{"id":174009,"date":"2026-08-19T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=174009"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:03:02","slug":"btss-swim-is-an-mtv-vma-nominated-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/btss-swim-is-an-mtv-vma-nominated-song\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217;s \u201cSWIM\u201d is an MTV VMA-nominated song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong> is ready to make a huge splash in the upcoming 2026 MTV VMAs with their latest musical release, <em>\u201cARIRANG.\u201d<\/em> Right now, the idols are the talk of the town after their controversial post about not submitting their music to next year\u2019s GRAMMY Awards.<\/p>\n<p>On August 18 KST, the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards shocked the K-Netizens by nominating <strong>BTS\u2019 title track,<em> \u201cSWIM,\u201d<\/em> for <em>\u201cSong of the Year.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> In addition, <em>\u201cSWIM\u201d<\/em> is not the only Kpop nominated song, as HUNTR\/X\u2019s <em>\u201cGOLDEN\u201d<\/em> is also competing for the title in the upcoming ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BTS (\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8) \u2018SWIM\u2019 Official MV\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4iVv91Z6lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s<em> \u201cSong of the Year\u201d<\/em> category features seven nominees, with the winner to be selected through online fan voting. Last year, Bruno Mars and BLACKPINK\u2019s <em>\u201cAPT\u201d<\/em> were able to snatch the crown and become the first song by a kpop artist to win the category. Do you think BTS will be able to continue the Kpop legacy with their iconic title track, <em>\u201cSWIM\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS is ready to make a huge splash in the upcoming 2026 MTV VMAs with their latest musical release, \u201cARIRANG.\u201d Right now, the idols are the talk of the town after their controversial post about not submitting their music to next year\u2019s GRAMMY Awards. On August 18 KST, the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards shocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":174010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-174009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-bts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174028,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174009\/revisions\/174028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}