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The iHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards show that celebrates music heard throughout the year across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's digital music platform. Founded by
iHeartRadio
iHeartRadio (often shortened to just "iHeart") is an American freemium broadcast, podcast and radio streaming Computing platform, platform owned by iHeartMedia. It was founded in August 2008. , iHeartRadio was functioning as the national umbr ...
in 2014, the event recognizes the most popular artists and music over the past year. Winners are chosen per cumulative performance data, while the public is able to vote in several categories.
The inaugural event was held on May 1, 2014, at the Shrine Auditorium
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in Los Angeles. Its first two years were broadcast live on NBC
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; from 2016 to 2018, it was simulcast on TBS, TNT
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and TruTV
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. The sixth annual iHeartRadio Music Awards were held on March 14, 2019, at Los Angeles' Microsoft Theater
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and was the first to air on Fox
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. The trophy is manufactured by the New York firm Society Awards
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Overview
The nominations are based on results from the iHeartRadio Chart. It includes listener feedback and performance data, according to airplay; digital streaming data from the iHeartRadio platform, including sales, social, online video data and tags fromBigChampagne
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and Shazam. The iHeartRadio Countdown
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, the two-hour weekly program, highlights the top 20 contemporary hit radio
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songs in the iHeartRadio Chart. The latter is supplied and compiled by Mediabase
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. In addition, every public-voting category (nine in 2018), includes social hashtag
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s as the primary voting mechanism.
List of ceremonies
Award categories
The categories cover an array of genres, including pop, alternative rock, hip-hop, R&B, Latin and regional Mexican music. Public-voting categories through social media are indicated with a double dagger ().Current award categories
* Song of the Year (2014–present) * Female Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Male Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Best Duo/Group of the Year (2016–present) * Best New Artist (2014–present) * Best Collaboration (2014–present) * Pop Album of the Year (2017–present) * Best New Pop Artist (2017–present) * Alternative Rock Song of the Year (2014–present) * Alternative Rock Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Alternative Rock Album of the Year (2017–present) * Best New Rock/Alternative Rock Artist (2017–present) * Rock Song of the Year (2016–present) * Rock Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Rock Album of the Year (2017–present) * Country Song of the Year (2014–present) * Country Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Country Album of the Year (2017–present) * Best New Country Artist (2017–present) * Dance Song of the Year (2015–present) * Dance Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Dance Album of the Year (2017–present) * Hip-Hop Song of the Year (2016–present) * Hip-Hop Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Hip-Hop Album of the Year (2017–present) * iHeartRadio Chart Ruler Award (2022) * Best New Hip-Hop Artist (2017–present) * R&B Song of the Year (2016–present) * R&B Artist of the Year (2016–present) * R&B Album of the Year (2017–present) * Best New R&B Artist (2017–present) * Latin Song of the Year (2016–present) * Latin Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Latin Album of the Year (2017–present) * Best New Latin Artist (2017–present) * Regional Mexican Song of the Year (2016–present) * Regional Mexican Artist of the Year (2016–present) * Producer of the Year (2017–present) * Songwriter of the Year (2019) * Best Fan Army (2014–present) * Best Lyrics (2014–present) * Best Cover Song (2016–present) *Best Music Video
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(2017–present)
* Social Star Award (2017–present)
* Cutest Musician Pet (2018–present)
* Best Solo Breakout (2017–present)
* Song That Left Us Shook (2019)
* Favorite Tour Photographer (2019)
* Best Tour (2016–present)
* Label of the Year (2017–present)
* Most Thumbed-Up Song of the Year (2017–present)
* Most Thumbed-Up Artist of the Year (2017–present)
Past award categories
* Best Song from a Movie (2016–2017) * Best Underground Alternative Band (2017) * Regional Mexican Album of the Year (2017) * Album of the Year (2016) * Biggest Triple Threat (2016) * Most Meme-able Moment (2016) * Artist of the Year (2014–2015) * Hip-Hop/R&B Song of the Year (2014–2015) * EDM Song of the Year (2014) * Renegade (2015) * Instagram Award (2014) * Best New Regional Mexican Artist (2017–2018) * Best Boy Band (2018) * Best Remix (2018)Special awards
iHeartRadio Innovator Award
The honor is presented to artists for their contribution to popular culture. * 2014:Pharrell Williams
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* 2015: Justin Timberlake
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* 2016: U2
* 2017: Bruno Mars
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* 2018: Chance the Rapper
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* 2019: Alicia Keys
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iHeartRadio Icon Award
* 2018:Bon Jovi
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* 2021: Elton John
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* 2022: Jennifer Lopez
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Artist of the Decade
* 2019:Garth Brooks
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Fangirls Award
* 2018:Camila Cabello
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* 2019: Halsey
Young Influencer
* 2014:Ariana Grande
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Multiple wins and nominations
Most wins (as of 2022) Most nominations (as of 2022)Performances
See also
*iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards
The iHeartRadio MMVAs were an annual awards show broadcast on Much to honour the year's best music videos that was last held in 2018.
Originally debuting in 1990 as the Canadian Music Video Awards, the awards were renamed in 1995 to the MuchMu ...
* iHeartRadio Music Festival
The iHeartRadio Music Festival is a two-day music concert festival held every year in September since 2011 by iHeartRadio along the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
From 2011 to 2015, the festival was held at the MGM Grand ...
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