The 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards will be held on March 17, 2025, and the nominees were recently announced.
Across the categories, which include multiple K-Pop specific, various artists earned nominations for their work over the last year. First up, in the categories that fans can vote on is the award for “Favorite K-Pop Dance Challenge.”
The nominees are aespa‘s “Supernova,” ATEEZ‘s “Work,” ENHYPEN‘s “XO (If You Say Yes),” ILLIT‘s “Magnetic,” aespa Karina‘s “Up,” KATSEYE‘s “Touch,” KISS OF LIFE‘s “Sticky,” LE SSERAFIM‘s “Smart,” SEVENTEEN‘s “Maestro,” and TXT Yeonjun‘s “Gum.”
In the general categories, BTS‘s Jimin earned a nomination in the “Best Lyrics” category for “Who,” and BLACKPINK‘s Rosé and Lisa each earned a nomination for “Best Music Video” for “APT.” and “Rockstar,” respectively.
BTS’s Jungkook and Jimin also earned a “Favorite On Screen” nomination for their reality show Are You Sure?! KATSEYE also was nominated in this category for their show Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE.
In the non-voting categories, “Best New K-Pop” nominees included BABYMONSTER, BADVILLAIN, ILLIT, NCT WISH, and TWS.
“K-Pop Song Of The Year” also has five nominees: “Chk Chk Boom” by Stray Kids, “Magnetic” by ILLIT, “Supernova” – aespa, “Who”- Jimin, and “XO (Only If You Say Yes)” by ENHYPEN.
Finally, aespa, ATEEZ, ENHYPEN, Jimin, and Lisa earned nominations for “K-Pop Artist Of The Year.”
As with all award show nominations, some fans have expressed their feelings that their favorite art was excluded from a category. Many fans of Stray Kids believe the group should have earned a nomination for “K-Pop Artist of The Year,” citing the group’s chart performance and sales.
I’m so tired of Straykids getting robed ..no hate to these groups but none of Them is even close to their US popularity, sales, or streams but they get a nomination and skz don’t how does this makes sense ??? https://t.co/87V7Skmuoe
— 𐙚᭄ (@_lyneho) January 22, 2025
I would love to know what the criteria was. How come a group with 2x BB hot 100 entries in a single year, 2x BB #1 albums & the only one to enter Global Spotify charts is not in here?
Before u speak, at least admit that this is unfair. Let everyone be nominated in a fair way. https://t.co/DPX9EHVQfm
— Anessa Bang – HOP 合💦★OT8★ mom of a STAYcat (@staanessasworld) January 22, 2025
skz not being nominated, does this make sense?? https://t.co/k6r3kM3BmN pic.twitter.com/TbePB4vZ2y
— hyunyuni 合࿐ (@stay_hyunyuni) January 22, 2025
Voting for categories can be done on the iHeart Radio Awards website up to 100 times a day.
