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

Universal City Walk ended its summer concert series Monday, with performances by Echosmith and Macy’siHeartRadio Rising Star winner, The Summer Set.

It was a hot Labor Day Monday, but that did not stop the crowds from lining up early in the day. It was Universal’s final free concert of the summer and as showtime drew nearer, more and more people filled the city walk.

Newcomers, Echosmith opened the show with songs from their upcoming debut album, “Talking Dreams.” The band, made up of four siblings: Graham, Sydney, Noah, and Jamie Sierota, are almost completely unknown, but they have a stage presence that rivals the pros. The group managed to show maturity on stage that is absent in many of their musical peers, which is amazing considering they just signed with Warner Bros. Records a year ago. Their ages range from 14-20, but other than their young faces, you wouldn’t even know. Lead singer, Sydney has a voice very reminiscent of Haylee Williams from Paramore, but the band still manages to keep its distinct sound. The audience was feeding off the energy onstage and sang along to many songs, including “Cool Kids,” from theirdebut album.

The Summer Set continued the upbeat tone into their set. The band opened up with “Lightning In a Bottle” from their latest release, “Legendary.” Lead singer, Brian Dales, bounced around on stage in a bow tie throughout the entire 11 song set, never dropping anywhere under excited and happy. While front-man Brian’s energy was infectious, it’s hard to deny drummer Jess Bowen’s talent. Sitting behind four boys, Jess’s energy came through with every hit and proved that girls can drum just as well as any guy.

They performed songs from all of three of their albums, including “Someone Like You,” from their second album, “Everything’s Fine.” The Summer Set, composed of Brian, Jess Bowen on drums, John Gomez on guitar and piano, Stephen Gomez on bass, and Josh Montgomery on guitar, easily translated their album’s feel-good, high energy album into their live set. The audience sang along to every word of every single song, and one fan in particular even made a yellow umbrella sign in homage to the lyrics in the album’s title track, “I’ve spent too many nights watching ‘How I Met Your Mother’ alone. Now I’m searching for my yellow umbrella, hoping I’ll take her home.”

Fans who chose to spend their final days of summer watching The Summer Set (see what we did there) were treated to a couple of surprises. The group performed “The Way We Were” for the first time live. But before that, Brian invited his best friend, Alex Deleon of The Cab, to sing-a-long to “Young,” from their first full length album, “Love Like This,” which led to loud screams from the audience. The show felt like an energy drink buzz, in the best way possible, with every song delivering catchy hooks and choruses. The Summer Set finished off with one of their most well-known hits, “Chelsea.”

Set List:

Lightning in a Bottle

Rescue

Young

Someone Like You

The Way We Were

Someday

Jukebox (Life Goes On)

Boomerang

Maybe Tonight

Legendary

Chelsea