American Music Award for Favorite Rock Artist

The American Music Award for Favorite Rock Artist has been awarded since 1995. Years reflect the year in which the awards were presented, for works released in the previous year (until 2003 onward when awards were handed out on November of the same year). The all-time winner in this category is Linkin Park with 6 wins, they are also the most nominated act with 9 nominations.

American Music Awards for Favorite Rock Artist
Twenty One Pilots is the most recent recipient
Country	United States
Presented by	American Music Awards
First award	1995
Currently held by	Twenty One Pilots
Most wins	Linkin Park (6)
Most nominations	Linkin Park (9)
Website	theamas.com

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Artist	Ref
1995 (22nd)
	Counting Crows	[1]
	Green Day
	Nine Inch Nails
1996 (23rd)
	Pearl Jam	[2]
	Green Day
	Nine Inch Nails
1997 (24th)
	The Smashing Pumpkins	[3]
	Bush
	Stone Temple Pilots
1998 (25th)
	Bush	[4]
	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
	Sublime
1999 (26th)
	Pearl Jam	[citation needed]
	Green Day
	Third Eye Blind

2000s

Year	Artist	Ref
2000 (27th)
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	[5]
	Kid Rock
	Limp Bizkit
2001 (28th)
	Creed	[citation needed]
	Limp Bizkit
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
2002 (29th)
	Limp Bizkit	[citation needed]
	Linkin Park
	Staind
2003 (30th)
	Creed	[6]
	Linkin Park
	System of a Down
2003 (31st)
	Linkin Park	[7]
	Coldplay
	Metallica
2004 (32nd)
	Linkin Park	[8]
	Incubus
	Jet
2005 (33rd)
	Green Day	[9]
	Coldplay
	System of a Down
2006 (34th)
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	[10]
	Nickelback
	Pearl Jam
2007 (35th)
	Linkin Park	[11]
	My Chemical Romance
	The White Stripes
2008 (36th)
	Linkin Park	[12]
	Coldplay
	Foo Fighters
2009 (37th)
	Green Day	[13]
	Kings of Leon
	Shinedown

2010s

Year	Artist	Ref
2010 (38th)
	Muse	[14]
	Phoenix
	Vampire Weekend
2011 (39th)
	Foo Fighters	[15]
	The Black Keys
	Mumford & Sons
2012 (40th)
	Linkin Park	[16]
	The Black Keys
	Gotye
2013 (41st)
	Imagine Dragons	[17]
	The Lumineers
	Mumford & Sons
2014 (42nd)
	Imagine Dragons	[18]
	Bastille
	Lorde
2015 (43rd)
	Fall Out Boy	[19]
	Hozier
	Walk the Moon
2016 (44th)
	Twenty One Pilots	[20]
	Coldplay
	X Ambassadors
2017 (45th)
	Linkin Park	[21]
	Imagine Dragons
	Twenty One Pilots
2018 (46th)
	Panic! at the Disco	[22]
	Imagine Dragons
	Portugal. The Man
2019 (47th)
	Billie Eilish	[23]
	Panic! at the Disco
	Imagine Dragons

2020s

Year	Artist	Ref
2020 (48th)
	Twenty One Pilots	[24]
	Billie Eilish
	Tame Impala
2021 (49th)
	Machine Gun Kelly
	AJR
	All Time Low
	Foo Fighters
	Glass Animals
2022 (50th)
	Machine Gun Kelly
	Imagine Dragons
	The Lumineers
	Måneskin
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
2025 (51th)
	Twenty One Pilots	[25]
	Hozier
	Linkin Park
	Pearl Jam
	Zach Bryan

Category facts

Multiple wins

6 wins Linkin Park 3 wins Twenty One Pilots

2 wins Creed Green Day Imagine Dragons Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers Machine Gun Kelly

Multiple nominations

9 nominations Linkin Park 5 nominations Green Day Imagine Dragons 4 nominations Coldplay Pearl Jam Twenty One Pilots 3 nominations Foo Fighters Limp Bizkit Red Hot Chili Peppers

2 nominations Billie Eilish The Black Keys Bush Creed Hozier Mumford & Sons Nine Inch Nails Panic! at the Disco System of a Down