SOUTH KOREAN boyband BTS’ collaboration with American singer Halsey, “Boy With Luv,” received four nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Tuesday, including one for a new category: best K-pop.

The song also received nods for best collaboration, best art direction and best choreography.

Meanwhile, Halsey herself received six nominations.

This year’s VMAs, which are voted by fans and known for their unpredictable stunts, will be broadcast live on Aug. 26 from Newark, New Jersey.

Aside from best K-pop, another new category is video for good, which features songs that have raised awareness or given out a wider message. Animated, star-studded or depicting real footage, they include videos for Lil Dicky’s environmentally themed “Earth,” John Legend’s “Preach” about social injustices, Halsey’s female-empowering “Nightmare” and Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down.”

Swift, along with Ariana Grande, received the highest nominations with 10 each, while young singer-songwriter Billie Eilish scored nine nominations, including video of the year, best pop, best new artist and artist of the year, a category the 17-year-old will compete for against Grande, rapper Cardi B, pop rocker siblings Jonas Brothers as well as singers Halsey and Shawn Mendes.

Grande’s breakup anthem “Thank U, Next” and Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down,” in which she criticizes social media trolls and those who attack LGBTQ people, will contend for prizes including song of the year, best pop and the video of the year. (SD-Agencies)