BTS•방시혁, 내년부터 美 그래미어워즈 투표 참여한다<br /><br />K-Pop sensations BTS and their chief producer have clinched memberships to the U.S. Recording Academy, the group that chooses the annual Grammy Awards winners.<br />Kim Mok-yeon reports.<br /> BTS have been invited to join the U.S. Recording Academy, an elite group of pop music figures most well-known for voting for the Grammy Awards.<br />The Los Angeles-based group announced the list of 1,340 people in the music industry that have been invited to be members on Thursday.<br />All seven members of the boyband were invited as "voting members" while the chief executive of their record label Big Hit Entertainment, Bang Si-hyuk was invited to be a professional member of the academy.<br />Since 1959, the Recording Academy has hosted the Grammy Awards every year to recognize the top talents in the music industry. <br />The boyband and Bang will now be able to cast their votes for the awards from 2020 and onward. <br />Big Hit Entertainment said that the academy's decision seems to reflect the impact and contribution BTS and Bang have made on the global music scene.<br />Earlier this year, Bang made Billboard's 2019 list of International Power Players as well as the U.S. magazine Variety's list of International Music Leaders.<br />BTS meanwhile have been making history in the U.S. pop market since 2017.<br />And it's not just the globe that BTS are making a mark,... songs of the seven-member boyband will now be heard in outerspace in 2024 as part of NASA's playlist on its voyage to the Moon.<br />NASA announced that the boyband's songs "Moonchild," "Mikrokosmos" and "134340" made the list.<br />The three space-themed songs were selected through the recommendations from Twitter. <br /> NASA's 2024 moon mission has been code-named Artemis,... and will see the first female astronaut land on the moon. <br />Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News. <br />
