Grammy Award for Best Rock Album Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Grammy Award for Best Rock Album
Hackney Diamonds by the Rolling Stones is the most recent recipient.
Presented by	The Recording Academy
Country	United States
First awarded	1995
Currently held by	The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (2025)

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album is a special prize given out at the Grammy Awards. These awards celebrate amazing music and recordings. The Grammys started way back in 1958 and were first called the Gramophone Awards. This specific award honors rock music albums that are really well made.

The awards are given each year by The Recording Academy, a group in the United States. They want to celebrate great artistic work and excellent recording skills. They don't care about how many copies an album sells or where it ranks on music charts. They just focus on quality.

Foo Fighters (pictured in 2017) have won this award more than any other artist or group. They have won five times!

The award for Best Rock Album was first given in 1995. The very first winners were the band the Rolling Stones. The name of this award has stayed the same ever since. To win, an album must be mostly (at least 51%) new rock, hard rock, or metal music. This can be songs with singing or just instruments.

Who Gets the Award?
Record Holders
Award Winners
Artists with Multiple Wins
Artists with Multiple Nominations
See also

Who Gets the Award?

The main artist who performs on the album gets the award. Also, the producers and engineers who worked on more than half of the album get an award too. Before 2001, only the performing artist received the actual award. If producers or engineers worked on less than half of the album, they can apply for a special "Winners Certificate."

Record Holders

The band Foo Fighters has won the Best Rock Album award more than anyone else. They have won five times and have been nominated eight times! They are the only group to win three, four, and even five times. In the early 2000s, Foo Fighters won twice in just four years. They won for their albums There is Nothing Left to Lose in 2001 and One by One in 2004.

Other artists who have won the award twice include Sheryl Crow, Green Day, U2, Cage the Elephant, and Muse. Neil Young has been nominated seven times but has not won this specific award yet. So far, only three women have won: Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, and Hayley Williams from the band Paramore.

Award Winners

The first winners of the award, the Rolling Stones.

Alanis Morissette was the first woman to win this award.

Two-time award winner Sheryl Crow.

Carlos Santana of the band Santana, who won in 2000.

The band U2, who have won the award twice.

Bruce Springsteen, who won in 2003.

Coldplay won the award in 2009.

The band Muse, who have won the award twice.

Beck won the award in 2015.

The band Cage the Elephant, who have won the award twice.

Paramore won in 2024, the first band with a female singer to win.

Year	Winners	Work	Nominees
1995	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge	Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Soundgarden, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
1996	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	Chris Isaak, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Neil Young
1997	Sheryl Crow	Sheryl Crow	Dave Matthews Band, No Doubt, Bonnie Raitt, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
1998	John Fogerty	Blue Moon Swamp	Aerosmith, Foo Fighters, The Rolling Stones, U2
1999	Sheryl Crow	The Globe Sessions	Dave Matthews Band, John Fogerty, Garbage, Hole
2000	Santana	Supernatural	Melissa Etheridge, Limp Bizkit, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2001	Foo Fighters	There Is Nothing Left to Lose	Bon Jovi, Matchbox Twenty, No Doubt, Rage Against the Machine
2002	U2	All That You Can't Leave Behind	Ryan Adams, Aerosmith, PJ Harvey, Linkin Park
2003	Bruce Springsteen	The Rising	Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Robert Plant, Tonic
2004	Foo Fighters	One by One	Audioslave, Evanescence, Matchbox Twenty, Nickelback
2005	Green Day	American Idiot	Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Hoobastank, The Killers, Velvet Revolver
2006	U2	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	Coldplay, Foo Fighters, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young
2007	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium	John Mayer Trio, Tom Petty, The Raconteurs, Neil Young
2008	Foo Fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	Daughtry, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Wilco
2009	Coldplay	Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	Kid Rock, Kings of Leon, Metallica, The Raconteurs
2010	Green Day	21st Century Breakdown	AC/DC, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, Dave Matthews Band, U2
2011	Muse	The Resistance	Jeff Beck, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Neil Young
2012	Foo Fighters	Wasting Light	Jeff Beck, Kings of Leon, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco
2013	The Black Keys	El Camino	Coldplay, Muse, Bruce Springsteen, Jack White
2014	Led Zeppelin	Celebration Day	Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young with Crazy Horse
2015	Beck	Morning Phase	Ryan Adams, The Black Keys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, U2
2016	Muse	Drones	James Bay, Death Cab for Cutie, Highly Suspect, Slipknot
2017	Cage the Elephant	Tell Me I'm Pretty	Blink-182, Gojira, Panic! at the Disco, Weezer
2018	The War on Drugs	A Deeper Understanding	Mastodon, Metallica, Nothing More, Queens of the Stone Age
2019	Greta Van Fleet	From the Fires	Alice in Chains, Fall Out Boy, Ghost, Weezer
2020	Cage the Elephant	Social Cues	Bring Me the Horizon, The Cranberries, I Prevail, Rival Sons
2021	The Strokes	The New Abnormal	Fontaines D.C., Michael Kiwanuka, Grace Potter, Sturgill Simpson
2022	Foo Fighters	Medicine at Midnight	AC/DC, Black Pumas, Chris Cornell, Paul McCartney
2023	Ozzy Osbourne	Patient Number 9	The Black Keys, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Idles, Machine Gun Kelly, Spoon
2024	Paramore	This Is Why	Foo Fighters, Greta Van Fleet, Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age
2025	The Rolling Stones	Hackney Diamonds	The Black Crowes, Fontaines D.C., Green Day, Idles, Pearl Jam, Jack White