The Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections.

Friday Morning Quarterback (better known as FMQB) was a trade magazine which covered the radio and music industries in the United States.

Its coverage included programming, management, promotion, marketing, and airplay for music formatted radio.

The iHeartRadio MMVAs were an annual awards show broadcast on Much to honour the year's best music videos that was last held in 2018.

Loudwire is an American online media magazine that covers news of hard rock and heavy metal artists.

Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets.

Nominations were based on the amount of airplay recording artists receive on radio stations in various formats using chart information compiled by Mediabase.