Tonight (March 17th) saw the official awards ceremony for the 2025 ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards‘ held at the The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. You may recall that some artists of heavier fare were among the nominees at this year’s awards.
Ultimately Linkin Park‘s highly anticipated comeback album “From Zero” took the ‘Rock Album of the Year’ award, while radio rockers Shinedown scored back to back wins in the ‘Rock Artist of the Year’ and ‘Rock Song of the Year categories’, beating out the likes of thrash titans Metallica, grunge legends Pearl Jam and a country rock collaboration from Falling In Reverse & Jelly Roll.
The winners of tonight’s rock and alternative music category awards can be found below.
Rock Artist of the Year:
- Shinedown (winner)
- Green Day
- Linkin Park
- Metallica
- Pearl Jam
Rock Song of the Year:
- “A Symptom of Being Human” – Shinedown (winner)
- “All My Life” – Falling In Reverse and Jelly Roll
- “Dark Matter” – Pearl Jam
- “Screaming Suicide” – Metallica
- “The Emptiness Machine” – Linkin Park
Rock Album of the Year:
- Linkin Park – “From Zero” (winner)
Alternative Song of the Year:
- “Too Sweet”- Hozier (winner)
- “Dilemma” – Green Day
- “Landmines” – Sum 41
- “Neon Pill”- Cage The Elephant
- “The Emptiness Machine” – Linkin Park
Alternative Artist of the Year:
- Green Day (winner)
- Cage The Elephant
- Linkin Park
- Sum 41
- twenty one pilots
Alternative Album of the Year:
- twenty one pilots – “Clancy”
The full list of nominees and winners for all categories are available at iheartradio.com. On a side note, some fans who tuned into catch Linkin Park on the red carpet on the official broadcast were upset when producers for the broadcast cut away mid-interview to instead showcase footage of rapper GloRilla.
