Taylor Swift to Make Appearance on iHeartRadio Music Awards Show

Taylor Swift will make an in-person look in 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards program, iHeartMedia and host community Fox introduced Wednesday.

Although she is not going to be collaborating in a performing capability, any stay participation by the world’s largest music star is a notable catch for the printed, provided that Swift has been laying low on public appearances since selling a pair of Disney+ specials in early December. (She did not flip up at this 12 months’s Grammys, though she had no official motive to, since her newest work post-dated that present’s eligibility interval.)

The awards present can be broadcast on Fox from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood March 26, airing stay 8-10 pm ET, and operating tape-delayed in the identical time slot on the west coast. It’ll additionally exit stay on iHeartRadio stations and on the iHeartRadio app.

At the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Swift has a number one 9 nominations, principally for her “The Fate of Ophelia” single but additionally her “The Eras Tour | The End of an Era” streaming particular. These embrace artist of the 12 months, track of the 12 months, pop track of the 12 months, favourite TikTok dance, greatest lyrics, greatest music video, favourite on display and favourite tour model.

Any participation by Swift in an awards program falls into the perennial “they need her more than she needs them” class. Nonetheless, Swift does have a topical motive to companion with iHeart in the intervening time: the recent launch of “Elizabeth Taylor” because the third single from her smash “The Life of a Showgirl” album. The track went out for radio provides earlier this month and made its debut on Billboard’s pop airplay charts this week.

Following the No. 1 success of “Opalite” and “The Fate of Ophelia,” the discharge of “Elizabeth Taylor” to radio marks the primary time Swift has formally launched three singles from an album since she did the identical with 2022’s “Midnights” venture. “Elizabeth Taylor” beforehand peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 the week “Showgirl” got here out, based mostly solely on streaming.

As beforehand introduced, Ludacris will host this 12 months’s present in addition to obtain the 2026 iHeartRadio Landmark Award. Other particular honors embrace Miley Cyrus receiving the iHeartRadio Innovator Award, Alex Warren receiving the iHeartRadio Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award, and John Mellencamp choosing up the iHeartRadio Icon Award.

Performers introduced so far for the present are Ludacris, Warren, Mellencamp, Lainey Wilson, Raye and the first-time teaming of TLC, Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue.

Other personalities booked to make an look on the present embrace Olympic skater Alysa Liu, Sombr, Nicole Scherzinger of the newly semi-reformed Pussycat Dolls, Ne-Yo, Nikki Glaser and Weezer.

Executive producers for the present are Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jeannaé Rouzan-Clay for Jesse Collins Entertainment, John Sykes, Tom Poleman and Bart Peters for iHeartMedia, and Fox Entertainment Studios.