AMAs creates the primary Ok-Pop class in a serious U.S. music award present : NPR

Music group BTS, proven right here performing on the 2017 American Music Awards, is nominated within the new Favourite Ok-pop artist class.

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Music group BTS, proven right here performing on the 2017 American Music Awards, is nominated within the new Favourite Ok-pop artist class.

Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs

The American Music Awards has created a Favourite Ok-pop Artist class — the primary class devoted to the Ok-pop style in a serious U.S. music award present.

ABC introduced nominees on Thursday for the 2022 AMAs, which has been dubbed the world’s largest fan-voted awards present.

The nominees are BLACKPINK, BTS, SEVENTEEN, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and TWICE, chosen primarily based on their efficiency on the Billboard charts. The winner will likely be introduced on the present on Nov. 20.

BTS, SEVENTEEN, and TOMORROW X TOGETHER are underneath the identical leisure conglomerate, Hybe Company. Hybe started as Massive Hit Leisure, the file label for BTS, and expanded to oversee seven file labels following BTS’s worldwide success.

BTS received its first AMA award in 2018 for Favourite Social Artist and have become the first Asian artist to win AMA’s prime honor, Artist of the 12 months, at in 2021.

BLACKPINK and TWICE additionally belong to 2 of probably the most profitable file labels in South Korea. BLACKPINK’s file label, YG Leisure, created Ok-pop trailblazers BIGBANG and 2NE1; TWICE’s file label, JYP Leisure, created Surprise Women, the primary Korean act to seem on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 in 2008.

Different new AMA classes this yr embody Favourite Afrobeats Artist, Favourite Rock Tune, and Favourite Rock Album.

Followers will be capable of vote for his or her favourite Ok-pop artist beginning Nov. 1. Voting in all different classes is open on Billboard’s web site and Twitter.