# 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, 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".
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.

## Recipients

| Year | Winners | Work | Nominees |
| 1995 | The Rolling Stones | Voodoo Lounge | Pearl Jam – Vs. R.E.M. – Monster Soundgarden – Superunknown Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Sleeps with Angels |
| 1996 | Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill | Chris Isaak – Forever Blue Pearl Jam – Vitalogy Tom Petty – Wildflowers Neil Young – Mirror Ball |
| 1997 | Sheryl Crow | Sheryl Crow | Dave Matthews Band – Crash No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom Bonnie Raitt – Road Tested Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Broken Arrow |
| 1998 | John Fogerty | Blue Moon Swamp | Aerosmith – Nine Lives Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape The Rolling Stones – Bridges to Babylon U2 – Pop |
| 1999 | Sheryl Crow | The Globe Sessions | Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets John Fogerty – Premonition Garbage – Version 2.0 Hole – Celebrity Skin |
| 2000 | Santana | Supernatural | Melissa Etheridge – Breakdown Limp Bizkit – Significant Other Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Echo |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.