The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality albums in the rock music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by The Recording Academy of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

The award for Best Rock Album was first presented to the band the Rolling Stones in 1995, and the name of the category has remained unchanged since then. According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to "vocal or instrumental rock, hard rock or metal albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded material".

The award goes to the artist, producer and engineer/mixer, provided they were responsible for more than 50 percent of playing time on the album. Producers and/or engineers/mixers who are responsible for less than 50 percent, as well as the mastering engineer, can apply for a Winners Certificate.

The band Foo Fighters currently holds the records for both wins and nominations in this award, with five wins and eight nominations overall. Foo Fighters are also the only three-time, four-time, and five-time winners of the award. In the 2000s, the group famously won the award twice in the span of four years, with their albums There is Nothing Left to Lose in 2001 and One by One in 2004.

Two-time winners include Sheryl Crow, Green Day, U2, Cage the Elephant, and Muse. Neil Young holds the record for most nominations without a win, with seven. To date, only three women, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette and Hayley Williams of Paramore have won the award.

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1995	The Rolling Stones	Voodoo Lounge	Pearl Jam – Vs. R.E.M. – Monster Soundgarden – Superunknown Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Sleeps with Angels
1996	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	Chris Isaak – Forever Blue Pearl Jam – Vitalogy Tom Petty – Wildflowers Neil Young – Mirror Ball
1997	Sheryl Crow	Sheryl Crow	Dave Matthews Band – Crash No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom Bonnie Raitt – Road Tested Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Broken Arrow
1998	John Fogerty	Blue Moon Swamp	Aerosmith – Nine Lives Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape The Rolling Stones – Bridges to Babylon U2 – Pop
1999	Sheryl Crow	The Globe Sessions	Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets John Fogerty – Premonition Garbage – Version 2.0 Hole – Celebrity Skin
2000	Santana	Supernatural	Melissa Etheridge – Breakdown Limp Bizkit – Significant Other Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Echo
2001	Foo Fighters	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	U2	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	Bruce Springsteen	The Rising	Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel Sheryl Crow – C'mon, C'mon Robert Plant – Dreamland Tonic – Head on Straight
2004	Foo Fighters	One by One	Audioslave – Audioslave Evanescence – Fallen Matchbox Twenty – More Than You Think You Are Nickelback – The Long Road
2005	Green Day	American Idiot	Elvis Costello and the Imposters – The Delivery Man Hoobastank – The Reason The Killers – Hot Fuss Velvet Revolver – Contraband
2006	U2	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	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium	John Mayer Trio – Try! Tom Petty – Highway Companion The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers Neil Young – Living with War
2008	Foo Fighters	Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	Daughtry – Daughtry John Fogerty – Revival Bruce Springsteen – Magic Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
2009	Coldplay	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	Green Day	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	Muse	The Resistance	Jeff Beck – Emotion & Commotion Pearl Jam – Backspacer Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Mojo Neil Young – Le Noise
2012	Foo Fighters	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	The Black Keys	El Camino	Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto Muse – The 2nd Law Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball Jack White – Blunderbuss
2014	Led Zeppelin	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	Beck	Morning Phase	Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams The Black Keys – Turn Blue Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye U2 – Songs of Innocence
2016	Muse	Drones	James Bay – Chaos and the Calm Death Cab for Cutie – Kintsugi Highly Suspect – Mister Asylum Slipknot – .5: The Gray Chapter
2017	Cage the Elephant	Tell Me I'm Pretty	Blink-182 – California Gojira – Magma Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor Weezer – Weezer
2018	The War on Drugs	A Deeper Understanding	Mastodon – Emperor of Sand Metallica – Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Nothing More – The Stories We Tell Ourselves Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
2019	Greta Van Fleet	From the Fires	Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog Fall Out Boy – Mania Ghost – Prequelle Weezer – Pacific Daydream
2020	Cage the Elephant	Social Cues	Bring Me the Horizon – Amo The Cranberries – In the End I Prevail – Trauma Rival Sons – Feral Roots
2021	The Strokes	The New Abnormal	Fontaines D.C. – A Hero's Death Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka Grace Potter – Daylight Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury
2022	Foo Fighters	Medicine at Midnight	AC/DC - Power Up Black Pumas - Capitol Cuts - Live From Studio A Chris Cornell - No One Sings Like You Anymore Vol. 1 Paul McCartney - McCartney III
2023	Ozzy Osbourne	Patient Number 9	The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Boy Named If IDLES – Crawler Machine Gun Kelly – Mainstream Sellout Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa
2024	Paramore	This Is Why	Foo Fighters – But Here We Are Greta Van Fleet – Starcatcher Metallica – 72 Seasons Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman...

Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

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• Official site of the Grammy Awards Archived 2014-05-07 at the Wayback Machine