BTS Will Skip 2027 Grammy Consideration, and the Academy's CEO Is Talking

The hardest fact comes first: BTS will not be submitted for consideration at the 2027 Grammy Awards, and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. has now responded publicly to the group's absence from the race.

The news, first reported by Yahoo, landed with the bluntness of a filing deadline. No submissions. No entries in the categories where the group has previously competed. For an act that has been one of the most nominated and most watched Grammy presences of the past several years, silence on the ballot is itself a story.

What does 'skipping consideration' actually mean?

The Grammys don't work on critics' picks or chart positions. Eligibility runs on submissions (entries that a label, artist or representative formally places on the ballot for a given eligibility year), after which Academy voting members screen and shortlist them. If nobody submits a recording, it cannot be nominated. It's that mechanical.

So when a group of BTS's stature sits out a cycle, the mechanism is simple: the entry never enters the pool. No rule change, no disqualification, no eligibility dispute — just an absence where voters are used to seeing a name.

What did the Academy CEO say?

Mason jr., who leads the Recording Academy (the organization behind the Grammy Awards), addressed the group's decision not to enter the 2027 consideration process. The response signals that the Academy is treating the absence as significant enough to acknowledge directly rather than let pass without comment.

That choice matters. A CEO responding to a single act's non-submission is not routine. It's the kind of statement reserved for artists whose participation moves metrics — viewership, press coverage, international attention — that the telecast depends on.

What does this change in the race?

Plenty, at least in the categories where BTS has historically carried weight.

• Fewer blockbuster entries in the pop and group-performance fields, where BTS entries have previously drawn global fan attention to the voting process itself.
• A lighter international spotlight on the pop categories, where the group's submissions have historically driven outsized outside interest in Grammy mechanics.
• Room for other group contenders — with BTS out of the pool, the nomination slots in group and duo performance categories open to acts that would otherwise have faced them.

The 2027 ceremony covers a specific eligibility window, and every submission decision shapes the ballot before a single vote is cast. A non-submission from a group this prominent reshuffles expectations months before nominees are announced.

What's still unknown?

The report does not specify which recordings were eligible, why the group is sitting out, or whether this marks a single-cycle pause or a longer withdrawal. Mason jr.'s full comments, as carried by Yahoo, form the extent of the Academy's on-record response so far.

What's certain is the mechanics: no submission means no nomination path. For the 2027 Grammys, one of the world's biggest groups simply won't be on the ballot — and the Academy's chief executive has gone on record about it.

The next data point to watch is the eligibility list itself, which will confirm exactly how the pop and group fields look without them.