Blackpink’s Rosé, ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and Katseye earn Grammy nominations

 
Blackpink’s Rosé and Netflix’s smash hit “KPop Demon Hunters” every earned three nominations for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, in line with the Recording Academy’s announcement livestreamed on Saturday, alongside HYBE’s international woman group Katseye.
 
Rosé’s viral megahit “APT.” (2024), a collaboration with Bruno Mars, and “Golden,” the ever-present chart-sweeping anthem from “KPop Demon Hunters,” at the moment are competing in opposition to one another for the Music of the Yr. Different nominees within the class embrace Woman Gaga’s “Abracadabra,” Doechii’s “Nervousness,” Dangerous Bunny’s “DtMF,” Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” (2024), Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild,” and Billie Eilish’s “Wildflower” (2024).
 

HUNTR/X from Netflix’s animated movie ″KPop Demon Hunters″ [NETFLIX]

 
“APT.” can also be up for the File of the Yr award, whereas “Golden” earned a nomination for Greatest Music Written for Visible Media.
 
Each songs are additionally competing for Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency in opposition to Katseye’s “Gabriela,” “Defying Gravity” from the musical movie “Depraved” (2024), and “30 for 30” by SZA and Kendrick Lamar.
 
This marks the primary time that songs thought-about to be within the broader Okay-pop style have reached the ultimate nomination spherical for the Grammy’s File of the Yr and Music of the Yr classes within the Normal Subject, the non-genre-specific awards broadly thought-about as essentially the most prestigious honors of the ceremony.
 

Katseye poses with the MTV Push Efficiency of the Yr award for its 2024 single ″Contact″ on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York, U.S., on Sept. 7. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

 
The Grammys’ Normal Subject consists of six main awards that aren’t genre-specific: File of the Yr, Album of the Yr, Music of the Yr, Greatest New Artist, Producer of the Yr, Non-Classical and Songwriter of the Yr, Non-Classical.
 
Okay-pop megaband BTS, which till now had been the primary and solely Okay-pop act ever nominated for a Grammy, acquired nods for Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and for Greatest Music Video in 2023. The septet was additionally credited as a featured artist when Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres” was nominated within the Album of the Yr class for his or her collaboration on “My Universe (2021).
 
In the meantime, multinational woman group Katseye beneath Okay-pop powerhouse HYBE was nominated for Greatest New Artist in addition to Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency, whereas the Tony Award-winning Korean musical “Perhaps Glad Ending” will compete for Greatest Musical Theatre Album at subsequent 12 months’s ceremony.
 

Woman group Katseye [HYBE]

Different Okay-pop acts that had submitted their work for consideration by the Academy for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards embrace boy bands Seventeen, Stray Youngsters, Ateez, Riize and Tomorrow X Collectively, woman teams Blackpink, Twice, Katseye, aespa, IVE and Le Sserafim and solo singers Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, Jin, J-Hope and RM.
 
The Recording Academy, organizer of the annual Grammy Awards, will start the ultimate vote for nominees from Dec. 12 by way of Jan. 5. The 68th Grammy Awards will happen on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles.
 
In September, Rosé made historical past on the MTV Video Music Awards, changing into the primary Okay-pop artist to win Music of the Yr.

Singers Rose and Bruno Mars within the Blackpink member’s 2024 hit monitor ″APT.″ [THE BLACK LABEL]

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