Grammy award for Best Rock Album - wikipedia Grammy award for Best Rock Album Grammy Award for Best Rock Album Awarded for Quality albums in the rock music genre Country United States Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences First awarded 1995 Last awarded 2018 Currently held by The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding ( 2018 ) Website grammy.com 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 National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences 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 ''. Since 1996, award recipients have often included the producers, engineers, and / or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. The band Foo Fighters holds the record for the most wins in this category, with four. Two - time winners include Sheryl Crow, Green Day, U2, and Muse. Foo Fighters and Neil Young hold the record for the most nominations, with six. Young also holds the record for the most nominations without a win. Contents 1 Recipients 2 Artists with multiple wins 3 Artists with multiple nominations 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Recipients Two - time award - winning band Muse Two - time award winner Sheryl Crow Carlos Santana of the 2000 award - winning band Santana Four - time award - winning band Foo Fighters Two - time award - winning band U2, performing during the Joshua Tree Tour 2017 2003 award winner Bruce Springsteen, performing in 2008 Chris Martin of the 2009 award - winning band Coldplay Year Performing artist ( s ) Work Nominees Ref. 1995 The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge ! Voodoo Lounge Pearl Jam -- Vs. R.E.M. -- Monster Soundgarden -- Superunknown Neil Young and Crazy Horse -- Sleeps with Angels Morissette, Alanis Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill ! Jagged Little Pill Chris Isaak -- Forever Blue Pearl Jam -- Vitalogy Tom Petty -- Wildflowers Neil Young -- Mirror Ball 1997 Crow, Sheryl Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow ! Sheryl Crow Dave Matthews Band -- Crash No Doubt -- Tragic Kingdom Bonnie Raitt -- Road Tested Neil Young and Crazy Horse -- Broken Arrow 1998 Fogerty, John John Fogerty Blue Moon Swamp ! Blue Moon Swamp Aerosmith -- Nine Lives Foo Fighters -- The Colour and the Shape The Rolling Stones -- Bridges to Babylon U2 -- Pop 1999 Crow, Sheryl Sheryl Crow The Globe Sessions ! The Globe Sessions Dave Matthews Band -- Before These Crowded Streets John Fogerty -- Premonition Garbage -- Version 2.0 Hole -- Celebrity Skin 2000 Santana Supernatural ! Supernatural Melissa Etheridge -- Breakdown Limp Bizkit -- Significant Other Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Californication Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- Echo 2001 Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose ! 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 2002 U2 All That You Ca n't Leave Behind ! All That You Ca n't Leave Behind Ryan Adams -- Gold Aerosmith -- Just Push Play PJ Harvey -- Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Linkin Park -- Hybrid Theory 2003 Springsteen, Bruce Bruce Springsteen The Rising ! The Rising Elvis Costello -- When I Was Cruel Sheryl Crow -- C'mon C'mon Robert Plant -- Dreamland Tonic -- Head on Straight Foo Fighters One by One ! One by One Audioslave -- Audioslave Evanescence -- Fallen Matchbox Twenty -- More Than You Think You Are Nickelback -- The Long Road 2005 Green Day American Idiot ! American Idiot Elvis Costello and the Imposters -- The Delivery Man Hoobastank -- The Reason The Killers -- Hot Fuss Velvet Revolver -- Contraband 2006 U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb ! How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Coldplay -- X&Y Foo Fighters -- In Your Honor The Rolling Stones -- A Bigger Bang Neil Young -- Prairie Wind 2007 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium ! Stadium Arcadium John Mayer Trio -- Try ! Tom Petty -- Highway Companion The Raconteurs -- Broken Boy Soldiers Neil Young -- Living with War 2008 Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace ! Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Daughtry -- Daughtry John Fogerty -- Revival Bruce Springsteen -- Magic Wilco -- Sky Blue Sky 2009 Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends ! 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 Green Day 21st Century Breakdown ! 21st Century Breakdown AC / DC -- Black Ice Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood -- Live from Madison Square Garden Dave Matthews Band -- Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King U2 -- No Line on the Horizon 2011 Muse The Resistance Jeff Beck -- Emotion & Commotion Pearl Jam -- Backspacer Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- Mojo Neil Young -- Le Noise 2012 Foo Fighters 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 2013 The Black Keys El Camino Coldplay -- Mylo Xyloto Muse -- The 2nd Law Bruce Springsteen -- Wrecking Ball Jack White -- Blunderbuss 2014 Led Zeppelin 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 2015 Beck Morning Phase Ryan Adams -- Ryan Adams The Black Keys -- Turn Blue Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- Hypnotic Eye U2 -- Songs of Innocence 2016 Muse Drones James Bay -- Chaos and the Calm Death Cab for Cutie -- Kintsugi Highly Suspect -- Mister Asylum Slipknot --. 5 : The Gray Chapter 2017 Cage the Elephant Tell Me I 'm Pretty Blink - 182 -- California Gojira -- Magma Panic ! at the Disco -- Death of a Bachelor Weezer -- Weezer 2018 The War on Drugs 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 Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year. Artists with multiple wins 4 wins Foo Fighters 2 wins Sheryl Crow Green Day Muse U2 Artists with multiple nominations 7 nominations Neil Young 6 nominations Foo Fighters 5 nominations Tom Petty ( 3 shared with The Heartbreakers ) U2 3 nominations Coldplay Crazy Horse Sheryl Crow John Fogerty Kings of Leon Dave Matthews Band Muse Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers The Rolling Stones Bruce Springsteen 2 nominations Ryan Adams Aerosmith Jeff Beck The Black Keys Elvis Costello Green Day Matchbox Twenty Metallica No Doubt Queens of the Stone Age The Raconteurs Wilco See also Rock music portal List of Grammy Award categories References General `` Past Winners Search ''. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved March 4, 2011. Note : User must select the `` Rock '' category as the genre under the search feature. `` Grammy Awards : Best Rock Album ''. Rock on the Net. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Specific Jump up ^ `` Grammy Awards at a Glance ''. Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved April 24, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Overview ''. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2010. Jump up ^ `` 52nd OEP Category Description Guide '' ( PDF ). National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. p. 2. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on October 27, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` The 37th Grammy Nominations ''. Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. January 6, 1995. p. 3. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` List of Grammy nominees ''. CNN. January 4, 1996. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ Campbell, Mary ( January 8, 1997 ). `` Babyface is up for 12 Grammy awards ''. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ Campbell, Mary ( January 7, 1998 ). `` Rock veterans Dylan, McCartney face off for album of year ''. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Block Communications. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` 1999 Grammy Nominees ''. 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December 8, 2005. p. 1. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` 49th Annual Grammy Awards Winners List ''. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on December 20, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Grammy 2008 Winners List ''. MTV. February 10, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Grammy 2009 Winners List ''. MTV. February 8, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Nominees List ''. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 18, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2010. Jump up ^ `` 53rd Annual Grammy Awards nominees list ''. Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved December 2, 2010. Jump up ^ `` 2011 -- 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners : Pop Field ''. The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011. Jump up ^ `` Grammys 2013 : Winners List ''. Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2017. Jump up ^ `` 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees ''. Grammy Awards. 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