iHeartRadio Music Awards to Air on NBC

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Yesterday, iHeartRadio announced it would honor the best in various genres of music with it’s first iHeartRadio Music Awards. The show will air on NBC on May 1, 2014. The iHeartRadio Music Awards will include live performances, never-before-seen collaborations, celebrity guest appearances and live award presentations. Votes will be determined by how many times fans have thumbed up favorite songs, created stations, used Shazam to discover music, and posted about favorite artists on Facebook and Twitter.

Each voting category initially features 10 nominees – listeners will then narrow down to five finalists during a four-week period, with the finalists to be announced during a one-hour special live event on March 26, 2014 at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles. Fans will then vote over the next several weeks, to determine the winners in each category.

Check out the list of award categories, as well as nominees (so far) below:

ALT Rock Song of the year:
Come A Little Closer – Cage The Elephant
Do I Wanna Know – Artic Monkeys
Pompeii – Bastille
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
Royals – Lorde
Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood
Demons – Imagine Dragons
Safe And Sound – Capital Cities
Out Of My League – Fitz & The Tantrums
Ways To Go – Grouplove

Song of the Year:
Royals – Lorde
Mirrors – Justin Timberlake
Roar – Katy Perry
Wake Me Up – Avicii f/Aloe Blacc
The Monster – Eminem f/Rihanna
When I Was Your Man – Bruno Mars
Hold On We’re Going Home – Drake f/Majid Jordan
Stay – Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko
Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke f/T.I. & Pharrell
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons

Best Lyrics:
Wrecking Ball – Miley Cyrus
Crooked Smile – J. Cole f/TLC
Royals – Lorde
Just Give Me a Reason – P!nk f/Nate Ruess
Wake Me Up – Avicii f/Aloe Blacc
Same Love – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Mine Would Be You – Blake Shelton
Say Something – A Great Big World
I Love It – Icona Pop
Demons – Imagine Dragons

Country Song of the Year:
Crash My Party – Luke Bryan
It Goes Like This – Thomas Rhett
That’s My Kind of Night – Luke Bryan
Mine Would Be You – Blake Shelton
Runnin’ Outta Moonlight – Randy Houser
Boys Round Here – Blake Shelton
Wagon Wheel – Darius Rucker
Get Your Shine On – Florida-Georgia Line
Highway Don’t Care – Tim McGraw w/Taylor Swift
Night Train – Jason Aldean

Artist of the Year:
Bruno Mars
Rihanna
Maroon 5
Justin Timberlake
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
P!nk
Katy Perry
Imagine Dragons

Robin Thicke
Taylor Swift

EDM Song of the Year:
Wake Me Up – Avicii f/Aloe Blacc
Clarity – Zedd f/Foxes
What It Feels Like – Armin Van Buuren
I Need Your Love – Calvin Harris f/Ellie Goulding
Alive – Krewella
Get Lucky – Daft Punk f/Pharrell
Sweet Nothing – Calvin Harris f/Florence Welch
Summertime Sadness – Lana Del Rey f/Cedric Gervais
Harlem Shake – Baauer
Stay the Night – Zedd f/Hayley Williams

Hip-Hop/R&B Song of the Year:
Pour It Up – Rihanna
Power Trip – J. Cole f/Miguel
Started From The Bottom – Drake
I Luv This S**T – August Alsina
Crooked Smile – J. Cole f/TLC
Hold On We’re Going Home – Drake f/Majid Jordan
Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke f/T.I. & Pharrell
Bad – Wale f/Tiara Thomas
Holy Grail – Jay-Z f/Justin Timberlake
All Me – Drake f/2 Chainz & Big Sean

Best Fan Army:
Justin Bieber
One Direction
Taylor Swift
Demi Lovato
Lady Gaga
Ariana Grande
Katy Perry
Austin Mahone
Miley Cyrus
Rihanna

Best Collaboration:
Wake Me Up – Avicii f/Aloe Blacc
The Monster – Eminem f/Rihanna
Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke f/T.I. & Pharrell
Stay – Rihanna f/Mikky Ekko
Suit & Tie – Justin Timberlake f/Jay-Z
Get Lucky – Daft Punk f/Pharrell
Just Give Me A Reason – P!nk f/Nate Ruess
Holy Grail – Jay-Z f/Justin Timberlake
Hold On We’re Going Home – Drake f/Majid Jordan
Timber – Pitbull f/Ke$ha

Best New Artist:
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Imagine Dragons
Florida Georgia Line
Lumineers
Lorde
Zedd
Capital Cities
Kendrick Lamar
Icona Pop
Passenger

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