The singer ROSÉ won the categories “Best collaboration” and “K-pop artist of the year”.
During the “iHeart radio music awards 2026” which were held in Los Angeles, United States, last March 26 (local time), ROSÉ won the two categories “Best collaboration” and “K-pop artist of the year” with her duo song with BRUNO MARS “Apt.”.
The “iHeart radio music awards” are an award ceremony organized since 2014 by IHEART RADIO, the largest online broadcaster in the United States, which selects and rewards the most broadcast songs and artists on IHEART RADIO stations and application during the year. ROSÉ added another trophy to the uninterrupted procession of awards for “Apt.” which knows no end.
The duo song with BRUNO MARS “Apt.”, published by ROSÉ in October 2024, shattered various records in music charts around the world. During the “2025 MTV video music awards”, one of the four largest popular music ceremonies in the United States, she won the category “Song of the year”, the equivalent of the grand prize, a first for a K-pop artist, and was also nominated for the first time in K-pop history at the “Grammy awards”, the highest authority in the American musical world, in the main categories “Song of the year” and “Record of the year”.
Moreover, during the prestigious British ceremony “Brit awards”, she became the first and only K-pop artist to be nominated in both the group and solo categories, and once again wrote a page of K-pop history by clinching the honor of the award. Thus, ROSÉ achieved the feat of accomplishing successes in all the most prestigious ceremonies of the English-speaking sphere.
The first full album of ROSÉ “ROSIE“, released in December of the same year, also generated a strong response upon its publication. “ROSIE” became a hot topic thanks to the participation of ROSÉ in the writing and composition of all the songs, and entered at 3rd place on the main Billboard albums chart, the “Billboard 200”, immediately after its release, then remained ranked in the “Billboard 200” for 27 consecutive weeks, simultaneously breaking the records for the best and longest ranking for a female K-pop artist.
Journalist: Shawn
Translator: Shawn
Source: SNS iHeartRadio
