Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance

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The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.[1] According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is designed for solo, duo/groups or collaborative (vocal or instrumental) rock recordings and is limited to singles or tracks only.[2]

Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental rock recordings
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First award2012
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Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance
"Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back to the Beginning" by Yungblud featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II of Sleep Token is the most recent recipient
Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental rock recordings
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First award2012
Currently held byYungblud featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II of Sleep Token — "Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back to the Beginning" (2026)
Websitegrammy.com
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This award combines the previous categories for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards and to eliminate the distinctions between solo and duo/groups performances. The Academy argued that any distinction between these performances is difficult to make, as "four-fifths of rock acts are groups, and even solo rock acts tend to be backed by a band".[3]

The award goes to the artist. The producer, engineer and songwriter can apply for a Winners Certificate.[4]

From 2014, this category has also included hard rock performances that were previously screened in the Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance categories, which are now defunct.

Recipients

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Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters were the inaugural winners of the award.
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David Bowie was posthumously honoured in 2017.
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Leonard Cohen posthumously won in 2018.
2021 recipient Fiona Apple was the first solo female artist to win this category, in a line-up featuring only female performers for the first time.[5] She had previously won the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance trophy with "Criminal" in 1998.
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Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
2012 Foo Fighters "Walk" [6]
2013 The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" [7]
2014 Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" [8]
2015 Jack White "Lazaretto"
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2016 Alabama Shakes "Don't Wanna Fight" [10]
2017 David Bowie "Blackstar"
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2018 Leonard Cohen "You Want It Darker" [12]
2019 Chris Cornell "When Bad Does Good" [13]
2020 Gary Clark Jr. "This Land"
2021 Fiona Apple "Shameika"
[14]
2022 Foo Fighters "Making a Fire" [15]
2023 Brandi Carlile "Broken Horses"
[16]
2024 Boygenius "Not Strong Enough" [17]
2025 The Beatles "Now and Then" [18]
2026 Yungblud featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II of Sleep Token "Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back to the Beginning" [19]
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^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Artists with multiple nominations

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