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BTS and BTS won the Artist of the Year award, which is the grand prize at the 'American Music Awards', one of the top three popular music awards in the United States. It is the first time an Asian singer has won this award, and expectations for the Grammy Awards to be held early next year are also rising.
This is Washington correspondent Yunsu Kim.
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American Music Awards in 2021 was truly a solo stage for BTS.
Starting with winning the 'Favorite Pop Duo Group' category for three consecutive years, he won the Favorite Pop Song Award, and
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Finally, the artist of the year that corresponds to the grand prize, 'Artist of the Year', achieved three trophies.
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is the first time since the American Music Awards in 1974 that an Asian singer has been selected as the Artist of the Year.
It defeated prominent stars such as Taylor Swift, who has won the most American Music Awards in history, The Weeknd, and Ariana Grande.
Starting with the Billboard award in 2017, BTS, which has rated the American Music Awards, will receive the Grammy Award, which failed to win last year, and will be a 'grand slam' at the top three American popular music awards.will achieve.
Grammy nominees will be selected the day after tomorrow (24th), and the awards ceremony will be held on February 1st next year.
BTS is scheduled to begin full-scale activities this weekend in Los Angeles, USA, including resuming offline concerts that have been suspended for two years since the COVID-19 outbreak.
(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, video editing: So Ji-hye)