Grammy Award for Best Rock Album

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,^[1] 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".^[2]

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.

Grammy Award for Best Rock Album
Hackney Diamonds by the Rolling Stones is the most recent recipient.
Awarded for	Quality albums in the rock music genre
Country	United States
Presented by	The Recording Academy
First award	1995
Currently held by	The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (2025)
Website	www.grammy.com

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".^[3]

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.^[4] 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.

Recipients

Inagurual recipient the Rolling Stones.

Alanis Morissette was the first woman to win the award.

Two-time award winner Sheryl Crow.

Carlos Santana of the 2000 award-winning band Santana.

Two-time award-winning band U2, performing during the Joshua Tree Tour 2017.

2003 award winner Bruce Springsteen, performing in 2008.

2009 winners Coldplay.

Two-time award-winning band Muse.

2015 winner Beck.

Two-time award-winning band Cage the Elephant.

2024 winner Paramore, the first female-fronted band to win the award.

Year[I]	Winners	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1995	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge	Pearl Jam – Vs. R.E.M. – Monster Soundgarden – Superunknown Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Sleeps with Angels	[5]
1996	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	Chris Isaak – Forever Blue Pearl Jam – Vitalogy Tom Petty – Wildflowers Neil Young – Mirror Ball	[6]
1997	Sheryl Crow	Sheryl Crow	Dave Matthews Band – Crash No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom Bonnie Raitt – Road Tested Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Broken Arrow	[7]
1998	John Fogerty	Blue Moon Swamp	Aerosmith – Nine Lives Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape The Rolling Stones – Bridges to Babylon U2 – Pop	[8]
1999	Sheryl Crow	The Globe Sessions	Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets John Fogerty – Premonition Garbage – Version 2.0 Hole – Celebrity Skin	[9]
2000	Santana	Supernatural	Melissa Etheridge – Breakdown Limp Bizkit – Significant Other Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Echo	[10]
2001	Foo Fighters Adam Kasper & Foo Fighters (producers) Adam K asper (engineer/mixer)	There Is Nothing Left to Lose	Bon Jovi – Crush Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season No Doubt – Return of Saturn Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles	[11]
2002	U2 Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois (producers)	All That You Can't Leave Behind	Ryan Adams – Gold Aerosmith – Just Push Play PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory	[12]
2003	Bruce Springsteen Brendan O'Brien (producer) Brendan O'Brien & Nick Didia (engineers/mixers)	The Rising	Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel Sheryl Crow – C'mon, C'mon Robert Plant – Dreamland Tonic – Head on Straight	[13]
2004	Foo Fighters David Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Nick Raskulinecz & Chris Shiflett (producers) Jim Scott (engineer/mixer)	One by One	Audioslave – Audioslave Evanescence – Fallen Matchbox Twenty – More Than You Think You Are Nickelback – The Long Road	[14]
2005	Green Day Rob Cavallo & Green Day (producers) Chris Lord-Alge & Doug McKean (engineers/mixers)	American Idiot	Elvis Costello and the Imposters – The Delivery Man Hoobastank – The Reason The Killers – Hot Fuss Velvet Revolver – Contraband	[15]
2006	U2 Steve Lillywhite (producer)	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	Coldplay – X&Y Foo Fighters – In Your Honor The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang Neil Young – Prairie Wind	[16]
2007	Red Hot Chili Peppers Rick Rubin (producer) Ryan Hewitt, Mark Linett & Andrew Scheps (engineers/mixers)	Stadium Arcadium	John Mayer Trio – Try! Tom Petty – Highway Companion The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers Neil Young – Living with War	[17]
2008	Foo Fighters Gil Norton (producer) Adrian Busbhy (engineer/mixer)	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	Daughtry – Daughtry John Fogerty – Revival Bruce Springsteen – Magic Wilco – Sky Blue Sky	[18]
2009	Coldplay Markus Dravs, Brian Eno & Rik Simpson (producers)	Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	Kid Rock – Rock n Roll Jesus Kings of Leon – Only by the Night Metallica – Death Magnetic The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely	[19]
