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Grammy Awards add Asian Pop and Latin song categories
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- The annual award show - regarded as music's biggest night - hands out gongs to artists in a huge range of genres.
- Grammys chief executive Harvey Mason Jr said expanding the number of categories made the event "more inclusive" and enabled the awards to "represent more music creators, artists, writers and producers".
- The Recording Academy, which organises the Grammy Awards, added a number of Korean and Latino artists to its voting panel last year - a move widely seen as laying the ground for an expansion.
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Tom Richardson BBC Newsbeat Getty Images Bad Bunny became the first artist to win album of the year for a record sung entirely in Spanish at this year's Grammys The Grammy Awards is adding five new categories, including best Asian pop music performance and best Latin song.
It comes after Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny became the first artist to win the coveted album of the year prize for a Spanish-language record, and KPop Demon Hunters anthem Golden also made history at the US ceremony earlier this year.
The annual award show - regarded as music's biggest night - hands out gongs to artists in a huge range of genres.
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