Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance

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Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance
Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental rock recordings
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Currently held byFiona Apple – "Shameika" (2021)
Websitegrammy.com

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]

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 previously won the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance trophy with "Criminal" in 1998

2010s[]

Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
2012 Foo Fighters "Walk"
  • Coldplay — "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"
  • The Decemberists — "Down by the Water"
  • Mumford & Sons — "The Cave"
  • Radiohead — "Lotus Flower"
 [6]
2013 The Black Keys "Lonely Boy"
[7]
2014 Imagine Dragons "Radioactive"
  • Alabama Shakes — "Always Alright"
  • David Bowie — "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)"
  • Led Zeppelin — "Kashmir (Live)"
  • Queens of the Stone Age — "My God is the Sun"
  • Jack White — "I'm Shakin'"
 [8]
2015 Jack White "Lazaretto"
  • Ryan Adams — "Gimme Something Good"
  • Arctic Monkeys — "Do I Wanna Know?"
  • Beck — "Blue Moon"
  • The Black Keys — "Fever"
 [9]
2016 Alabama Shakes "Don't Wanna Fight"
[10]
2017 David Bowie "Blackstar"
[11]
2018 Leonard Cohen "You Want It Darker"
  • Chris Cornell — "The Promise"
  • Foo Fighters — "Run"
  • Kaleo — "No Good"
  • Nothing More — "Go to War"
 [12]
2019 Chris Cornell "When Bad Does Good"
  • Arctic Monkeys – "Four Out of Five"
  • The Fever 333 – "Made an America"
  • Greta Van Fleet – "Highway Tune"
  • Halestorm – "Uncomfortable"
 [13]

2020s[]

Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
2020 Gary Clark Jr. "This Land"
2021 Fiona Apple "Shameika"
[14]
2022 TBA TBA
  • AC/DC - "Shot in the Dark"
  • Black Pumas - "Know You Better (Live From Capitol Studio A)"
  • Chris Cornell - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
  • Deftones - "Ohms"
  • Foo Fighters - "Making a Fire"
 [15]

Artists with multiple nominations[]

6 nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

  • Jack White
  • Chris Cornell

2 nominations

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ^ "Category Mapper". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
  3. ^ Grammy Awards restructuring
  4. ^ Grammy Blue Book
  5. ^ Nuggent, Annabel (November 24, 2020). "All Grammy nominees for Best Rock Performance are women for the first time in award's history". The Independent. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  6. ^ "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Rock Field". The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011.
  7. ^ "Grammys 2013: Complete list of nominees and winners". Los Angeles Times. February 10, 2013. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  8. ^ 2014 Nominees
  9. ^ Grebey, James (December 5, 2014). "Grammys 2015 Nominees: Sam Smith, HAIM, Iggy Azalea, and More". Spin. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  10. ^ "Awards Nominations & Winners". April 30, 2017.
  11. ^ "59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  12. ^ "60th Grammy Nominees". Grammy.com. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  13. ^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
  14. ^ 2021 Nominations List
  15. ^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. November 23, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.

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