{"id":498290,"date":"2026-03-27T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498290\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:54:08","slug":"taylor-swift-takes-home-2026-iheartradio-music-award-for-artist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498290\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Takes Home 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award for Artist of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter these wins, Taylor Swift<\/a> must be feeling pretty enchanted.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift accepted the award for Artist of the Year \u2014 as well as six other prizes \u2014 at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards<\/a> on Thursday night (March 26).<\/p>\n

\n\tOlympic gold medal-winning ice skater Alysa Liu presented Swift with five of the awards, including the night\u2019s top prize, and it was a moment of mutual admiration between the Olympian and singer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFirst of all, to receive this award from Alysa,\u201d Swift started her speech. \u201cYou brought me so much happiness and everyone else so much happiness with your performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift then spoke about her dedication to her craft and how much she loves what she does.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love being an artist. I love writing songs more than anything in the world,\u201d Swift said. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t think I was an artist when I first started doing it. It was a hobby. It was a hobby, and then it was my favorite hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cOpalite\u201d singer continued by speaking about what it was like being a child who enjoyed making music. She shared that she would rush home after school to play her guitar and write songs. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was 12 years old, I had the luxury of spending thousands of hours working at my craft, practicing, making mistakes through trial and error, and that was all completely unobserved,\u201d Swift said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift then turned her attention to the musicians in the crowd, referring to them as \u201cambitious, cool, smart, awesome people who have dreams.\u201d She spoke about what it\u2019s like to create in today\u2019s day and age, where feedback is both instant and constant. Then, talking directly to the crowd of artists, she shared a word of advice and her hopes for all of them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf I had one hope for you, I would say that I hope that you get to nurture your hobby and your passion, just between you and that craft, and you give yourself time,\u201d she addressed the audience. \u201cGive yourself time to make mistakes. Give yourself time to hone your craft.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift then concluded her speech with one last bit of wisdom and heartfelt hopes for her peers. \u201cI\u2019m a firm believer that anything you feed your mind, it will internalize,\u201d Swift said. \u201cAnything you feed the Internet, it will attempt to kill, and I don\u2019t want that for your dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the evening, the pop star was also presented with the award for Best Pop Album for The Life of a Showgirl.<\/a> With seven total wins at this year\u2019s ceremony, Swift \u2014 who already held the record for most wins in the awards\u2019 history \u2014 brings her overall number of iHeartRadio Music Awards<\/a> up to 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After these wins, Taylor Swift must be feeling pretty enchanted. Swift accepted the award for Artist of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[150415,96,175281,128,7213,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-498290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-awards-show","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-iheartradio-music-awards","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-music-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}