At Mgm Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas This Weekend

Friday September 18, 2015

AUSSIE AUDIENCES CAN WATCH ICONIC MUSIC EVENT STREAMED LIVE IHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL

AT MGM GRAND HOTEL & CASINO IN LAS VEGAS THIS WEEKEND

Jennifer Lopez added to star-studded line-up including Kanye West, Sam Smith, The Who, Coldplay, Demi Lovato, David Guetta, Kenny Chesney, The Weeknd, Tove Lo, Lil Wayne, Fall Out Boy, Disclosure, Hozier, Jason Derulo, Duran Duran, Prince Royce, Diplo, Trey Songz, The Killers, Blake Shelton, Nick Jonas, and Janet Jacksonon the iHeartRadio Music Festival Stage.

Celebrating the fifth year of the iconic music festival, for the first time ever, this star-studded, history-making event will also be available for Australian fans to watch streamed live on the newly launched iHeartRadio Australia site.

See all day one festivalaction hereonSaturday 19th September, from 12pm AEST

While day two of the festival can be seen here on Sunday 20th September, from 12pm AEST

The legendary weekend-long concert event will kick off Friday evening U.S. time , September 18 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena with host Ryan Seacrest, while the Daytime Village will return to the MGM Resorts Village across from the Luxor Hotel and Casino on Saturday, September 19with performances by Demi Lovato, Hozier, Tove Lo, Trey Songz, Walk The Moon, Nick Jonas, Big Sean, Lee Brice, George Ezra, Tori Kelly, Echosmith, James Bay, The Struts, Zella Day and Shawn Mendes.

The iHeartRadio Music Festival will alsoincludeperformances fromthis year'sMacy's iHeartRadio Rising Star winner, Christina Grimmie, as well as other surprise special guests and the kind ofnever-before-imagined collaborationsthat the iHeartRadio Music Festival is known for.

iHeartRadio’s growth in Australia continues with more than 470,000 registered users and is cementing itself as the place that gives fans more of what they love, from their favourite music, and artist interviews and celebrity chats with some of Australia’s most popular radio personalities from ARN’s stable of stations, and stations from all over the world.

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iHeartRadio – 20 million songs, 850,000artists, thousands of liveradio stations

all in one FREE app

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About iHeartMedia:

With 245 million monthly listeners in the U.S., 87 million monthly digital uniques, over 75 million social followers and 196 million monthly consumers of its Total Traffic and Weather Network, iHeartMedia has the largest reach of any radio or television outlet in America. It serves over 150 markets through 858 owned radio stations, and the company’s radio stations and content can be heard on AM/FM, HD digital radio, satellite radio, on the Internet at iHeartRadio.com and on the company’s radio station websites, on the iHeartRadio mobile app, in enhanced auto dashes, on tablets and smartphones, and on gaming consoles. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s digital radio platform, is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 600 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 70 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Facebook. The company’s operations include radio broadcasting, online, mobile, digital and social media, live concerts and events, syndication, music research services and independent media representation.For more company information visit iHeartMedia.com.

About ARN

ARN is the #1FM radio network in Australia and one of the leading broadcasters in the country with ownership or investments in 12 radio stations nationwide. ARN is the leading FM network for the commercially lucrative 25-54 demographic and its brands KIIS, Pure Gold, iHeartRadio, and The Edge96.ONEentertain and influence over four million listeners across Australia.

In 2014 KIIS 1065 was launched with Kyle & Jackie O in Sydney and immediately went to #1FM. In 2015 the KIIS network launched nationally with KIIS 101.1 in Melbourne with Matt Tilley & Jane Hall in Breakfast and Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes & Kate Langbroek in national Drive. The KIIS network now incorporates the Sydney and Melbourne stations, Adelaide’s #1FM Mix102.3, Brisbane’s 97.3FM and Perth’s 96FM.

ARN also launched iHeartRadio, the world’s fastest growing digital service, to the Australian market in 2013 and the platform has had over 500,000 downloads.iHeartRadio is a free, all-in-one digital radio service and live events platform that lets audiences listen to their favouritelive stations across Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Listeners can also create commercial-free custom stations, and find the best audio casts to create personalised daily custom talk stations.

ARN is an APN News & Media company.

About The MGM Garden Arena:

The MGM Grand Garden Arena is home to concerts, championship boxing and premier sporting and special events. The Arena offers comfortable seating for as many as 16,800 with excellent sightlines and state-of-the-art acoustics, lighting and sound. Prominent events to date have included world championship fights between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson as well as Oscar de la Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather and Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez; and concerts by The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, George Strait, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, U2, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Jimmy Buffett and the Barbra Streisand Millennium Concert. The MGM Grand Garden Arena also is home to annual events including Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music Festival, Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Championship, Latin GRAMMY Awards and the Frozen Fury NHL pre-season game hosted by the Los Angeles Kings.

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For further information please contact:

Bec Brown

PH: 0403 052 256

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