I’m new to Jingleballing. Went to my first show last X-Mas and it was a blast. I mean really, you get to see all the top touring acts in one place in a quick 3 hour span. I was skeptical at first and thought there would be a lot of dead spots, but Hot 99.5 and iHeartRadio did an amazing job of keeping things moving.
This year’s line up isn’t as good as last years, but hey it has Ariana Grande, 5 Seconds of Summer, Calvin Harris, Demi Lovato, OneRepublic, Iggy Azalea, Jason Derulo, Meghan Trainor, Lil Jon, Charli XCX, Jessie J, Kiesza, Rixton, Rita Ora and Shawn Mendes, with special guest host Nick Jonas. You all know how much I love me some Dems Lovats, but this will be my 3rd time seeing her in a year. Sign up on Hot99.5 website to get the code to get your pre-sale on. Press release after the jump.
iHeartMedia will celebrate the holiday season across the nation with its annual iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2014 Tour — the season’s biggest music event, which captures the holiday spirit of the iHeartRadio app with performances by some of the year’s biggest recording artists. The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2014 Tour will stop in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami and Tampa, with additional Jingle Ball concert events in Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta and Columbus.
“The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour has become the marquee annual holiday event in every city on the tour,” said Tom Poleman, president of national programming platforms, iHeartMedia. “iHeartRadio and our radio stations bring the hottest artists in music straight to fans throughout the country every day and the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour brings the biggest artists to our listeners for the most highly anticipated annual holiday music events.”
Each year, iHeartMedia stations across America host Jingle Ball concerts in local cities featuring performances by top recording artists and emerging new talent. Z100’s Jingle Ball in New York will video stream exclusively on Yahoo Live www.yahoo.com/iheartradio for fans nationwide live and broadcast live on iHeartMedia Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) stations across the country on Friday, December 12, at8 p.m. EST as well as be featured as an exclusive nationwide broadcast two hour special on The CW Network on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. EST/PST.
“What started out as a local holiday concert in New York has become a nationwide phenomenon and a global television event,” said John Sykes, president of entertainment enterprises at iHeartMedia. “Fans throughout the country can watch live on Yahoo, listen live on our radio stations and tune into the nationally televised rebroadcast of the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball on The CW Network to experience this year’s amazing performances.”