2010	Green Day Butch Vig & Green Day (producers) Chris Dugan & Chris Lord-Alge (engineers/mixers)	21st Century Breakdown	AC/DC – Black Ice Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood – Live from Madison Square Garden Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King U2 – No Line on the Horizon	[20]
2011	Muse Muse (producers) Adrian Bushby & Mark " Spike" Stent (engineers/mixers)	The Resistance	Jeff Beck – Emotion & Commotion Pearl Jam – Backspacer Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Mojo Neil Young – Le Noise	[21]
2012	Foo Fighters Butch Vig (producer) James Brown & Alan Moulder (engineers/mixers)	Wasting Light	Jeff Beck – Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown Red Hot Chili Peppers – I'm with You Wilco – The Whole Love	[22]
2013	The Black Keys Danger Mouse & The Black Keys (producers) Tchad Blake & Kennie Takahashi (engineers/mixers)	El Camino	Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto Muse – The 2nd Law Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball Jack White – Blunderbuss	[23]
2014	Led Zeppelin Dick Carruthers & Jim Parsons (producers) John Catlin, Alan Moulder & Tim Summerhayes (engineers/mixers)	Celebration Day	Black Sabbath – 13 David Bowie – The Next Day Kings of Leon – Mechanical Bull Queens of the Stone Age – ...Like Clockwork Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill	[24]
2015	Beck Beck Hansen (producer) Drew Brown, Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Florian Lagatta, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano (engineers/mixers)	Morning Phase	Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams The Black Keys – Turn Blue Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye U2 – Songs of Innocence	[25]
2016	Muse Robert John "Mutt" Lange & Muse (producers)	Drones	James Bay – Chaos and the Calm Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi Highly Suspect – Mister Asylum Slipknot – .5: The Gray Chapter	[26]
2017	Cage the Elephant Dan Auerbach (producer) Colin Dupuis & Tom Elmhirst (engineers/mixers)	Tell Me I'm Pretty	Blink-182 – California Gojira – Magma Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor Weezer – Weezer	[27]
2018	The War on Drugs Shawn Everett (engineer/mixer)	A Deeper Understanding	Mastodon – Emperor of Sand Metallica – Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Nothing More – The Stories We Tell Ourselves Queens of the Stone Age – Villains	[28]
2019	Greta Van Fleet Herschel Boone, Al Sutton & Marlon Young (producers) Al Sutton (engineer/mixer)	From the Fires	Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog Fall Out Boy – Mania Ghost – Prequelle Weezer – Pacific Daydream	[29]
2020	Cage the Elephant Rob Cohen & John Hill (producers) Rob Cohen, Tom Elmhirst & Jeremy Ferguson (engineers/mixers)	Social Cues	Bring Me the Horizon – Amo The Cranberries – In the End I Prevail – Trauma Rival Sons – Feral Roots	[30]
2021	The Strokes Rick Rubin (producer) Jason Lader (engineer/mixer)	The New Abnormal	Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka Grace Potter – Daylight Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury	[31]
2022	Foo Fighters Greg Kurstin & Foo Fighters (producers) Julian Burg, Greg Kurstin, Alex Pasco, Mark "Spike" Stent & Darrell Thorp (engineers/mixers)	Medicine at Midnight	AC/DC – Power Up Black Pumas – Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A Chris Cornell – No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 Paul McCartney – McCartney III	[32]
2023	Ozzy Osbourne Andrew Watt (producer) Paul LaMalfa & Alan Moulder (engineers/mixers)	Patient Number 9	The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If Idles – Crawler Machine Gun Kelly – Mainstream Sellout Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa	[33]
2024	Paramore Carlos de la Garza (producer) Manny Marroquin & Tam Harriet	This Is Why	Foo Fighters – But Here We Are Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher Metallica – 72 Seasons Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman...	[34]
2025	The Rolling Stones producers, engineers and mixers tbd	Hackney Diamonds	The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards Fontaines D.C. – Romance Green Day – Saviors Idles – Tangk Pearl Jam – Dark Matter Jack White – No Name	[35]

^{^[I]} Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

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 Matchbox Twenty No Doubt The Raconteurs Ryan Adams Weezer Wilco