BTS to Perform at the 2020 Grammy Awards

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BTS will perform at the 2020 Grammy Awards, taking place this Sunday in Los Angeles, the official website of the awards confirmed.

Following much speculation, BTS fans can now rest assured that the K-pop sensation has been added to the line-up of performers on the 62nd annual Grammy Awards.

The upcoming show will mark the group's first-ever performance at the Grammys. No further details have been revealed regarding their performance.

The band will join a string of other major artists performing at this year's awards including Ariana Grande, Aerosmith, Camila Cabello, Jonas Brothers, Billie Eilish, John Legend and Demi Lovato, among several others.

Debate over whether the band was going to perform or even make an appearance at the event during the biggest night in the music industry had been building in recent days, including earlier this week when Grande posted an image of her picture with the group (minus Yoongi, which also caused a frenzy among fans on social media) at a rehearsal for the Grammys on her official Twitter account with the note: "Look who i bumped into at rehearsal :)."

Speculation grew with the band scheduled to be in L.A. just a day after the awards for an interview for iHeartRadio, for which they are also nominated in the station's iHeartRadio Music Awards taking place next month. The group is nominated in the Best Music Video category for their song "Boy With Luv" featuring singer-songwriter Halsey.

look who i bumped into at rehearsal :) pic.twitter.com/7VUjB3CMLX

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 23, 2020

The latest announcement follows the BTS 2018 album Love Yourself: Answer being officially certified as a platinum record by The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week. The album was declared to be certified gold last year by the RIAA.

Last November, BTS fans were outraged to see BTS snubbed in this year's Grammy Award nominations, being shunned in a host of categories including Album of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Record of the Year and Best World Album.

The 2020 Grammy Awards, hosted by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, will take place on January 26 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, with red carpet arrivals starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

The show will be aired live on CBS and can be streamed live on CBS.com through its CBS All Access service.

The new album by BTS—Map of the Soul: 7—will be released on February 21.

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BTS performs during the Times Square New Year's Eve 2020 Celebration on December 31, 2019 in New York City. Getty Images
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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean

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