Every Grammys Best Rock Album winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 18 different winners.

Foo Fighters ×5Cage the Elephant ×2Green Day ×2Muse ×2U2 ×2

One band per year, because no winner here has ever gone back-to-back. Colored by label; scroll sideways for the full run.

Santana'00

Foo Fighters'01

U2'02

Bruce Springsteen'03

Foo Fighters'04

Green Day'05

U2'06

Red Hot Chili Peppers'07

Foo Fighters'08

Coldplay'09

Green Day'10

Muse'11

Foo Fighters'12

The Black Keys'13

Led Zeppelin'14

Beck'15

Muse'16

Cage the Elephant'17

The War on Drugs'18

Greta Van Fleet'19

Cage the Elephant'20

The Strokes'21

Foo Fighters'22

Ozzy Osbourne'23

Paramore'24

The Rolling Stones'25

Wins by label

Warner14Sony5Universal5Cult1Swan Song1

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Kings of Leon3 noms
Metallica3 noms
Neil Young3 noms
Queens of the Stone Age3 noms
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers3 noms
AC/DC2 noms

Most losses

Kings of Leon3L · 0W
Metallica3L · 0W
Neil Young3L · 0W
Queens of the Stone Age3L · 0W
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers3L · 0W
AC/DC2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2025	The Rolling Stones (Hackney Diamonds) beat 6 others Pearl Jam (Dark Matter) The Black Crowes (Happiness Bastards) Jack White (No Name) Fontaines D.C. (Romance) Green Day (Saviors) Idles (Tangk)	Polydor/Geffen
2024	Paramore (This Is Why) beat 4 others Metallica (72 Seasons) Foo Fighters (But Here We Are) Queens of the Stone Age (In Times New Roman...) Greta Van Fleet (Starcatcher)	Atlantic
2023	Ozzy Osbourne (Patient Number 9) beat 5 others Elvis Costello and the Imposters (The Boy Named If) Idles (Crawler) The Black Keys (Dropout Boogie) Spoon (Lucifer on the Sofa) Machine Gun Kelly (Mainstream Sellout)	Epic
2022	Foo Fighters (Medicine at Midnight) beat 4 others Black Pumas (Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A) Paul McCartney (McCartney III) Chris Cornell (No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1) AC/DC (Power Up)	Roswell/RCA
2021	The Strokes (The New Abnormal) beat 4 others Grace Potter (Daylight) Fontaines D.C. (A Hero's Death) Michael Kiwanuka (Kiwanuka) Sturgill Simpson (Sound & Fury)	Cult/RCA
2020	Cage the Elephant (Social Cues) beat 4 others Bring Me the Horizon (Amo) Rival Sons (Feral Roots) The Cranberries (In the End) I Prevail (Trauma)	RCA
2019	Greta Van Fleet (From the Fires) beat 4 others Fall Out Boy (Mania) Weezer (Pacific Daydream) Ghost (Prequelle) Alice in Chains (Rainier Fog)	Lava/Republic
2018	The War on Drugs (A Deeper Understanding) beat 4 others Mastodon (Emperor of Sand) Metallica (Hardwired... to Self-Destruct) Nothing More (The Stories We Tell Ourselves) Queens of the Stone Age (Villains)	Atlantic
2017	Cage the Elephant (Tell Me I'm Pretty) beat 4 others Blink-182 (California) Panic! at the Disco (Death of a Bachelor) Gojira (Magma) Weezer (Weezer)	RCA
2016	Muse (Drones) beat 4 others Slipknot (.5: The Gray Chapter) James Bay (Chaos and the Calm) Death Cab for Cutie (Kintsugi) Highly Suspect (Mister Asylum)	Warner Bros./Helium-3
2015	Beck (Morning Phase) beat 4 others Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Hypnotic Eye) Ryan Adams (Ryan Adams) U2 (Songs of Innocence) The Black Keys (Turn Blue)	Capitol
2014	Led Zeppelin (Celebration Day) beat 5 others Black Sabbath (13) Queens of the Stone Age (...Like Clockwork) Kings of Leon (Mechanical Bull) David Bowie (The Next Day) Neil Young with Crazy Horse (Psychedelic Pill)	Swan Song/Atlantic
2013	The Black Keys (El Camino) beat 4 others Muse (The 2nd Law) Jack White (Blunderbuss) Coldplay (Mylo Xyloto) Bruce Springsteen (Wrecking Ball)	Nonesuch
2012	Foo Fighters (Wasting Light) beat 4 others Kings of Leon (Come Around Sundown) Red Hot Chili Peppers (I'm with You) Jeff Beck (Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul)) Wilco (The Whole Love)	Roswell/RCA
2011	Muse (The Resistance) beat 4 others Pearl Jam (Backspacer) Jeff Beck (Emotion & Commotion) Neil Young (Le Noise) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Mojo)	Warner Bros./Helium-3
2010	Green Day (21st Century Breakdown) beat 4 others Dave Matthews Band (Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King) AC/DC (Black Ice) Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood (Live from Madison Square Garden) U2 (No Line on the Horizon)	Reprise
2009	Coldplay (Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends) beat 4 others The Raconteurs (Consolers of the Lonely) Metallica (Death Magnetic) Kings of Leon (Only by the Night) Kid Rock (Rock n Roll Jesus)	Parlophone/Capitol
2008	Foo Fighters (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace) beat 4 others Daughtry (Daughtry) Bruce Springsteen (Magic) John Fogerty (Revival) Wilco (Sky Blue Sky)	Roswell/RCA
2007	Red Hot Chili Peppers (Stadium Arcadium) beat 4 others The Raconteurs (Broken Boy Soldiers) Tom Petty (Highway Companion) Neil Young (Living with War) John Mayer Trio (Try!)	Warner Bros.
2006	U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb) beat 4 others The Rolling Stones (A Bigger Bang) Foo Fighters (In Your Honor) Neil Young (Prairie Wind) Coldplay (X&Y)	Interscope/Island
2005	Green Day (American Idiot) beat 4 others Velvet Revolver (Contraband) Elvis Costello and the Imposters (The Delivery Man) The Killers (Hot Fuss) Hoobastank (The Reason)	Reprise
2004	Foo Fighters (One by One) beat 4 others Audioslave (Audioslave) Evanescence (Fallen) Nickelback (The Long Road) Matchbox Twenty (More Than You Think You Are)	Roswell/RCA
2003	Bruce Springsteen (The Rising) beat 4 others Sheryl Crow (C'mon, C'mon) Robert Plant (Dreamland) Tonic (Head on Straight) Elvis Costello (When I Was Cruel)	Columbia
2002	U2 (All That You Can't Leave Behind) beat 4 others Ryan Adams (Gold) Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory) Aerosmith (Just Push Play) PJ Harvey (Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea)	Interscope/Island
2001	Foo Fighters (There Is Nothing Left to Lose) beat 4 others Rage Against the Machine (The Battle of Los Angeles) Bon Jovi (Crush) Matchbox Twenty (Mad Season) No Doubt (Return of Saturn)	Roswell/RCA
2000	Santana (Supernatural) beat 4 others Melissa Etheridge (Breakdown) Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Echo) Limp Bizkit (Significant Other)	Arista

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