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".

right|upright|thumb|[[Foo Fighters (pictured in 2017) have won the award more than any other artist or group. They have been nominated for the award a record eight times and won the award a record five times.]]

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

right|upright|thumb|alt=Four performing on a stage.|Inagurual recipient [[the Rolling Stones.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=A woman in a black vest singing and playing an electric guitar.|[[Alanis Morissette was the first woman to win the award.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=A woman in a black vest and jeans holding a microphone on a stage.|Two-time award winner [[Sheryl Crow.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=A man wearing a green shirt and hat, looking down and playing a guitar.|[[Carlos Santana of the 2000 award-winning band Santana.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=Four men performing on a stage in front of a crowd; two are standing at the front of the stage holding guitars, one in the center is holding a microphone, and one is sitting behind a drum set.|Two-time award-winning band [[U2, performing during the Joshua Tree Tour 2017.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=A man in dark clothing standing on a stage while holding a guitar in front of a crowd. Behind him is a man with his arm raised, holding a drum stick and sitting behind a drum set.|[[45th Grammy Awards|2003 award winner Bruce Springsteen, performing in 2008.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=Four men performing on a stage.|[[51st Annual Grammy Awards|2009 winners Coldplay.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=Three men performing on a stage to a crowd of people.|Two-time award-winning band [[Muse (band)|Muse.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=Four men performing on a stage to a crowd of people.|Two-time award-winning band [[Cage the Elephant.]]

right|upright|thumb|alt=A woman and three men on a stage performing.|[[66th Annual Grammy Awards|2024 winner Paramore, the first female-fronted band to win the award.]]

1990s

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! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 1995 <br/>

| Voodoo Lounge

| The Rolling Stones

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| Monster

| R.E.M.

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| Sleeps with Angels

| Neil Young and Crazy Horse

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| Superunknown

| Soundgarden

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| Vs.

| Pearl Jam

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 1996 <br/>

| Jagged Little Pill

| Alanis Morissette

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| Forever Blue

| Chris Isaak

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| Mirror Ball

| Neil Young

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| Vitalogy

| Pearl Jam

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| Wildflowers

| Tom Petty

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 1997 <br/>

| Sheryl Crow

| Sheryl Crow

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| Broken Arrow

| Neil Young and Crazy Horse

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| Crash

| Dave Matthews Band

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| Road Tested

| Bonnie Raitt

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| Tragic Kingdom

| No Doubt

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 1998 <br/>

| Blue Moon Swamp

| John Fogerty

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| Bridges to Babylon

| The Rolling Stones

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| The Colour and the Shape

| Foo Fighters

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| Nine Lives

| Aerosmith

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| Pop

| U2

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 1999 <br/>

| The Globe Sessions

| Sheryl Crow

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| Before These Crowded Streets

| Dave Matthews Band

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| Celebrity Skin

| Hole

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| Premonition

| John Fogerty

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| Version 2.0

| Garbage

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|}

2000s

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2000 <br/>

| Supernatural

| Santana

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| Breakdown

| Melissa Etheridge

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| Californication

| Red Hot Chili Peppers

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| Echo

| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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| Significant Other

| Limp Bizkit

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2001 <br/>

| There Is Nothing Left to Lose

| Foo Fighters

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| The Battle of Los Angeles

| Rage Against the Machine

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| Crush

| Bon Jovi

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| Mad Season

| Matchbox Twenty

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| Return of Saturn

| No Doubt

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2002 <br/>

| All That You Can't Leave Behind

| U2

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| Gold

| Ryan Adams

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| Hybrid Theory

| Linkin Park

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| Just Push Play

| Aerosmith

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| Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

| PJ Harvey

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2003 <br/>

| The Rising

| Bruce Springsteen

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| C'mon, C'mon

| Sheryl Crow

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| Dreamland

| Robert Plant

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| Head on Straight

| Tonic

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| When I Was Cruel

| Elvis Costello

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2004 <br/>

| One by One

| Foo Fighters

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| Audioslave

| Audioslave

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| Fallen

| Evanescence

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| The Long Road

| Nickelback

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| More Than You Think You Are

| Matchbox Twenty

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2005 <br/>

| American Idiot

| Green Day

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| Contraband

| Velvet Revolver

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| The Delivery Man

| Elvis Costello and the Imposters

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| Hot Fuss

| The Killers

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| The Reason

| Hoobastank

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2006 <br/>

| How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

| U2

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| A Bigger Bang

| The Rolling Stones

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| In Your Honor

| Foo Fighters

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| Prairie Wind

| Neil Young

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| X&Y

| Coldplay

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2007 <br/>

| Stadium Arcadium

| Red Hot Chili Peppers

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| Broken Boy Soldiers

| The Raconteurs

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| Highway Companion

| Tom Petty

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| Living with War

| Neil Young

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| Try!

