…and so on. Reactions are extremely cold

1. This is definitely rac*sm 

2. Yah this is so disgusting

3. Seriously are they just making sure to keep K-pop in check?

4. Just make a K-pop award at this point f*ck 

5. Rac*sts

6. There are a lot of good SEA songs, especially Indonesian 

7. They’re such losers

8. So they’ll be using BTS 

9. They will award us, but just not the main categories ㅋ

10. They’re definitely not awarding us any of their main awards