MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

† indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video–winning artist.

‡ indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video–nominated artist that same year.

Hayley Williams of Paramore and Lana Del Rey are the only female artists that have won more than once.

1990s

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Year	Artist	Ref
1997
	The Prodigy	[1]
	Beck ‡
	Blur ‡
	Radiohead
	The Verve

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2000s

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Year	Artist	Ref
2004
	Muse	[2]
	Björk
	Franz Ferdinand
	The Hives
	The Prodigy
2005
	System of a Down	[3]
	Beck
	Bloc Party
	Goldfrapp
	The White Stripes
2006
	Muse	[4]
	Arctic Monkeys
	Korn
	The Raconteurs
	System of a Down
2009
	Placebo	[5]
	Muse
	Paramore
	The Killers
	The Prodigy

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2010s

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Year	Artist	Ref
2010
	Paramore	[6]
	Arcade Fire
	The Black Keys
	Gorillaz
	Vampire Weekend
2011
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	[7]
	Arcade Fire
	Arctic Monkeys
	My Chemical Romance
	The Strokes
2012
	Lana Del Rey	[8]
	The Black Keys
	Florence + The Machine
	Foster The People
	Jack White
2013
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	[9]
	Arctic Monkeys
	Fall Out Boy
	Franz Ferdinand
	Paramore
2014
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	[10]
	Arcade Fire
	Lana Del Rey
	Lorde
	Paramore
2015
	Lana Del Rey	[11]
	Björk
	Fall Out Boy
	Florence and the Machine
	Twenty One Pilots
2016
	Twenty One Pilots	[12]
	Kings of Leon
	Radiohead
	Tame Impala
	The 1975
2017
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	[13]
	Imagine Dragons
	Lana Del Rey
	Lorde
	The xx
2018
	Panic! at the Disco	[14]
	Fall Out Boy
	The 1975
	Thirty Seconds to Mars
	Twenty One Pilots
2019
	FKA Twigs	[15]
	Lana Del Rey
	Solange
	Twenty One Pilots
	Vampire Weekend

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2020s

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Year	Artist	Ref
2020
	Hayley Williams	[16]
	Blackbear
	FKA Twigs
	Machine Gun Kelly †
	Twenty One Pilots ‡
	The 1975 ‡
2021
	Yungblud	[17]
	Halsey
	Lorde
	Machine Gun Kelly †
	Twenty One Pilots ‡
	Willow ‡
2022
	Gorillaz	[18]
	Imagine Dragons ‡
	Panic! At The Disco ‡
	Tame Impala
	Twenty One Pilots ‡
	Yungblud
2023
	Lana Del Rey †
	Blur
	Fall Out Boy ‡
	Paramore ‡
	Thirty Seconds to Mars ‡
	Yungblud
2024
	Imagine Dragons ‡	[19]
	Hozier ‡
	Fontaines D.C.
	Lana Del Rey
	Twenty One Pilots
	Yungblud

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