MTV Europe Music Awards / Best Rock

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Rock is one of two genre categories introduced at the beginning of the MTV Europe Music Awards . In 2002 the award was split into two parts and was also given the title Best Hard Rock Act . Linkin Park won the category most frequently with four awards , followed by Coldplay , 30 Seconds to Mars and Green Day with three awards each.

Nominees and winners

1990s

year	Artist	EN
1994
	Aerosmith
	Metallica
	Rage Against the Machine
	Soundgarden
	Therapy?
1995
	Bon Jovi
	Green Day
	Oasis
	The Offspring
	Therapy?
1996
	The Smashing Pumpkins
	Bon Jovi
	The dead pants
	Metallica
	Oasis
1997
	Oasis
	Aerosmith
	Jon Bon Jovi
	Bush
	Skunk anansia
1998
	Aerosmith
	Garbage
	Marilyn Manson
	Rammstein
	The Smashing Pumpkins
1999
	The Offspring
	The cardigans
	Lenny Kravitz
	Marilyn Manson
	Red hot chili peppers

2000s

year	Artist	EN
2000
	Red hot chili peppers
	Bon Jovi
	Foo fighters
	grain
	Limp Bizkit
2001
	Blink-182
	Crazy Town
	Limp Bizkit
	Linkin Park
	U2
2002
	Red hot chili peppers
	Bon Jovi
	Coldplay
	Nickelback
	U2
	Best Hard Rock Act
	Linkin Park
	grain
	POD
	Puddle of Mudd
	System of a Down
2003
	The White Stripes
	Good Charlotte
	Linkin Park
	Metallica
	Red hot chili peppers
2004
	Linkin Park
	The Darkness
	Good Charlotte
	Green Day
	Red hot chili peppers
2005
	Green Day
	Coldplay
	Foo fighters
	Franz Ferdinand
	U2
2006
	The killers
	Evanescence
	Keane
	Red hot chili peppers
	The Strokes
2007
	30 Seconds to Mars
	Evanescence
	fall out Boy
	Linkin Park
	My Chemical Romance
2008
	30 Seconds to Mars
	Linkin Park
	Metallica
	Paramore
	Slipknot
2009
	Green Day
	Foo fighters
	Kings of Leon
	Linkin Park
	U2

2010s

year	Artist	EN
2010
	30 Seconds to Mars
	Kings of Leon
	Linkin Park
	muse
	Ozzy Osbourne
2011
	Linkin Park
	Coldplay
	Foo fighters
	Kings of Leon
	Red hot chili peppers
2012
	Linkin Park
	Coldplay
	Green Day
	The killers
	muse
2013
	Green Day
	Black Sabbath
	The killers
	Kings of Leon
	Queens of the Stone Age
2014
	Linkin Park
	Arctic Monkeys
	The Black Keys
	Coldplay
	Imagine Dragons
2015
	Coldplay
	Foo fighters
	muse
	Royal Blood
	AC / DC
2016
	Coldplay
	Green Day
	Metallica
	muse
	Red hot chili peppers
2017
	Coldplay
	Foo fighters
	Royal Blood
	The killers
	U2
2018
	5 seconds of summer
	Foo fighters
	Imagine Dragons
	muse
	U2
2019
	Green Day
	Imagine Dragons
	Liam Gallagher
	Panic! at the disco
	The 1975

