if the BBMAs are basing their awards on the artist 100 and billboard 200 peaks/year-end etc., then i can see why BTS are not nominated (15 on the former, mots:p ranked 51 on the latter).
the question is why rappers like drake, travis scott etc. don't get the nom, but jobros do.
the question is why rappers like drake, travis scott etc. don't get the nom, but jobros do.
on the year-end top artist chart:
5. drake
6. travis scott
11. jonas brothers (???)
https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-artists
5. drake
6. travis scott
11. jonas brothers (???)
https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-artists
on the year-end billboard 200 chart:
6. drake - scorpion
7. meek mill - championships
8. travis scott - astroworld
10. a boogie wit da hoodie - hoodie szn
25. jonas brothers - happiness begins (!!!)
https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-billboard-200-albums
6. drake - scorpion
7. meek mill - championships
8. travis scott - astroworld
10. a boogie wit da hoodie - hoodie szn
25. jonas brothers - happiness begins (!!!)
https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-billboard-200-albums
one would like to think that the criteria was "no hip-hop artists, just pop artists"--already a stupid and fairly racist criteria for a "top artist" primary category considering hip-hop is the most popular genre.
but POST MALONE is one of the 5 nominated artists.
but POST MALONE is one of the 5 nominated artists.
so post malone gets to make trap-influenced songs with 21 savage and west coast-style songs with YG and g-eazy--just examples from an album FILLED with hip-hop songs--and he gets pop artist noms, but drake, a boogie and travis scott, who are basically just as melodic, do not?
never mind that BTS had way better sales worldwide than basically all of these artists. if it's a US award, it's a US award--call it what it is, an american MMA, a local award. but you have black artists basically doing the same shit to more success as white artists and no noms?
i wanna know what criteria this is based on because whatever statistic from billboard tells me definitively that jobros were more popular and had a bigger album than DRAKE and TRAVIS SCOTT between march 2019 and march 2020 is most definitely a bad statistic.