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Counting BTS' Korean Awards led to a local singer included in the Top 9 Artist of the world - should the world stop counting Korean awards for BTS and others?


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Should we stop counting Korean Awards for international KPop acts?  

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  1. 1. Should we?

    • Yes. Koean awards are skewed
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    • No . Korean awads should be included
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The Artist Museum on Twitter: "Most Awarded Musicians of 2021 https://t.co/THl32ECjaR" / Twitter

 

BTS won 164 awards , exactly double of that of the runner up, The Weeknd.

 

No one will probably have doubts about the first seven of the 9 most awarded artists of 2021, BTS, The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber and Dua Ripa.

 

However, the other two might question other pop fans.

 

Megan Thee Stallion is only included because of a collaboration with BTS.

 

And, the 9th , Lee Jieun, did not win a single award outside of Korea.

 

Apparently, the compiler of this list , eager to increase BTS' number of awards received, included the Korean Awards.

 

So, for the reasons of fairness, they had to count IU's 46 awards, every single one obtained from Korea, which made her #9 and one of the leading singers of the world, though she never released anything outside of Korea.

 

The 10th, Anitta, is Brazilian and it is likely that most of her 45 awards were won in Brazil, although it is possible she might have won some Portuguese awards as well, making her at least a bit more international than IU. And Anitta, who is actually a couple months older than Lee Jieun, is signed to both Warner Music and Warner Brazil, while IU is signed with Edam Entertainment, which she effectively owns, but has no international clout to speak of.

 

Given BTS is #1, the compilers of this list might have thought that IU , a Korean, might have been a better fit of the list of 9, apparently not being aware of her domesticity and her loooong history of undermining KPop whenever she could.

 

Do you think BTS' Korean achievements should be ignored since it can skew the scale towards domesticists like IU who is strong inside Korea but not too much outside of it, or do you think everything should be included even though it might benefit a domesticist like Lee Jieun?

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