Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic (L-R) Jungkook, V, Suga, Jin, RM, Jimin and J-Hope of music group BTS attend the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Jan. 26, 2020 in Los Angeles. This past year, the Academy received 14 K-pop submissions, which constituted less than 1.5% of the submissions in the pop field. The past two years have been filled with milestones for K-pop recognition in the U.S. In April 2019, BlackPink became the first all-female K-pop group to perform at the Coachella music festival. In November 2020, three of the five nominees for favorite social artist at the American Music Awards were K-pop groups (BTS, Exo and NCT 127). That same month, BTS received their first Grammy nomination in the best pop duo/group performance category for âDynamite,â their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. And just last night, BTS won four awards at the Billboard Music Awards, including top duo/group for the second time in three years and top social artist for the fifth year in a row.