Every Grammys Best Rock Performance winner

14 ceremonies, 2012–2025. 13 different winners.

Best Rock Performance was first awarded in 2012, so it does not run the full 2000–2025 window.

It merged Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and from 2014 it also took in hard rock.

It took over from Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance and Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

Foo Fighters ×2

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

Foo Fighters'12

The Black Keys'13

Imagine Dragons'14

Jack White'15

Alabama Shakes'16

David Bowie'17

Leonard Cohen'18

Chris Cornell'19

Gary Clark Jr.'20

Fiona Apple'21

Foo Fighters'22

Brandi Carlile'23

Boygenius'24

The Beatles'25

Wins by label

Sony321%
Warner321%
Independent214%
Apple17%
ISO17%
KidinaKorner17%
Other321%

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2012–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Arctic Monkeys3 noms
Beck2 noms
Black Pumas2 noms
Brittany Howard2 noms
Coldplay2 noms
Idles2 noms

Most losses

Alabama Shakes3L · 1W
Arctic Monkeys3L · 0W
Foo Fighters3L · 2W
The Black Keys3L · 1W
Beck2L · 0W
Black Pumas2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2025	The Beatles (Now and Then) beat 5 others The Black Keys (Beautiful People (Stay High)) Green Day (The American Dream Is Killing Me) Idles (Gift Horse) Pearl Jam (Dark Matter) St. Vincent (Broken Man)	Apple
2024	Boygenius (Not Strong Enough) beat 4 others Arctic Monkeys (Sculptures of Anything Goes) Black Pumas (More Than a Love Song) Foo Fighters (Rescued) Metallica (Lux Æterna)	Interscope
2023	Brandi Carlile (Broken Horses) beat 6 others Bryan Adams (So Happy It Hurts) Beck (Old Man) The Black Keys (Wild Child) Idles (Crawl!) Ozzy Osbourne featuring Jeff Beck (Patient Number 9) Turnstile (Holiday)	Low Country Sound/Elektra
2022	Foo Fighters (Making a Fire) beat 4 others AC/DC (Shot in the Dark) Black Pumas (Know You Better (Live from Capitol Studio A)) Chris Cornell (Nothing Compares 2 U) Deftones (Ohms)	Roswell/RCA
2021	Fiona Apple (Shameika) beat 5 others Big Thief (Not) Phoebe Bridgers (Kyoto) Haim (The Steps) Brittany Howard (Stay High) Grace Potter (Daylight)	Epic/Clean Slate
2020	Gary Clark Jr. (This Land) beat 4 others Bones UK (Pretty Waste) Brittany Howard (History Repeats) Karen O and Danger Mouse (Woman) Rival Sons (Too Bad)	Warner Bros.
2019	Chris Cornell (When Bad Does Good) beat 4 others Arctic Monkeys (Four Out of Five) The Fever 333 (Made an America) Greta Van Fleet (Highway Tune) Halestorm (Uncomfortable)	UME
2018	Leonard Cohen (You Want It Darker) beat 4 others Chris Cornell (The Promise) Foo Fighters (Run) Kaleo (No Good) Nothing More (Go to War)	Columbia
2017	David Bowie (Blackstar) beat 4 others Alabama Shakes (Joe (Live from Austin City Limits)) Beyoncé featuring Jack White (Don't Hurt Yourself) Disturbed (The Sound of Silence) Twenty One Pilots (Heathens)	ISO/Columbia
2016	Alabama Shakes (Don't Wanna Fight) beat 4 others Florence and the Machine (What Kind of Man) Foo Fighters (Something from Nothing) Elle King (Ex's & Oh's) Wolf Alice (Moaning Lisa Smile)	ATO
2015	Jack White (Lazaretto) beat 4 others Ryan Adams (Gimme Something Good) Arctic Monkeys (Do I Wanna Know?) Beck (Blue Moon) The Black Keys (Fever)	Third Man
2014	Imagine Dragons (Radioactive) beat 5 others Alabama Shakes (Always Alright) David Bowie (The Stars (Are Out Tonight)) Led Zeppelin (Kashmir (Live)) Queens of the Stone Age (My God Is the Sun) Jack White (I'm Shakin')	KidinaKorner/Interscope
2013	The Black Keys (Lonely Boy) beat 4 others Alabama Shakes (Hold On) Coldplay (Charlie Brown) Mumford & Sons (I Will Wait) Bruce Springsteen (We Take Care of Our Own)	Nonesuch
2012	Foo Fighters (Walk) beat 4 others Coldplay (Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall) The Decemberists (Down by the Water) Mumford & Sons (The Cave) Radiohead (Lotus Flower)	RCA

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