INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — Singer Taylor Swift was the big winner at the iHeartRadio awards on Sunday (April 3), taking home Album of the Year for her best-selling “1989”, as well as Female Artist of the Year and Best Tour at the iHeartRadio music awards.
Accepting the award for Best Tour for her seven-month “1989 World Tour,” Swift thanked her boyfriend, DJ Calvin Harris, whose given name is Adam Wiles.
“You know, for the first time I had the most amazing person to come home to when the spotlight went out and when the crowds were all gone, so I want to thank my boyfriend Adam for that,” she said.
Harris won his own award for Dance Artist of the Year.
Justin Bieber, who performed at the show, picked up Male Artist of the Year and his song with DJs Skrillex and Diplo “Where Are U Now” was Dance Song of the Year. His fans also won the Best Fan Army award.
Singer Chris Brown performed a medley of his hits and won R&B Artist of the Year.
“As you all can see, I tend to not have a filter sometimes and I go off on a lot of people, but the music stays the same direction — positivity,” he said.
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik performed “Like I Would” from his new album “Mind of Mine,” which debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart.
Singer Selena Gomez won the fan-voted category Biggest Triple Threat, which asked “Which renaissance woman or man has excelled the most at multiple disciplines?”
A special honor was given to rock band U2’s singer Bono and guitarist The Edge — the Innovator Award.
Accepting the award, Bono joked that The Edge was from the future and knew what it would sound like.
“Rock and roll,” The Edge said.
The show was held at the Forum in Inglewood and was broadcast live in the United States on TBS, TNT and truTV as well as on iHeartMedia radio stations.
