16th March 2018Mrs K Shutler

The i heart radio music awards took place on March 11th 2018 in The Forum in Los Angeles. The awards show gathers some of the biggest names in the music industry today to honour them with an award. DJ Khaled and Hailey Baldwin hosted the amazing not to miss show. The awards also had an incredible line-up set to perform. These people included: Camila Cabello , Cardi B, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Charlie Puth and The Backstreet Boys.

Some types of awards given out were, Best Solo Singers, Best Girl/ Boy bands, Best fan army , Breakthrough artist , Latin artist etc. These awards went to:

Song of the Year

  • Shape of you, Ed Sheeran

Female Artist of The Year

  • Taylor Swift

Male Artist of The Year

  • Ed Sheeran 

Best New Artist

 

  • Cardi B

 

Best Duo / Group of The Year

  • Maroon 5

Best Collaboration

  • Something Just Like This, The Chainsmokers and Coldplay

Best Fan Army

  • BTS, BTS Army 

Cutest Musicians Pet

  • Toulouse, Ariana Grande 

Best Boy Band

 

  • BTS

 

Best Remix

  • Little Mix & CNCO 

That night, Pop-sensation Taylor Swift, premiered her new music video at the award show for her song ‘Delicate’ off her sixth studio album ‘Reputation’. The video was shown after Taylor won the award for best female artist.

BTS were nominated for these awards and won them both! They did not get to attend the awards ceremony in LA for their own reasons, that they may be too busy creating their new album, ‘Face Yourself’. Many people are looking forward to this new album which releases on April 4th.

A new category that was added this years was ‘Cutest Musician’s Pet’ which was won by one of Ariana Grande’s dog Toulouse. Ariana has 8 dogs that she adopts from rescue shelters. Ariana did not attend the award show as she is currently working on her 4th album but she sent in a video of Toulouse saying thank you for the award. Ariana and Toulouse celebrated the award with friends and family with balloons and a cake saying ‘Congratulations Toulouse’!

New popstar, Camila Cabello, performed her hit single ‘Havana’ in style. She won. Later she won an award and made a powerful speech about never giving up on pursuing your dreams. Camila Cabello pursued her dream as a solo pop artist as she used to be in a girl band called ‘Fifth Harmony’ but left the group to make her debut album Camila early this year.

 

Aria and Elisa (Year 8)