BTS nominated for 4 categories in this year's MTV Video Music Awards

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BTS nominated for 4 categories in this year's MTV Video Music Awards

Korean boy band BTS performs in Korea during the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, being held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic, broadcast on Aug. 30, 2020, in New York. [MTV]

Korean boy band BTS performs in Korea during the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, being held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic, broadcast on Aug. 30, 2020, in New York. [MTV]

 
MTV announced the list of nominations for this year’s award ceremony on Tuesday, and Korea’s K-pop superband BTS snagged nominations in four categories, making them the band with most nominations at this year’s awards.
 
The band is again nominated for Best K-pop — an award the band has won for the past three years — for “Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” which is the lead track from the band’s first anthology album “Proof” that dropped this year.
 
MTV introduced the category of Best K-pop in 2019, and no act has been able to beat BTS.
 
BTS’s "Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)” will compete with four other K-pop acts for the Best K-pop category: ITZY, Lisa from Blackpink, Seventeen and Twice.
 
The band is also nominated for Best Choreography with its “Permission to Dance,” (2021) and Best Metaverse Performance for its Minecraft performance and Best Visual Effects, jointly nominated with Coldplay for their hit collaboration song “My Universe” (2021).  
  
BTS’s third English-language single “Permission to Dance” has six other songs it’s competing against for Best Choreography, including Doja Cat’s "Woman," Harry Styles’ “As It Was” and FKA twigs ft. The Weekend’s “Tears In The Club.”
 
“My Universe” for the Best Visual Effects category is competing against five other songs including Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever.”
 
Blackpink is one of the K-pop acts competing against BTS for Best Metaverse Performance, while its member Lisa is competing separately with “Lalisa” for Best K-pop.
 
Meanwhile, boy band Seventeen has also been nominated for three awards this year: Best New Artist, Push Performance of the Year for “Rock With You” and Best K-pop for “HOT.”
 
Fans can vote online until the awards ceremony at www.mtv.com/vma/vote/video-of-the-year. The event is slated to be held on Aug. 28.

BY YIM SEUNG-HYE [yim.seunghye@joongang.co.kr]
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