Kendrick cleans up
Kendrick Lamar picked up multiple honors at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards alongside Taylor Swift and Alex Warren, reinforcing his industry momentum this awards season. The wins keep him in the headlines even as album and single news remains scarce this cycle. (news.pollstar.com)
Kendrick Lamar took home Hip‑Hop Album of the Year for GNX and Hip‑Hop Song of the Year for “luther” (with SZA) at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards. (iheart.com)) He entered the show with five nominations — including Artist of the Year, Hip‑Hop Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Collaboration and Hip‑Hop Song of the Year — per the awards’ nominees release and trade reporting. (iheart.com)) “luther,” Lamar and SZA’s collaboration, logged a 13‑week consecutive run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during 2025 before the iHeart win, one of the longest No. 1 stretches for a hip‑hop single. (billboard.com)) GNX debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with about 319,000 album‑equivalent units in its first tracking week, a figure cited repeatedly in chart coverage ahead of the awards. (billboard.com)) Those two wins represented conversions from five nominations at the March 26 ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, a show that bases many categories on iHeartRadio’s most‑played songs and artists from 2025. (iheart.com))
