To no one's surprise, Taylor Swift won artist of the year at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards held on Monday (April 1) at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. (Here's the full list of winners.) Swift previously won the award in 2015. In 2016 and 2018, Swift won female artist of the year before iHearts permanently switched to gender-neutral categories last year.
Swift, who accepted her awards in a video message, won a total of six awards on the night, matching last year when she set a new record for most wins in one night by a female artist. Drake is the overall overnight leader. It won seven awards in 2017.
Swift's other five awards are for pop artist of the year, tour of the year for The Eras tour and in three socially voted categories — favorite tour style, best lyrics for “Is It Over Now?” and TikTok bop of the year for “Cruel Summer.” These six awards extend her lead as the artist with the most iHeartRadio Awards. He is now 25.
This is Swift's fourth win for Best Lyrics. He previously won for “Anti-Hero,” “All Too Well” and “Blank Space.” Many consider Swift to be the leading songwriter of her generation. She has amassed seven Grammy nominations for song of the year, more than anyone else in history (though surprisingly she has yet to win in that category).
SZA and Peso Pluma each won four awards on the night, sweeping all available awards in their home genres, R&B and Regional Mexican, respectively. Jelly Roll, Morgan Wallen, Karol G and Jung Kook won two awards each.
Since Swift's wins were so expected, here's a closer look at seven other record-setting artists at the 2024 iHearts.
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SZA
SZA won three awards in the R&B field – artist of the year, album of the year for warning sign and Song of the Year for “Snooze.” Her fourth win was in the all-genre Song of the Year category for “Kill Bill.”
This is the third year in a row that a female solo artist has won song of the year. Dua Lipa won it in 2022 for 'Levitating'. Swift won last year for “Anti-Hero.” In a strange twist, “Kill Bill” beat Miley Cyrus' “Flowers” in that category, yet “Flowers” beat “Kill Bill” for pop song of the year. (Perhaps it's not so surprising. Voters might say that “Kill Bill” is a great uncategorizable record, but “Flowers” is an unsurpassed pure pop smash.)
“Kill Bill” and “Flowers” also competed for record of the year at the Grammys, with Cyrus' smash winning there. Only two of the iHeart Song of the Year winners also won the Grammy for Record of the Year – Adele's “Hello” and Lizzo's “Truth Hurts.”
This is the second year in a row that SZA has won R&B Artist of the Year. She is the second artist to win twice in the category, following HER, the winner in 2020 and 2021. It is also the second year in a row that SZA has won R&B Song of the Year. He won last year for 'I Hate U'. SZA and Chris Brown are the only artists to win the category two years in a row.
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Pluma peso
Peso Pluma swept all four awards in the Regional Mexico category – Artist of the Year, Best New Artist, album of the Year for Genesis and song of the year for “Ella Baila Sola”, a collaboration with Eslabon Armado.
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Drake
The superstar won hip-hop artist of the year for a record sixth time. He previously won in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023. No other artist has won in the category more than once.
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Foo Fighters
The veteran band won rock artist of the year for a record third time. The band previously won in 2016 and 2022. Disturbed are the only other winners in this category. They won in 2017 and 2020.
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Victoria Monet
The writer-turned-artist, who won the Grammy for Best New Artist on Feb. 4, won Best New R&B Artist. And in a sign of how competitive this Grammy race has been, four of the artists who lost to Monét at the Grammys won here in other categories. Jelly Roll won best new artist in both pop and country. Noah Kahan won best new rock/alternative artist. Ice Spice won best new hip-hop artist. and Gracie Abrams won the socially voted social star award.
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Carol G
The Colombian superstar won two awards in the Latin Pop/Urban category – Artist of the Year and album of the Year for Mañana Será Bonito. She is the first woman to win in each category. Mañana Será Bonito It made history as the first all-Hispanic album by a female artist to top the Billboard 200 and the first album by a female artist to win the Grammy for Best Urbana Music album.
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BTS fans and solo stars
BTS Army won Fan Favorite Army for the seventh year in a row. And three members of that supergroup, which is currently on hiatus, won in other categories. Jung Kook won two awards – K-pop Artist of the Year and Best Music Video for “Seven,” featuring Latto. V won Favorite Debut album for Stand. And J-Hope won favorite for screen j-hope/IN THE BOX.
BTS had won best music video for the past four years in a row, for “Boy With Luv” (with Halsey), “Dynamite,” “Butter” and “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment). This gives Jung Kook a piece of this prize for five consecutive years.
from our partners at https://www.billboard.com/lists/2024-iheartradio-music-awards-record-setters-taylor-swift-peso-pluma-sza/