Grammy Award for Best Rock Album

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album , in German "Grammy Award for the best rock album", is a music prize that has been awarded at the annual Grammy Awards since 1995 . It is awarded for outstanding musicians albums of rock music .

Background and story

Neil Young 2008 in Florence: With six nominations he is the artist with the most nominations, who has never received the award.

The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been presented since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in the United States of America for artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance regardless of the album - Honor sales or chart position.

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album was first given in 1995 to the band The Rolling Stones for the album Voodoo Lounge and has been one of the annually awarded prizes in the field of rock music ever since. According to the criteria of the Grammy Awards 2010 , it is awarded for vocal and instrumental albums from the fields of rock, hard rock and metal with a minimum of 51% of the total playing time of newly recorded material. Since 1996, in addition to performing artists, music producers , sound engineers and other album staff have been part of the award ceremony .

The band Foo Fighters has won this award four times to date, topping the list of Grammy winners in this category. At the same time, they were the most frequent with six nominations. Neil Young was nominated six times, including one with Crazy Horse , but has never won the award. Sheryl Crow , Green Day and U2 have each won the award twice. The most common prizes were given to American artists, but U2's two wins have already gone twice to Irish artists and four times to British artists with the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Muse (two times). In addition, Carlos Santana as a Mexican artist and Alanis Morissette as a Canadian artist won the award.

Winner and nominated artist

year	Artist / band	nationality	plant	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
1995 March 1, 1995	The Rolling Stones	United Kingdom	Voodoo lounge	Pearl Jam - Vs. REM - monsters Soundgarden - Superunknown Neil Young - Sleeps with Angels
1996 February 28, 1996	Alanis Morissette	Canada	Jagged Little Pill	Chris Isaak - Forever Blue Pearl Jam - Vitalogy Tom Petty - Wildflowers Neil Young - Mirror Ball
1997 February 26, 1997	Sheryl Crow	United States	Sheryl Crow	Dave Matthews Band - Crash No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Broken Arrow
1998 February 25, 1998	John Fogerty	United States	Blue moon swamp	Aerosmith - Nine Lives Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon U2 - Pop
1999 February 25, 1999	Sheryl Crow	United States	The Globe Sessions	Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets John Fogerty - Premonition Garbage - Version 2.0 Hole - Celebrity Skin
2000 February 23, 2000	Santana	Mexico United States	Supernatural	Melissa Etheridge - Breakdown Limp Bizkit - Significant Other Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Echo
2001 February 23, 2001	Foo fighters	United States	There Is Nothing Left to Lose	Bon Jovi - Crush Matchbox twenty - Mad Season No Doubt - Return of Saturn Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
2002 February 27, 2002	U2	Ireland	All That You Can't Leave Behind	Ryan Adams - Gold Aerosmith - Just Push Play PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
2003 February 27, 2003	Bruce Springsteen	United States	The rising	Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel Sheryl Crow - C'mon C'mon Robert Plant - Dreamland Tonic - Head on Straight
2004 February 8, 2004	Foo fighters	United States	One by one	Audio slave - audio slave Evanescence - traps Matchbox twenty - More Than You Think You Are Nickelback - The Long Road
2005 February 13, 2005	Green Day	United States	American idiot	Elvis Costello and the Imposters - The Delivery Man Hoobastank - The Reason The Killers - Hot Fuss Velvet Revolver - Contraband
2006 February 8, 2006	U2	Ireland	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	Coldplay - X&Y Foo Fighters - In Your Honor The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang Neil Young - Prairie Wind
2007 February 11, 2007	Red hot chili peppers	United States	Arcadium Stadium	John Mayer Trio - Try! Tom Petty - Highway Companion The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers Neil Young - Living with War
2008 February 10, 2008	Foo fighters	United States	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	Daughtry - Daughtry John Fogerty - Revival Bruce Springsteen - Magic Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
2009 February 8, 2009	Coldplay	United Kingdom	Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	Kid Rock - Rock n Roll Jesus Kings of Leon - Only by the Night Metallica - Death Magnetic The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
2010 January 31, 2010	Green Day	United States	21st Century Breakdown	AC / DC - Black Ice Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Live from Madison Square Garden Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King U2 - No Line on the Horizon
2011 February 13, 2011	muse	United Kingdom	The Resistance	Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion Pearl Jam - Backspacer Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mojo Neil Young - Le Noise
2012 February 12, 2012	Foo fighters	United States	Wasting light	Jeff Beck - Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with You Wilco - The Whole Love
2013 February 10, 2013	The Black Keys	United States	El Camino	Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto Muse - The 2nd Law Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball Jack White - Blunderbuss
2014 January 26, 2014	Led Zeppelin	United Kingdom	Celebration Day	Black Sabbath - 13 David Bowie - The Next Day Kings of Leon - Mechanical Bull Queens of the Stone Age - … Like Clockwork Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
2015 February 8, 2015	Beck	United States	Morning phase	Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams The Black Keys - Turn Blue Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eve U2 - Songs of Innocence
2016 February 15, 2016	muse	United Kingdom	Drones	James Bay - Chaos and the Calm Death Cab for Cutie - Kintsugi Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum Slipknot - 5: The Gray Chapter
2017 February 12, 2017	Cage the Elephant	United States	Tell Me I'm Pretty	Blink-182 - California Gojira - Magma Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor Weezer - Weezer
2018 January 28, 2018	The war on drugs	United States	A deeper understanding	Mastodon - Emperor of Sand Metallica - Hardwired… to Self-Destruct Nothing More - The Stories We Tell Ourselves Queens of the Stone Age - Villians
2019 February 10, 2019	Greta Van Fleet	United States	From the Fires	Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog Fall Out Boy - Mania Ghost - Prequelle Weezer - Pacific Daydream
2020 January 26th, 2020	Cage the Elephant	United States	Social cues	Bring Me the Horizon - Amo Cranberries - In the End I Prevail - Trauma Rival Sons - Feral Roots

supporting documents

1. ↑ “ honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position ” Overview . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 11, 2014.
2. ^ Grammy Awards at a Glance . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved July 19, 2010.
3. ↑ "vocal or instrumental rock, hard rock or metal albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded material" 52nd OEP Category Description Guide (PDF; 85 kB) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. S. 2. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 12, 2010. 
4. ↑ Dan Auerbach, Fun., Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West Lead 55th GRAMMY Nominations . Recording Academy press release, December 5, 2012.
5. ↑ 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees. grammy.com; accessed on December 6, 2012.
6. ↑ 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees . Grammy Awards . Retrieved December 7, 2013.
7. ^ NARAL Final Nomination List 57th Grammy Awards . (PDF) accessed on December 31, 2015.

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards
• Grammy Awards: Best Rock Album . Rock on the Net. Retrieved July 12, 2010.