iHeartMedia announced the return of its annual iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party to the legendary Fontainebleau Miami Beach on Saturday, May 21, 2016. The 2016 iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party is part of Fontainebleau’s BleauLive concert series and will feature live performances by top artists Flo Rida, DNCE with special guest Hailee Steinfeld, Tinashe, Lukas Graham, Kygo and Jason Derulo, with more special guests to be announced.
The iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party will kick off Saturday afternoon with an all-day pool party featuring sets by iHeartRadio’s house DJs, including Prostyle. The ultimate party weekend will continue on Saturday evening with a live concert event featuring Flo Rida, DNCE with special guest Hailee Steinfeld, Tinashe, Lukas Graham, Kygo and Jason Derulo.
Fans can listen to a special iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party broadcast on iHeartMedia Mainstream Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR), Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio (RCHR) and HOT-AC stations nationwide. For the fourth consecutive year, the iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party will air as an exclusive nationwide 1-hour broadcast special on The CW Network onWednesday, June 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, giving music fans across the country the opportunity to experience the highly anticipated annual event.
To promote the event, iHeartMedia is launching a national on-air and online promotion across its mainstream and rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio and HOT-AC stations. Beginning Monday, April 18, hundreds of iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party packages, which include round-trip airfare, two-night luxury hotel accommodations at Fontainebleau Miami Beach for two and access to all the weekend’s events, will be given away through May 13. One Grand Prize Winner will be chosen to receive a fantasy all-access experience at this year’s Summer Pool Party.
“This is the only time you will have a chance to see some of the biggest performing artists in music performing poolside in front of a very lucky group of fans,” said John Sykes, President of Entertainment Enterprises for iHeartMedia. “If you can’t be there poolside, you can listen live on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide, iHeartRadio.com, CWTV.com or watch all of the can’t-miss moments on the The CW Network.”
“We’re thrilled to bring summer’s hottest party back to where it began—Miami and Fontainebleau Miami Beach,” said Tom Poleman, President of National Programming Group, iHeartMedia. “There’s no better way to kick off the summer than with an unforgettable weekend that connects our listeners with their favorite artists.”
The iHeartRadio Summer Pool Party is part of iHeartMedia’s incredibly successful roster of major concert events, which includes the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the biggest live concert event in radio history, which features more than 20 A-list artists across every music genre on one stage; the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour; the iHeartCountry Festival; the iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina; the iHeart80s Party; and the iHeartRadio Music Awards, which generated 115 billion social media impressions, surpassing the social engagement for both the Grammys and the MTV Video Music Awards.