BTS declined the 2027 Grammys over a new "Asian Pop" category. Here's the debate — and what one "Asian" label means for Southeast Asia's rising music scenes.

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The creative economy is the region's chosen answer — and notably, an agenda ASEAN set rather than received. Indonesia was the main sponsor of the 2019 UN resolution declaring 2021 the International Year of Creative Economy, having convened the first World Conference on Creative Economy in Bali in 2018, and ASEAN culture ministers enshrined their own definition of the "ASEAN Creative Economy" in the 2022 Siem Reap Declaration.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) represents one of the world's most dynamic regions for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and development.