JYP's 20 — Park Jin Young, TWICE, Stray Kids — join the Recording Academy
JYP Entertainment announced July 14 that 18 artists and 2 executives have been admitted to the Grammy-governing Recording Academy.
Twenty people from JYP Entertainment — 18 artists and 2 executives — have been admitted to the Recording Academy, the US body that has overseen the Grammy Awards since 1959.
Park Jin Young, JYP's Chief Creative Officer, all members of TWICE, and all members of Stray Kids make up the 18 artists granted Voting Member status. Voting Members are music creators — artists, songwriters, producers, engineers — with the right to vote on Grammy nominees and winners. CEO Jung Wook and Chief Strategy Officer Shin Hyun Guk, who also heads JYP America, were admitted as Professional Members. This category covers music business executives and grants submission-process access but no voting rights.
Both groups have been running strong in the US market. TWICE charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for 17 consecutive weeks with Strategy and won at the 2026 American Music Awards as the first K-pop girl group to do so. Their world tour THIS IS FOR wrapped in Seoul after 81 shows across 44 regions. Stray Kids hold the record for 8 consecutive number-one albums on the Billboard 200 (credited as the first artist to achieve this). They open their new world tour RUN IT at Seoul KSPO DOME on July 28 with five shows, then release new album THIS & THAT on August 7.
Park Jin Young, Jung Wook, and Shin Hyun Guk were named to Billboard's 2026 Power 100 Multisector list in January and to the 2026 Billboard Global Power Players in March. The Recording Academy was founded in 1957, two years before the first Grammys.
The 69th Grammy Awards are scheduled for February 7, 2027, in Los Angeles.
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