MTV Europe Music Awards / Best Alternative

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative is a genre category of the MTV Europe Music Awards . It has been awarded at irregular intervals since 1997 and is aimed at bands belonging to alternative rock and alternative metal . Thirty Seconds to Mars won the award three times.

Nominees and winners

1990s

year	Artist	EN
1997
	The Prodigy
	Beck
	Blur
	Radiohead
	The Verve

2000s

year	Artist	EN
2004
	muse
	Bjork
	Franz Ferdinand
	The Hives
	The Prodigy
2005
	System of a Down
	Beck
	Bloc party
	Goldfrapp
	The White Stripes
2006
	muse
	Arctic Monkeys
	grain
	The Raconteurs
	System of a Down
2009
	placebo
	muse
	Paramore
	The killers
	The Prodigy

2010s

year	Artist	EN
2010
	Paramore
	Arcade Fire
	The Black Keys
	Gorillaz
	Vampire Weekend
2011
	Thirty Seconds to Mars
	Arctic Monkeys
	My Chemical Romance
	PJ Harvey
	The Strokes
2012
	Lana Del Rey
	The Black Keys
	Florence + The Machine
	Foster the People
	Jack White
2013
	Arctic Monkeys
	fall out Boy
	Franz Ferdinand
	Paramore
	TR / ST
2014
	Thirty Seconds to Mars
	Arcade Fire
	Lana Del Rey
	Lorde
	TR / ST
2015
	Lana Del Rey
	Bjork
	fall out Boy
	Florence and the Machine
	Twenty One Pilots
2016
	Twenty One Pilots
	Kings of Leon
	Radiohead
	Tame Impala
	The 1975
2017
	Thirty Seconds to Mars
	Imagine Dragons
	Lana Del Rey
	Lorde
	The xx
2018
	Panic! at the disco
	fall out Boy
	The 1975
	Thirty Seconds to Mars
	Twenty One Pilots
2019
	FKA twigs
	Lana Del Rey
	As long as
	Twenty One Pilots
	Vampire Weekend

Individual evidence

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2. ^ MTV Europe Awards 2004: The winners . BBC News . November 18, 2004. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
3. ↑ Madonna and Robbie sing for stars at MTV Awards . Daily Mail . November 3, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
4. ↑ Ben Rawson-Jones: MTV Europe Awards 2006: The Nominees . Digital spy . September 20, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
5. ↑ US artists lead MTV Europe awards . BBC News . September 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
6. ↑ We Announce Our First Two Performers: Katy Perry & Linkin Park! . MTV Networks Europe . September 20, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
7. ↑ Lady GaGa Leads 2011 MTV EMA Nominations . MTV UK . September 21, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
8. ↑ Beth Hardie: A total sex pot (Rihanna) and a sweet innocent lass (Taylor Swift) are going to have a fight . In: Daily Mirror , Trinity Mirror , September 17, 2012. 
9. ↑ Jess Denham: MTV Europe Music Awards 2013: List of winners in full. The Independent , November 11, 2013, accessed November 10, 2019 . 
10. ↑ 2014 MTV EMA Nominations: Get the Full List . In: MTV . Retrieved September 16, 2014.
11. ↑ Taylor Swift Leads MTV EMAs With 9 Nominations . In: Billboard . Retrieved September 25, 2015.
12. ↑ justin bieber & beyoncé lead the 2016 mtv ema nominations - see the full list! . In: MTV UK . Retrieved September 27, 2016.
13. ↑ Here Are All the Winners From the 2017 MTV EMAs . In: Billboard . Retrieved November 12, 2017.
14. ↑ Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Post Malone Lead 2018 MTV EMA Nominees . 4th October 2018.
15. ↑ ARIANA GRANDE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X, AND MORE: THE 2019 EMA NOMINATIONS ARE HERE . In: MTV . Retrieved October 3, 2019.