Lady Gaga to Receive Innovator Award, Scores 3 Nominations at 2025 iHeartRadio Awards

In addition to her three nominations, Lady Gaga will receive iHeartRadio's Innovator Award at their upcoming award ceremony on March 17, 2025. 

In a press release, iHeartRadio deemed Gaga "the true definition of a modern day artist innovator."

"Few artists in modern history have taken creative risks with the level of success of Gaga. ... Gaga has created music that topped the charts for years at multiple formats, while architecting groundbreaking tours and delivering powerful and versatile performances in film and TV," wrote iHeartRadio's Taylor Fields. 

In the words of @ladygaga: talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before.

We can't wait to honor her with the Innovator Award at this year's #iHeartAwards! pic.twitter.com/vVp9vVsAiL

— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) January 22, 2025

Gaga is the ninth person to receive this honor, joining the likes of Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.

In addition to the Innovator Award, Gaga is nominated in three categories at this year's ceremony. "Die With a Smile," her Billboard Hot 100-topping collaboration with Bruno Mars, is nominated in the Best Collaboration and Best Music Video categories. 

"GAGA Chromatica Ball," Gaga's concert film special that debuted on Max last May, is nominated for the Favorite On Screen award, among other concert and musician documentaries. 

Best Music Video and Favorite On Screen are socially voted categories, meaning fans are able to vote for their top picks. Click here to cast your votes. 

This year's nominations bring Gaga's total iHeartRadio nominations to 14. She won two awards at previous ceremonies: Best Song from a Movie ("Til it Happens to You," 2016) and Song That Left Us Shook ("I'll Never Love Again," 2019). 

Catch the award ceremony at 8 p.m. EST on Monday, March 17, airing on FOX.