JYP did not spell out Stray Kids’ rationale in the reports Billboard cited; the timing tracks with the Academy’s decision to retain the new category. Billboard said it had sought comment from the group’s reps and the Grammys. Commercially, Stray Kids remain on a hot streak, topping the Billboard 200 twice in the past year with the November EP DO IT and August’s THIS & THAT, whose title track reached No. 38 on the Hot 100.
Image: Stray Kids at Governors Ball 2026 — Siegfried Anthony / Billboard — https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/stray-kids-join-bts-2027-grammys-boycott-1236353243/