The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the rock music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by The Recording Academy of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
The award for Best Rock Album was first presented to the band the Rolling Stones in 1995, and the name of the category has remained unchanged since then. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to "vocal or instrumental rock, hard rock or metal albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded material".
The award goes to the artist, producer and engineer/mixer, provided they were responsible for more than 50 percent of playing time on the album. The lead performing artist is the only one who receives an official nomination. Producers and/or engineers/mixers who are responsible for less than 50 percent, as well as the mastering engineer, can apply for a Winners Certificate. Before 2001, only the performing artist received an award.
The band Foo Fighters currently holds the records for both wins and nominations in this award, with five wins and eight nominations overall. Foo Fighters are also the only three-time, four-time, and five-time winners of the award. In the 2000s, the group famously won the award twice in the span of four years, with their albums There is Nothing Left to Lose in 2001 and One by One in 2004.
Two-time winners include Sheryl Crow, Green Day, U2, Cage the Elephant, and Muse. Neil Young holds the record for most nominations without a win, with seven. To date, only three women, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, and Hayley Williams of Paramore have won the award. Paramore became the first female-fronted rock band to win the award, at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.
Recipients
1990s Year Work Artist 1995 Voodoo Lounge The Rolling Stones Monster R.E.M. Sleeps with Angels Neil Young and Crazy Horse Superunknown Soundgarden Vs. Pearl Jam 1996 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Forever Blue Chris Isaak Mirror Ball Neil Young Vitalogy Pearl Jam Wildflowers Tom Petty 1997 Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow Broken Arrow Neil Young and Crazy Horse Crash Dave Matthews Band Road Tested Bonnie Raitt Tragic Kingdom No Doubt 1998 Blue Moon Swamp John Fogerty Bridges to Babylon The Rolling Stones The Colour and the Shape Foo Fighters Nine Lives Aerosmith Pop U2 1999 The Globe Sessions Sheryl Crow Before These Crowded Streets Dave Matthews Band Celebrity Skin Hole Premonition John Fogerty Version 2.0 Garbage
2000s Year Work Artist 2000 Supernatural Santana Breakdown Melissa Etheridge Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers Echo Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Significant Other Limp Bizkit 2001 There Is Nothing Left to Lose Foo Fighters The Battle of Los Angeles Rage Against the Machine Crush Bon Jovi Mad Season Matchbox Twenty Return of Saturn No Doubt 2002 All That You Can't Leave Behind U2 Gold Ryan Adams Hybrid Theory Linkin Park Just Push Play Aerosmith Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea PJ Harvey 2003 The Rising Bruce Springsteen C'mon, C'mon Sheryl Crow Dreamland Robert Plant Head on Straight Tonic When I Was Cruel Elvis Costello 2004 One by One Foo Fighters Audioslave Audioslave Fallen Evanescence The Long Road Nickelback More Than You Think You Are Matchbox Twenty 2005 American Idiot Green Day Contraband Velvet Revolver The Delivery Man Elvis Costello and the Imposters Hot Fuss The Killers The Reason Hoobastank 2006 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb U2 A Bigger Bang The Rolling Stones In Your Honor Foo Fighters Prairie Wind Neil Young X&Y Coldplay 2007 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers Broken Boy Soldiers The Raconteurs Highway Companion Tom Petty Living with War Neil Young Try! John Mayer Trio 2008 Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Foo Fighters Daughtry Daughtry Magic Bruce Springsteen Revival John Fogerty Sky Blue Sky Wilco 2009 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay Consolers of the Lonely The Raconteurs Death Magnetic Metallica Only by the Night Kings of Leon Rock n Roll Jesus Kid Rock
2010s Year Work Artist 2010 21st Century Breakdown Green Day Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King Dave Matthews Band Black Ice AC/DC Live from Madison Square Garden Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood No Line on the Horizon U2 2011 The Resistance Muse Backspacer Pearl Jam Emotion & Commotion Jeff Beck Le Noise Neil Young Mojo Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 2012 Wasting Light Foo Fighters Come Around Sundown Kings of Leon I'm with You Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) Jeff Beck The Whole Love Wilco 2013 El Camino The Black Keys The 2nd Law Muse Blunderbuss Jack White Mylo Xyloto Coldplay Wrecking Ball Bruce Springsteen 2014 Celebration Day Led Zeppelin 13 Black Sabbath ...Like Clockwork Queens of the Stone Age Mechanical Bull Kings of Leon The Next Day David Bowie Psychedelic Pill Neil Young with Crazy Horse 2015 Morning Phase Beck Hypnotic Eye Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Ryan Adams Ryan Adams Songs of Innocence U2 Turn Blue The Black Keys 2016 Drones Muse .5: The Gray Chapter Slipknot Chaos and the Calm James Bay Kintsugi Death Cab for Cutie Mister Asylum Highly Suspect 2017 Tell Me I'm Pretty Cage the Elephant California Blink-182 Death of a Bachelor Panic! at the Disco Magma Gojira Weezer Weezer 2018 A Deeper Understanding The War on Drugs Emperor of Sand Mastodon Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Metallica The Stories We Tell Ourselves Nothing More Villains Queens of the Stone Age 2019 From the Fires Greta Van Fleet Mania Fall Out Boy Pacific Daydream Weezer Prequelle Ghost Rainier Fog Alice in Chains
2020s Year Work Artist 2020 Social Cues Cage the Elephant Amo Bring Me the Horizon Feral Roots Rival Sons In the End The Cranberries Trauma I Prevail 2021 The New Abnormal The Strokes Daylight Grace Potter A Hero's Death Fontaines D.C. Kiwanuka Michael Kiwanuka Sound & Fury Sturgill Simpson 2022 Medicine at Midnight Foo Fighters Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A Black Pumas McCartney III Paul McCartney No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 Chris Cornell Power Up AC/DC 2023 Patient Number 9 Ozzy Osbourne The Boy Named If Elvis Costello and the Imposters Crawler Idles Dropout Boogie The Black Keys Lucifer on the Sofa Spoon Mainstream Sellout Machine Gun Kelly 2024 This Is Why Paramore 72 Seasons Metallica But Here We Are Foo Fighters In Times New Roman... Queens of the Stone Age Starcatcher Greta Van Fleet 2025 Hackney Diamonds The Rolling Stones Dark Matter Pearl Jam Happiness Bastards The Black Crowes No Name Jack White Romance Fontaines D.C. Saviors Green Day Tangk Idles 2026 Never Enough Turnstile From Zero Linkin Park I Quit Haim Idols Yungblud Private Music Deftones
Artists with multiple wins
5 wins Foo Fighters
2 wins Cage the Elephant Sheryl Crow Green Day Muse The Rolling Stones U2
Artists with multiple nominations
8 nominations Foo Fighters
7 nominations Neil Young
5 nominations Tom Petty (3 shared with the Heartbreakers) U2
4 nominations Pearl Jam The Rolling Stones
3 nominations The Black Keys Bruce Springsteen Coldplay Crazy Horse Dave Matthews Band Elvis Costello Green Day John Fogerty Kings of Leon Metallica Muse Queens of the Stone Age Red Hot Chili Peppers Sheryl Crow
2 nominations AC/DC Aerosmith Cage the Elephant Fontaines D.C. Greta Van Fleet Idles Jack White Jeff Beck Linkin Park Matchbox Twenty No Doubt The Raconteurs Ryan Adams Weezer Wilco
References General
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Specific
External links
Official site of the Grammy Awards