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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Olivia Rodrigo, Foo Fighters and Silk Sonic were among the big winners at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards

    The annual ceremony took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (22.03.22) and saw Olivia crowned Best New Pop Artist and Female Artist of the Year, while 'good 4 u' was voted as the TikTok Bop of the Year


    Camila Cabello also won Best Cover Song for her rendition of 'good 4 u'.

    Foo Fighters took home a stack of prizes, including Rock Artist of the Year, Rock Song of the Year for 'Waiting on a War', and Rock Album of the Year for 'Medicine at Midnight'.

    Accepting their Rock Artist of the Year prize, frontman Dave Grohl said via video: "Thank you so much for voting us Best Rock Artist of the Year, iHeartRadio thank you very much. We'd like to thank all our friends and family that we work with. Most of all, the fans and audience that like our music."

    Silk Sonic were named Best Duo of the Year and also took home R&B Song of the Year for 'Leave The Door Open' and R&B Album of the Year for 'An Evening With Silk Sonic'.

    Arguably the biggest prize of the night, Song of the Year, went to Dua Lipa for 'Levitating'.

    Lil Nas X was crowned Male Artist of the Year, and gave an inspiring speech about it being "OK to be delusional when you're chasing your dreams".

    The 22-year-old megastar - who publicly came out as gay in June 2019 -

    said: "I wouldn't be where I am right now, in my life and my career, if I weren't delusional. Believing I could drop out of school and become an international success within a year. It's delusional!

    "Believing that I could come out of the closet in the height of my career ... to think that I could do that would be delusional!"

    Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI scooped two prizes for 'Stay', which was named Best Collaboration and also nabbed the iHeartRadio Chart Ruler Award.

    Elsewhere, Machine Gun Kelly won Alternative Artist of the Year, 2021 'Eurovision' winners Maneskin made Best New Alternative Artist, and Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' scooped Alternative Album of the Year.

    Jennifer Lopez was this year's iHeartRadio Icon Award recipient and Megan Thee Stallion was honoured with the Trailblazer Award.

    The star-studded bash was hosted by LL Cool J and saw performances from the likes of Megan, John Legend, Charlie Puth and Maneskin.

    An abridged list of the winners:

    Song of the year: 'Levitating' - Dua Lipa

    Female artist of the year: Olivia Rodrigo

    Male artist of the year: Lil Nas X

    Best duo/group of the year: Silk Sonic

    Best collaboration: 'Stay' - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber

    Best new pop artist: Olivia Rodrigo

    Alternative artist of the year: Machine Gun Kelly

    Best new alternative artist: Maneskin

    Alternative song of the year: 'Monsters' - All Time Low featuring blackbear

    Alternative Album of the Year: 'Happier Than Ever' - Billie Eilish

    Rock artist of the year: Foo Fighters

    Best new rock artist: Mammoth WVH

    Rock Song of the Year: 'Waiting on a War' - Foo Fighters

    Rock Album of the Year: 'Medicine at Midnight' - Foo Fighters

    Country artist of the year: Luke Combs

    Best new country artist: Lainey Wilson

    Country song of the year: 'If I Didn't Love You' - Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood

    Dance artist of the year: David Guetta

    Hip-Hop artist of the year: Drake

    Hip-Hop Song of the Year: 'What You Know Bout Love' - Pop Smoke

    Hip-Hop Album of the Year: 'The Off-Season' - J. Cole

    R&B Artist of the Year: Jazmine Sullivan

    Best new R&B artist: Giveon

    R&B Song of the Year: 'Leave The Door Open' - Silk Sonic

    R&B Album of the Year: 'An Evening With Silk Sonic', Silk Sonic

    Latin Pop/Reggaeton Artist of the Year: Bad Bunny

    Best new Latin artist: Grupo Firme

    Latin Pop/Reggaeton Album of the Year: Karol G

    Producer of the Year: Finneas

    Songwriter of the Year: Omer Fedi

    iHeartRadio Trailblazer Award: Megan Thee Stallion

    iHeartRadio Chart Ruler Award: 'Stay' - The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber

    Best fan army (socially voted category): #BTSARMY - BTS

    Best music video (socially voted category): 'Butter' - BTS

    Best Lyrics (socially voted category): 'All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)' - Taylor Swift

    TikTok Bop of the Year (socially voted category): 'good 4 u' - Olivia Rodrigo

    Best Comeback Album (socially voted category: '30' - Adele

    © 2025 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

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