| John Mayer Trio

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2008 <br/>

| Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

| Foo Fighters

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| Daughtry

| Daughtry

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| Magic

| Bruce Springsteen

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| Revival

| John Fogerty

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| Sky Blue Sky

| Wilco

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2009 <br/>

| Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

| Coldplay

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| Consolers of the Lonely

| The Raconteurs

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| Death Magnetic

| Metallica

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| Only by the Night

| Kings of Leon

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| Rock n Roll Jesus

| Kid Rock

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2010s

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! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2010 <br/>

| 21st Century Breakdown

| Green Day

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| Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King

| Dave Matthews Band

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| Black Ice

| AC/DC

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| Live from Madison Square Garden

| Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood

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| No Line on the Horizon

| U2

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2011 <br/>

| The Resistance

| Muse

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| Backspacer

| Pearl Jam

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| Emotion & Commotion

| Jeff Beck

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| Le Noise

| Neil Young

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| Mojo

| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2012 <br/>

| Wasting Light

| Foo Fighters

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| Come Around Sundown

| Kings of Leon

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| I'm with You

| Red Hot Chili Peppers

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| Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul)

| Jeff Beck

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| The Whole Love

| Wilco

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2013 <br/>

| El Camino

| The Black Keys

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| The 2nd Law

| Muse

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| Blunderbuss

| Jack White

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| Mylo Xyloto

| Coldplay

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| Wrecking Ball

| Bruce Springsteen

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=6, style="text-align:center;"| 2014 <br/>

| Celebration Day

| Led Zeppelin

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| 13

| Black Sabbath

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| ...Like Clockwork

| Queens of the Stone Age

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| Mechanical Bull

| Kings of Leon

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| The Next Day

| David Bowie

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| Psychedelic Pill

| Neil Young with Crazy Horse

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2015 <br/>

| Morning Phase

| Beck

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| Hypnotic Eye

| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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| Ryan Adams

| Ryan Adams

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| Songs of Innocence

| U2

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| Turn Blue

| The Black Keys

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2016 <br/>

| Drones

| Muse

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| .5: The Gray Chapter

| Slipknot

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| Chaos and the Calm

| James Bay

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| Kintsugi

| Death Cab for Cutie

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| Mister Asylum

| Highly Suspect

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2017 <br/>

| Tell Me I'm Pretty

| Cage the Elephant

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| California

| Blink-182

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| Death of a Bachelor

| Panic! at the Disco

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| Magma

| Gojira

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| Weezer

| Weezer

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2018 <br/>

| A Deeper Understanding

| The War on Drugs

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| Emperor of Sand

| Mastodon

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| Hardwired... to Self-Destruct

| Metallica

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| The Stories We Tell Ourselves

| Nothing More

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| Villains

| Queens of the Stone Age

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2019 <br/>

| From the Fires

| Greta Van Fleet

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| Mania

| Fall Out Boy

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| Pacific Daydream

| Weezer

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| Prequelle

| Ghost

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| Rainier Fog

| Alice in Chains

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2020s

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! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2020 <br/>

| Social Cues

| Cage the Elephant

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| Amo

| Bring Me the Horizon

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| Feral Roots

| Rival Sons

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| In the End

| The Cranberries

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| Trauma

| I Prevail

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2021 <br/>

| The New Abnormal

| The Strokes

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| Daylight

| Grace Potter

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| A Hero's Death

| Fontaines D.C.

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| Kiwanuka

| Michael Kiwanuka

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| Sound & Fury

| Sturgill Simpson

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2022 <br/>

| Medicine at Midnight

| Foo Fighters

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| Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A

| Black Pumas

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| McCartney III

| Paul McCartney

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| No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1

| Chris Cornell

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| Power Up

| AC/DC

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=6, style="text-align:center;"| 2023 <br/>

| Patient Number 9

| Ozzy Osbourne

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| The Boy Named If

| Elvis Costello and the Imposters

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| Crawler

| Idles

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| Dropout Boogie

| The Black Keys

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| Lucifer on the Sofa

| Spoon

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| Mainstream Sellout

| Machine Gun Kelly

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2024 <br/>

| This Is Why

| Paramore

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| 72 Seasons

| Metallica

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| But Here We Are

| Foo Fighters

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| In Times New Roman...

| Queens of the Stone Age

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| Starcatcher

| Greta Van Fleet

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=7, style="text-align:center;"| 2025 <br/>

| Hackney Diamonds

| The Rolling Stones

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| Dark Matter

| Pearl Jam

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| Happiness Bastards

| The Black Crowes

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| No Name

| Jack White

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| Romance

| Fontaines D.C.

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| Saviors

| Green Day

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| Tangk

| Idles

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|-style="background:#FAEB86;"

! rowspan=5, style="text-align:center;"| 2026 <br/>

| Never Enough

| Turnstile

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| From Zero

| Linkin Park

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| I Quit

| Haim

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| Idols

| Yungblud

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| 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 <small>(3 shared with the Heartbreakers)</small>
  • 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

  • Note: User must select the "Rock" category as the genre under the search feature.

Specific

  • Official site of the Grammy Awards