2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards

The 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards will be held on March 5, 2017 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The list of nominations was announced on January 3, 2017. Drake leads the nominations with twelve categories, followed by The Chainsmokers with eleven.

iHeartRadio Music Awards is a music awards show founded by iHeartRadio in 2014 to recognize the most popular artists and music over the past year as determined by the network’s listeners. It rewards the music that was heard throughout the year across iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio digital music platform. The inaugural edition was held on May 1, 2014 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and was broadcast live on NBC. The fourth edition will be held on March 5, 2017 and aired on TBS, TNT and truTV. The trophy is manufactured by the New York firm Society Awards.

iHeartRadio is an Internet radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. Founded in April 2008 as the website iheartmusic.com, as of 2015 iHeartRadio functions both as a music recommender system and as a radio network that aggregates audio content from over 800 local iHeartMedia radio stations across the United States, as well as from hundreds of other stations and from various other media. iHeartRadio is available online, via mobile devices, and on select video-game consoles.

iHeartRadio was ranked No. 4 on AdAge’s Entertainment A-List in 2010. Since 2011, they hold the iHeartRadio Music Festival. In 2014, iHeartRadio started an awards show titled iHeartRadio Music Awards and regularly produces concerts in Los Angeles and New York though the iHeartRadio Theater locations.

INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 03: The stage at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum on April 3, 2016 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for iHeartRadio / Turner)

Nominees