Every Grammys Best Alternative Music Album winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 18 different winners. The longest run was Coldplay, 2 years straight (2002–2003).

St. Vincent ×3The White Stripes ×3Beck ×2Coldplay ×2Radiohead ×2

Each band is one winner’s reign. Wider means a longer run. Colored by label; hover for details.

Beck'00

Radiohead'01

Coldplay'02–'03×2

The White Stripes'04

Wilco'05

The White Stripes'06

Gnarls Barkley'07

The White Stripes'08

Radiohead'09

Phoenix'10

The Black Keys'11

Bon Iver'12

Gotye'13

Vampire Weekend'14

St. Vincent'15

Alabama Shakes'16

David Bowie'17

The National'18

Beck'19

Vampire Weekend'20

Fiona Apple'21

St. Vincent'22

Wet Leg'23

Boygenius'24

St. Vincent'25

Wins by label

Independent11Warner5Universal2DGC1Downtown1Eleven1Other5

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Björk7 noms
Arcade Fire6 noms
Death Cab for Cutie4 noms
Yeah Yeah Yeahs4 noms
Arctic Monkeys3 noms
My Morning Jacket3 noms

Most losses

Björk7L · 0W
Arcade Fire6L · 0W
Beck5L · 2W
Death Cab for Cutie4L · 0W
Radiohead4L · 2W
Yeah Yeah Yeahs4L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2025	St. Vincent (All Born Screaming) beat 4 others Clairo (Charm) Kim Gordon (The Collective) Brittany Howard (What Now) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Wild God)	Total Pleasure/Virgin
2024	Boygenius (The Record) beat 4 others Arctic Monkeys (The Car) Gorillaz (Cracker Island) Lana Del Rey (Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd) PJ Harvey (I Inside the Old Year Dying)	Interscope
2023	Wet Leg (Wet Leg) beat 4 others Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Cool It Down) Big Thief (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You) Björk (Fossora) Arcade Fire (We)	Domino
2022	St. Vincent (Daddy's Home) beat 4 others Arlo Parks (Collapsed in Sunbeams) Halsey (If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power) Japanese Breakfast (Jubilee) Fleet Foxes (Shore)	Loma Vista
2021	Fiona Apple (Fetch the Bolt Cutters) beat 4 others Beck (Hyperspace) Brittany Howard (Jaime) Phoebe Bridgers (Punisher) Tame Impala (The Slow Rush)	Epic
2020	Vampire Weekend (Father of the Bride) beat 4 others Thom Yorke (Anima) James Blake (Assume Form) Bon Iver (I, I) Big Thief (U.F.O.F.)	Spring Snow/Columbia
2019	Beck (Colors) beat 4 others David Byrne (American Utopia) St. Vincent (Masseduction) Arctic Monkeys (Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino) Björk (Utopia)	Capitol/Fonograf
2018	The National (Sleep Well Beast) beat 4 others LCD Soundsystem (American Dream) Arcade Fire (Everything Now) Gorillaz (Humanz) Father John Misty (Pure Comedy)	4AD
2017	David Bowie (Blackstar) beat 4 others Bon Iver (22, A Million) PJ Harvey (The Hope Six Demolition Project) Radiohead (A Moon Shaped Pool) Iggy Pop (Post Pop Depression)	ISO/Columbia
2016	Alabama Shakes (Sound & Color) beat 4 others Tame Impala (Currents) Wilco (Star Wars) Björk (Vulnicura) My Morning Jacket (The Waterfall)	ATO
2015	St. Vincent (St. Vincent) beat 4 others Jack White (Lazaretto) Cage the Elephant (Melophobia) Arcade Fire (Reflektor) Alt-J (This Is All Yours)	Loma Vista/Republic
2014	Vampire Weekend (Modern Vampires of the City) beat 4 others Nine Inch Nails (Hesitation Marks) Tame Impala (Lonerism) The National (Trouble Will Find Me) Neko Case (The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You)	XL
2013	Gotye (Making Mirrors) beat 4 others Tom Waits (Bad as Me) Björk (Biophilia) M83 (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming) Fiona Apple (The Idler Wheel...)	Eleven/Universal
2012	Bon Iver (Bon Iver) beat 4 others My Morning Jacket (Circuital) Death Cab for Cutie (Codes and Keys) Radiohead (The King of Limbs) Foster the People (Torches)	Jagjaguwar
2011	The Black Keys (Brothers) beat 4 others Broken Bells (Broken Bells) Vampire Weekend (Contra) Band of Horses (Infinite Arms) Arcade Fire (The Suburbs)	Nonesuch
2010	Phoenix (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) beat 4 others David Byrne and Brian Eno (Everything That Happens Will Happen Today) Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It's Blitz!) Death Cab for Cutie (The Open Door EP) Depeche Mode (Sounds of the Universe)	Loyauté/Glassnote
2009	Radiohead (In Rainbows) beat 4 others My Morning Jacket (Evil Urges) Beck (Modern Guilt) Death Cab for Cutie (Narrow Stairs) Gnarls Barkley (The Odd Couple)	XL/ATO
2008	The White Stripes (Icky Thump) beat 4 others Lily Allen (Alright, Still) Arcade Fire (Neon Bible) Björk (Volta) The Shins (Wincing the Night Away)	Third Man/Warner Bros.
2007	Gnarls Barkley (St. Elsewhere) beat 4 others The Flaming Lips (At War with the Mystics) Thom Yorke (The Eraser) Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Show Your Bones) Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not)	Downtown/Atlantic
2006	The White Stripes (Get Behind Me Satan) beat 4 others Arcade Fire (Funeral) Beck (Guero) Death Cab for Cutie (Plans) Franz Ferdinand (You Could Have It So Much Better)	Third Man/V2
2005	Wilco (A Ghost Is Born) beat 4 others Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand) Modest Mouse (Good News for People Who Love Bad News) Björk (Medúlla) PJ Harvey (Uh Huh Her)	Nonesuch
2004	The White Stripes (Elephant) beat 4 others Sigur Rós (( )) Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Fever to Tell) The Flaming Lips (Fight Test) Radiohead (Hail to the Thief)	Third Man/V2
2003	Coldplay (A Rush of Blood to the Head)repeat beat 4 others The Soundtrack of Our Lives (Behind the Music) Elvis Costello and the Imposters (Cruel Smile) Beck (Sea Change) Clinic (Walking with Thee)	Parlophone/Capitol
2002	Coldplay (Parachutes) beat 4 others Radiohead (Amnesiac) Fatboy Slim (Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars) Tori Amos (Strange Little Girls) Björk (Vespertine)	Parlophone/Nettwerk
2001	Radiohead (Kid A) beat 4 others The Cure (Bloodflowers) Paul McCartney (Liverpool Sound Collage) Beck (Midnite Vultures) Fiona Apple (When the Pawn...)	Parlophone/Capitol
2000	Beck (Mutations) beat 4 others Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile) Moby (Play) Tori Amos (To Venus and Back) Fatboy Slim (You've Come a Long Way, Baby)	DGC/Geffen

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