BLACKPINKs Rose Achieves A Great Feat At The American Music Awards

The nominations for The American Music Awards were announced recently. Many singers, including Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone, Sabrina Carpenter, SZA, and Taylor Swift, won big on the nominations. The stars in the K-pop sphere, including Rosé, have also been nominated in different categories. Interestingly, Rosé became the first K-Pop artiste to be nominated in a non K-Pop category. She earned her nomination in ‘Collaboration of the Year’ category for her song APT with Bruno Mars.

Bruno Mars and Rosé from Blackpink in promotional shots for their collaborative song

The other nominees in the Collaboration of the Year category include Kendrick Lamar and SZA for Luther, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars for Die With A Smile, Marshmello and Kane Brown for Miles on It, Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen for I Had Some Help- and Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone for Fortnight.

Not just that, Rosé is also the only female nominee alongside all-male contenders for the Favourite K-Pop artiste category. She has been nominated alongside Stray Kids and Ateez, as well as BTS members Jimin and RM individually.

About APT

Rosé and Bruno Mars’ APT is based on a Korean drinking game. It has achieved its place at the Billboard’s Hot 100 singles for the 26th consecutive week.

In an interview, Rose had opened up about not having faith in the track. Speaking about thinking of deleting the track, she said, “I think it is a bit scary, because when I played it to a Korean friend that I really like trust, I played it to Teddy, my producer in BLACKPINK. If I didn’t play it to him, I don’t think I wouldn’t have really understood. He was instantly like, ‘Rosie, this song is gonna break the internet.’ That’s what he said. Because I trust his opinion, I was like, ‘Really,’ he’s like, ‘I love it, this is crazy.’ So that’s when I was like, ‘Okay.’ I started calling them back, you know like, let’s bring it back out. So it is kind of scary.”