Recently, the famous music magazine Billboard had a predictive post about the main nominations for Grammy 2026.
In particular, the song APT. by Rose (Blackpink) and Bruno Mars was predicted by Billboard to receive a nomination in the category of recording of the year - 1 of the 4 most important awards of Grammy.
According to Billboard, if APT. is truly nominated, this will be a historic nomination: Rose (Blackpink) will become the first K-pop artist to receive a nomination from Grammys Big Four as a lead artist.
In addition, American male artist Bruno Mars - who performed with Rose in the song, and producers Cirkut, Omer Fedi, Roget Chahayed will also be nominated.
Previously, Bruno Mars was nominated 6 times for the " recording of the year" category and won 3 times with the songs "Uptown Funk" (co-focused with Mark Ronson) in 2016, "24K Magic" in 2018 and "Leave the Door Open" (co-focused with Anderson.Paak) in 2022.
Throughout his career, Bruno Mars has won a total of 16 Grammy awards to date. Last year, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga won the Best Pop Duet/Group Performance award with the hit Die with a smile.
7 other candidates were predicted by Billboard with "APT." Including "That’s So True" by Gracie Abrams, "Manchild" by Sabrina Carpenter, "Denial is a river" by Billie Eishi's "Wildflower", "Abracadabra" by Ladrick Lamar and Sza "Luther", "Ordinary" by Alex Warren.
APT. is included in Rose (Blackpink)s solo album Rosie, released in October 2024. The song has achieved impressive results after 9 months of release, breaking a series of Kpop records.
APT. is the highest-charting song by a female K-pop artist on the Billboard Hot 100 (No. 3), making it the longest-running K-pop artist in the charts history.
On Spotify, APT. is currently the fastest K-pop song to reach 1.8 billion streams in history (after 260 days) and the most-versed K-pop solo artist song of the decade.
On YouTube, the MV APT. is also the Kpop MV that surpassed 1.8 billion views the fastest in history.
Recently, Rose was honored by Luminate as Korea's No. 1 global music export artist, proving the singer's popularity in other countries.
APT. is also the second biggest song of 2025 according to Luminate's mid-year report. This is the first time a K-pop solo artist and female K-pop artist have appeared on this list.
Rose's YouTube channel is currently the most viewed channel of a female K-pop solo artist, surpassing 4 billion views.
