# MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative has been awarded since 1997.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
    † indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video–winning artist.
    ‡ indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video–nominated artist that same year.
Hayley Williams of Paramore and Lana Del Rey are the only female artists that have won more than once.

### 1990s

| Year | Artist |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | The Prodigy |
| 1997 | Beck ‡ |
| 1997 | Blur ‡ |
| 1997 | Radiohead |
| 1997 | The Verve |

### 2000s

| Year | Artist |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Muse |
| 2004 | Björk |
| 2004 | Franz Ferdinand |
| 2004 | The Hives |
| 2004 | The Prodigy |
| 2005 | |
| 2005 | System of a Down |
| 2005 | Beck |
| 2005 | Bloc Party |
| 2005 | Goldfrapp |
| 2005 | The White Stripes |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Muse |
| 2006 | Arctic Monkeys |
| 2006 | Korn |
| 2006 | The Raconteurs |
| 2006 | System of a Down |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Placebo |
| 2009 | Muse |
| 2009 | Paramore |
| 2009 | The Killers |
| 2009 | The Prodigy |

### 2010s

| Year | Artist |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Paramore |
| 2010 | Arcade Fire |
| 2010 | The Black Keys |
| 2010 | Gorillaz |
| 2010 | Vampire Weekend |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2011 | Arcade Fire |
| 2011 | Arctic Monkeys |
| 2011 | My Chemical Romance |
| 2011 | The Strokes |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Lana Del Rey |
| 2012 | The Black Keys |
| 2012 | Florence + The Machine |
| 2012 | Foster The People |
| 2012 | Jack White |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2013 | Arctic Monkeys |
| 2013 | Fall Out Boy |
| 2013 | Franz Ferdinand |
| 2013 | Paramore |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2014 | Arcade Fire |
| 2014 | Lana Del Rey |
| 2014 | Lorde |
| 2014 | Paramore |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | Lana Del Rey |
| 2015 | Björk |
| 2015 | Fall Out Boy |
| 2015 | Florence and the Machine |
| 2015 | Twenty One Pilots |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Twenty One Pilots |
| 2016 | Kings of Leon |
| 2016 | Radiohead |
| 2016 | Tame Impala |
| 2016 | The 1975 |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2017 | Imagine Dragons |
| 2017 | Lana Del Rey |
| 2017 | Lorde |
| 2017 | The xx |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Panic! at the Disco |
| 2018 | Fall Out Boy |
| 2018 | The 1975 |
| 2018 | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2018 | Twenty One Pilots |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | FKA Twigs |
| 2019 | Lana Del Rey |
| 2019 | Solange |
| 2019 | Twenty One Pilots |
| 2019 | Vampire Weekend |

### 2020s

| Year | Artist |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Hayley Williams |
| 2020 | Blackbear |
| 2020 | FKA Twigs |
| 2020 | Machine Gun Kelly † |
| 2020 | Twenty One Pilots ‡ |
| 2020 | The 1975 ‡ |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Yungblud |
| 2021 | Halsey |
| 2021 | Lorde |
| 2021 | Machine Gun Kelly † |
| 2021 | Twenty One Pilots ‡ |
| 2021 | Willow ‡ |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Gorillaz |
| 2022 | Imagine Dragons ‡ |
| 2022 | Panic! At The Disco ‡ |
| 2022 | Tame Impala |
| 2022 | Twenty One Pilots ‡ |
| 2022 | Yungblud |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Lana Del Rey † |
| 2023 | Blur |
| 2023 | Fall Out Boy ‡ |
| 2023 | Paramore ‡ |
| 2023 | Thirty Seconds to Mars ‡ |
| 2023 | Yungblud |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Imagine Dragons ‡ |
| 2024 | Hozier ‡ |
| 2024 | Fontaines D.C. |
| 2024 | Lana Del Rey |
| 2024 | Twenty One Pilots |
| 2024 | Yungblud |