Individual evidence

^ Dominic Pride: MTV Sets First European Awards Show . Billboard , November 5, 1994 (accessed October 19, 2011).
↑ Brett Atwood: November Awards Abound: Billboard Vid, MTV Europe . Billboard , October 28, 1995 (accessed October 19, 2011).
↑ http://www.gminfopage.com/YM/ym041.htm
^ Puffy, Radiohead Lead MTV Europe Nominees . MTV News . September 19, 1997. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
^ MTV Unveils the Nominations for the 1998 MTV Europe Music Awards; All Saints & Madonna Top List of Nominees . findarticles.com. October 1, 1998. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
^ Britney, BSB Top Nominations For MTV Europe Awards; Spears, Mariah, Puffy, Manson To Perform . MTV News . October 5, 1999. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ Aneta Tadeusiak: MTV Europe Music Awards 2000 . ukmix.org. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ MTV Europe: Award nominations 2001 . BBC News . September 25, 2001. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
^ Robert Mancini: Eminem, Pink, Shakira Nab Most Noms For MTV Europe Music Awards . MTV News . September 30, 2002. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ Stars gather for MTV Awards . Daily Mail . Retrieved October 19, 2011.
^ MTV Europe Awards 2004: The winners . BBC News . November 18, 2004. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ Madonna and Robbie sing for stars at MTV Awards . Daily Mail . November 3, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ Ben Rawson-Jones: MTV Europe Awards 2006: The Nominees . Digital spy . September 20, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ Nick Levine: In full: MTV Europe Music Awards winners . Digital spy . November 1, 2007. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ MTV EMAs name Rick Astley 'Best Act Ever' . NME . November 7, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ US artists lead MTV Europe awards . BBC News . September 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
↑ We Announce Our First Two Performers: Katy Perry & Linkin Park! . MTV Networks Europe . September 20, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
↑ Lady GaGa Leads 2011 MTV EMA Nominations . MTV UK . September 21, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
↑ 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.
↑ Jess Denham: MTV Europe Music Awards 2013: List of winners in full. The Independent , November 11, 2013, accessed November 10, 2019 .
↑ 2014 MTV EMA Nominations: Get the Full List . In: MTV . Retrieved September 16, 2014.
↑ Taylor Swift Leads MTV EMAs With 9 Nominations . In: Billboard . Retrieved September 25, 2015.
↑ justin bieber & beyoncé lead the 2016 mtv ema nominations - see the full list! . In: MTV UK . Retrieved September 27, 2016.
↑ Here Are All the Winners From the 2017 MTV EMAs . In: Billboard . Retrieved November 12, 2017.
↑ Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Post Malone Lead 2018 MTV EMA Nominees . 4th October 2018.
↑ ARIANA GRANDE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X, AND MORE: THE 2019 EMA NOMINATIONS ARE HERE . In: MTV . Retrieved October 3, 2019.

[1] Dominic Pride: MTV Sets First European Awards Show . Billboard , November 5, 1994 (accessed October 19, 2011).

[2] Brett Atwood: November Awards Abound: Billboard Vid, MTV Europe . Billboard , October 28, 1995 (accessed October 19, 2011).

[3] ttp://www.gminfopage.com/YM/ym041.htm

[4] Puffy, Radiohead Lead MTV Europe Nominees . MTV News . September 19, 1997. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[5] MTV Unveils the Nominations for the 1998 MTV Europe Music Awards; All Saints & Madonna Top List of Nominees . findarticles.com. October 1, 1998. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[6] Britney, BSB Top Nominations For MTV Europe Awards; Spears, Mariah, Puffy, Manson To Perform . MTV News . October 5, 1999. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[7] Aneta Tadeusiak: MTV Europe Music Awards 2000 . ukmix.org. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[8] MTV Europe: Award nominations 2001 . BBC News . September 25, 2001. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[9] Robert Mancini: Eminem, Pink, Shakira Nab Most Noms For MTV Europe Music Awards . MTV News . September 30, 2002. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[10] Stars gather for MTV Awards . Daily Mail . Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[11] MTV Europe Awards 2004: The winners . BBC News . November 18, 2004. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[12] Madonna and Robbie sing for stars at MTV Awards . Daily Mail . November 3, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[13] Ben Rawson-Jones: MTV Europe Awards 2006: The Nominees . Digital spy . September 20, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[14] Nick Levine: In full: MTV Europe Music Awards winners . Digital spy . November 1, 2007. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[15] MTV EMAs name Rick Astley 'Best Act Ever' . NME . November 7, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[16] US artists lead MTV Europe awards . BBC News . September 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

[17] We Announce Our First Two Performers: Katy Perry & Linkin Park! . MTV Networks Europe . September 20, 2010. Retrieved September 21, 2010.

[18] Lady GaGa Leads 2011 MTV EMA Nominations . MTV UK . September 21, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011.

[19] 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.

[20] Jess Denham: MTV Europe Music Awards 2013: List of winners in full. The Independent , November 11, 2013, accessed November 10, 2019 .

[21] 2014 MTV EMA Nominations: Get the Full List . In: MTV . Retrieved September 16, 2014.

[22] Taylor Swift Leads MTV EMAs With 9 Nominations . In: Billboard . Retrieved September 25, 2015.

[23] ustin bieber & beyoncé lead the 2016 mtv ema nominations - see the full list! . In: MTV UK . Retrieved September 27, 2016.

[24] Here Are All the Winners From the 2017 MTV EMAs . In: Billboard . Retrieved November 12, 2017.

[25] Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Post Malone Lead 2018 MTV EMA Nominees . 4th October 2018.

[26] ARIANA GRANDE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X, AND MORE: THE 2019 EMA NOMINATIONS ARE HERE . In: MTV . Retrieved October 3, 2019.