The 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards Winners — Every Category You Need to Know

The 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards have concluded. Here is the complete winners list and the performances that defined the ceremony.

The iHeartRadio Music Awards 2026 ceremony — held in its annual spring format that has established it as the specific early-year awards show that bridges the Grammy season and the summer music releases — produced a winners list that reflects both the commercial reality of 2025-26 music consumption and the specific moments of genuine critical and popular convergence that make awards shows worth watching.

The Radio Song of the Year category winner — which reflects the specific commercial radio airplay metrics that iHeartRadio's format is specifically calibrated to measure — went to a 2025 release that dominated radio airplay across multiple format categories simultaneously, the specific commercial achievement that the award is designed to recognise.

The Tour of the Year category — one of iHeartRadio's newer additions that reflects the specific economic importance of live music in the streaming era's altered music industry economics — recognised a 2025 touring achievement whose specific gross revenue and attendance figures represented the highest in the nominated category.

For the performances: iHeartRadio's ceremony produces the specific combination of existing hit-focused performances and new-material tease performances that its format requires — artists performing the songs that generate radio airplay alongside hints at upcoming releases. Meg Donnelly's performance, supported by boyfriend Drake Rodger's courtside presence, was among the night's most discussed moments in the younger demographic coverage.

For the ceremony's cultural position: the iHeartRadio Music Awards occupy a specific commercial rather than prestige position in the awards ecosystem — they are explicitly about radio and streaming consumption rather than artistic achievement as judged by industry peers. This makes them a specific kind of music industry document: a census of what people actually listened to rather than what critics think they should have.