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Bruno Mars was one of the many surprising snubs at Sunday's Grammy Awards, and fans aren't happy.
Mars, 40, was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for his collaboration with K-pop star Rosé, APT.
The Grenade hitmaker lost in every category, despite APT breaking multiple records and raking up billions of views on YouTube and Spotify.
Record of the Year went to Kendrick Lamar and SZA's Luther, while Song of the Year went to Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell's Wildflower, while Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande took home the trophy for Best Pop Duo.
Mars has won a Grammy at every ceremony he's been nominated in since 2014, winning a total of 16 Grammys throughout his career.
The loss sparked backlash among K-pop fans, who accused the Grammys of racism for overlooking Rose.
K-pop fans have accused the Grammys of 'racism' after Bruno Mars and K-pop star Rosé lost for their collaboration 'APT'
'The Grammys are kind of racist against KPop, huh?' one fan wrote on X.
'Y'all mocked BTS for years only for Rosé to get s**t on the same way lmao,' wrote another.
'Let’s be honest - Rosé and Bruno Mars should have been the winner for the night. Nobody had a bigger hit than those two. But Grammys is political and bought, just like Beyonce's last year,' wrote a third.
'Rosé has the biggest hit of this decade and got nothing? Yeah, Grammys will never beat the xenophobic and racist allegations.'
Despite K-pop fans claiming that the Grammys has overlooked K-pop, Golden from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack actually became the first K-pop song to take home a Grammy on Sunday.
The song, which is lifted from the hit Netflix film, won Best Song Written For Visual Media.
Golden already won Best Original Song at the Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globes, and it is currently the frontrunner to win Best Original Song at the Academy Awards.
In recent years, the Grammys has made great strides to diversify its electorate by adding more women, people of color, and people under the age of 39.
Mars has won a Grammy at every ceremony he's been nominated in since 2014, winning a total of 16 Grammys throughout his career
In 2017, Neil Portnow, who was the president of the Recording Academy at the time, dismissed allegations that the Grammys had a racial bias.
'No, I don't think there's a race problem at all,' he told Pitchfork.
'Remember, this is a peer-voted award. So when we say the Grammys, it's not a corporate entity—it's the 14,000 members of the Academy,' he continued.
'They have to qualify in order to be members, which means they have to have recorded and released music, and so they are sort of the experts and the highest level of professionals in the industry.'
Daily Mail has contacted the Recording Academy comment.
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