Awards

AND THE iHEART WINNERS ARE...

March 18, 2025
Benson Boone

The 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards returned to L.A.’s Dolby Theatre on Monday night (3/17), celebrating the year’s most-played artists and songs on iHeartRadio stations and its app.

Hosted by LL COOL J, the Fox broadcast featured performances by Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, GloRilla, Gracie Abrams, Kenny Chesney, Muni Long, Nelly and others.

As for the winners, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” was named Song of the Year, while Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft earned Album of the Year and Abrams was crowned Breakthrough Artist of the Year.

SZA became the first artist to win R&B Artist of the Year three times. Jelly Roll followed up last year’s New Country Artist win by claiming Country Artist of the Year. GloRilla and Sabrina Carpenter secured Hip-Hop and Pop Artist of the Year, respectively. Green Day took home its first Alternative Artist of the Year trophy.

Among the night’s special honors, Lady Gaga received the Innovator Award, Mariah Carey was presented with the Icon Award and Nelly took home the Landmark Award. Meanwhile, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was named Tour of the Century.

Swift led the winners with nine trophies, including Artist of the Year for the second consecutive year. Post Malone followed with four wins, two of which he shared with Swift for their hit “Fortnight.” Lady Gaga, Carpenter, Shinedown, Charli xcx, FEID and Peso Pluma each earned two awards.

The executive producers of the iHeartRadio Music Awards are Joel Gallen for Tenth Planet and John SykesTom Poleman and Bart Peters for iHeartMedia.

Peep the full list of winners here.