1st iHeartRadio Music Awards

Date

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Location

Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles

Television/Radio coverage

Network

NBC

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The 1st iHeartRadio Music Awards, was the inaugural music award show presented by iHeartMedia's platform iHeartRadio and NBC. The awards were held on May 1, 2014, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The awards show was announced on February 26, 2014. The nominations were compiled by the results of Mediabase charts, listener feedback and digital straming data from the iHeartRadio platform and announced on March 26, 2014.^[1]^[2] The awards recognized the biggest artists and songs of the year. The show was directed by Hamish Hamilton.^[3] The voting took place on iHeartRadio's official webpage except for the "Instagram Award", where voting took place on social network Instagram.^[4]

Rihanna led the nominations with eight and also became the biggest winner of the night with four wins including Artist of the Year and Song of the Year.^[5]

Presenters

Pitbull — Presented Hip-Hop/R&B Song of the Year
Selena Gomez — Presented Tribute of Female Artist
Blake Shelton — Introduced Luke Bryan
Pharrell Williams — Best Collaboration
Adam Lambert — Introduced Bastille
Lionel Richie — Presented Best Lyrics
Ashley Green — Introduced Ed Sheeran
Lil Jon— Introduced Ariana Grande
Jared Leto — Presented Best New Artist
L.A. Reid — Introduced Usher
Mel B — Presented Best Fan Army
Dan Reynolds — Introduced Kendrick Lamar
Jason Reader — Presented iHeartRadio Instagram Award
Hilary Duff — Presented iHeartRadio Young Influencer Award
Joe Manganiello — Presented Alternative Rock Song of the Year
Chester Bennington — Introduced Thirty Seconds To Mars
Sean "Diddy" Combs — Presented Song of the Year
Juanes — Introduced Shakira
Bobby Bones — Presented Country Song of the Year
Shakira — Introduced Blake Shelton
Juicy J — Presented EDM Song of the Year
Gwen Stefani — Presented iHeartRadio Innovator Award
Jennifer Lopez and Ryan Seacrest — Presented Artist of the Year

Performances

Artist(s)	Song(s)
Pitbull G.R.L.	"Wild Wild Love" "Timber"
Luke Bryan	"That's My Kind of Night"
Bastille	"Pompeii"
Ed Sheeran	"The A Team" "Don't"
Ariana Grande	"The Way" "Problem"
Usher	Dance to "Love Never Felt So Good"
Kendrick Lamar	"California Love" "M.A.A.D City"
Thirty Seconds to Mars	"City of Angels"
Shakira	"Empire"
Blake Shelton	"Doin' What She Likes"
Arcade Fire	"Normal Person"
Pharrell Williams	"Come Get It Bae" "Blurred Lines" "Get Lucky" "Happy"