The Recording Academy Supposedly Retaliates Against BTS

Recently, all seven members of BTS unanimously announced their decision not to submit any entry for this year’s Grammy Awards, stirring up some heat.

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Many interpreted the group’s decision as their way of taking a stance against the Recording Academy, creating a new Asian Pop Music Performance category, which distinguishes music from Asian regions. Even the CEO of the Grammy Awards was compelled by the situation to issue an official response, which garnered further backlash.

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Another Grammy official, who was involved in the creation of the Asian Pop Music Performance category, also passively took a dig at the group’s decision.

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Amid this commotion, some fans were left worried when they realized that of BTS’s “Dynamite” and “Butter” performance videos at the Grammy Awards from previous years were suddenly removed from the Recording Academy’s website. Notably, those were the most viewed videos on the website.

Recording Academy has seemingly removed BTS’ iconic “Butter” and “Dynamite” GRAMMY performances from their website. pic.twitter.com/5dSUv9JK5C

— Pop Core (@TheePopCore) July 29, 2026

This removal immediately sparked a speculation that it was done it retaliation to BTS’s boycott of the Grammy Awards, sparking some strong responses.

BTS withdrawing from the nominations really got under the grammys skin to the point that they deleted the Butter and dynamite performances.. this is so embarrassing for them my god 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/phvARkEMVZ

— 🦂 (@lovethve) July 29, 2026

Deleting the most viewed performance in your stage’s history won’t erase the impact it had @RecordingAcad pic.twitter.com/sxcGU5mW0g

— 🦂 (@lovethve) July 29, 2026

just proving their status as racists and xenophobes😭😭

— ummm (@ifuckingetit) July 29, 2026

this is so pathetic like damn😆

— amber 非 ⓥ (@ambersthv) July 29, 2026

the retaliation is crazzzzzyyyyy

— Sarah (@jjkslilbitch) July 29, 2026

However, some later realized that it might not have been a targeted move against BTS, since all videos on the Academy’s website from 2021 and 2022 appeared to have been removed.

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All performances from the 2021 and 2022 Grammys have been set to private, and the page appears as unavailable on the Grammy website. This is not unique to BTS; it applies to all artists.

The only available performances are the ones the artists uploaded to their own… pic.twitter.com/t3zAgENs3t

— BTS Charts & News (@btschartsxdaily) July 29, 2026

The Recording Academy has yet to clarify the reason behind the deletions.

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