Grammy Award for Best Rock Album facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Grammy Award for Best Rock Album
This Is Why by Paramore is the most recent recipient
Presented by	The Recording Academy
Country	United States
First awarded	1995
Currently held by	Paramore, This Is Why (2024)

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album is a special prize given out at the Grammy Awards. These awards started in 1958 and were first called the Gramophone Awards. This specific award celebrates the best rock music albums.

Each year, The Recording Academy in the United States gives out these awards. They want to "honor artistic achievement, technical skill and overall excellence" in music. They don't care about how many albums were sold or how popular they were on music charts.

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

The award for Best Rock Album was first given in 1995 to the band The Rolling Stones. The name of the award has stayed the same ever since. To win, an album must be mostly rock, hard rock, or metal music. At least 51% of the album needs to be new songs.

The award goes to the main artist, the producer, and the sound engineer or mixer. These people must have worked on more than half of the album. If they worked on less than half, they can still get a special certificate.

The band Foo Fighters has won this award five times, which is more than any other artist or group. They have also been nominated eight times, which is another record! Foo Fighters are the only group to win three, four, and even five times. In the early 2000s, they won twice in just four years. Their albums There is Nothing Left to Lose (2001) and One by One (2004) both won.

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

Award Winners

The first winners of this award were The Rolling Stones.

Alanis Morissette was the first woman to win this award.

Sheryl Crow has won the award two times.

Carlos Santana from the band Santana won in 2000.

The band U2 has won this award twice.

Bruce Springsteen won the award in 2003.

Coldplay won the award in 2009.

The band Muse has won this award two times.

Beck won the award in 2015.

Cage the Elephant has won this award two times.

Paramore won in 2024. They are the first band with a female lead singer to win this award.

Each year in the table links to the article about the Grammy Awards that took place in that year.

Artists with Multiple Wins

Artists with Multiple Nominations

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Premio Grammy al mejor álbum rock para niños