they are basically off of sales and achievements, lets not try and pull the whole "AAA is about quality" because it's not. It's an attendance award, if you go to the award show you get an award.
also, bp does promote in Korea and America equally, and two of their biggest hits this year have been their Korean songs, not their English songs. that argument is just stupid. bts hasn't promoted in korea since 2017 and they're still sweeping the awards at Korean award show. blackpink is not known as an "American group", they're main appeal is that they are a kpop group. they've never claimed they were anything other than kpop.
i dont think either bts or bp are "kpop groups" anymore
there on a whole different level
and dont work like a standard kpop group anymore
and no need with the "stupid" rubbish you sound like toxic twitter
people can have different opinions without being rude
im not the only person who feel the way i do and same with you
and aaa is voted by people within there own team..
same with grammys etc etc
so who wins will be based on the show opinion
no matter what sales you have
korea/japan etc public opinion will matter more than the west for the aaa's
yes if we went fully on sales etc bp and bts would win the whole show and no1 would care for it..
cause no other artist would attend and no other fandoms would watch.. the show prob wouldn't even happen
just awards posted on twitter...
so attendance has small sway obviously the company would be foolish if it didnt
but this also happens with western award shows