MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video
MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock | |
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Awarded for | rock music videos |
Country | United States |
Presented by | MTV |
First awarded | 1989 |
Currently held by | John Mayer — "Last Train Home" (2021) |
Website | VMA website |
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock was first given out in 1989, one of the four original genre categories added to the VMAs that year. In its first year, the award was called Best Heavy Metal Video, and from 1990 to 1995, it was renamed Best Metal/Hard Rock Video. The category underwent a third, brief name change in 1996, when it was renamed Best Hard Rock Video. In 1997, the award acquired its most enduring name, Best Rock Video, which it retained until 2016. The following year, the word "Video" was removed from all genre categories at the VMAs (despite nominations still going to specific videos), giving this award its current name: Best Rock.
Like all other genre categories at the VMAs, this category was retired briefly in 2007, when the VMAs were revamped and most original categories were eliminated. In 2008, though, MTV brought back this award, along with several of the others that had been retired in 2007.
Aerosmith is the most frequent winner of this award, with a total of four wins between 1990 and 1998. Fall Out Boy, meanwhile, is the most nominated act in this category, having received nine nominations as of 2020. Closely following them are Aerosmith and Linkin Park, with eight nominations, and the Foo Fighters with seven. In 1995, White Zombie's bassist Sean Yseult became the first woman to win this award, while in 2014, New Zealand singer Lorde became the first female solo act to win this male-dominated category.
Recipients[]
![Guns N' Roses performing.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/AXL_%26_SLASH_%2827434284284%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/230px-AXL_%26_SLASH_%2827434284284%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![Aerosmith performing.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Aerosmith2007.jpg/230px-Aerosmith2007.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Metallica_London_2008-09-15_Kirk_and_James.jpg/230px-Metallica_London_2008-09-15_Kirk_and_James.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PJ-Albany.jpg/230px-PJ-Albany.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Soundgarden_Chicago.jpg/230px-Soundgarden_Chicago.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kornmaa2006.jpg/230px-Kornmaa2006.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Limp_Bizkit.jpg/230px-Limp_Bizkit.jpg)
![Linkin Park performing.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Linkin_Park_at_the_Novarock_Festival.jpg/230px-Linkin_Park_at_the_Novarock_Festival.jpg)
![Green Day performing.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Greenday2010.jpg/230px-Greenday2010.jpg)
![Thirty Seconds to Mars during a performance.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Thirty_Seconds_to_Mars%2C_Moscow_%283%29.jpg/230px-Thirty_Seconds_to_Mars%2C_Moscow_%283%29.jpg)
![Coldplay performing.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Coldplay_Viva_La_Vida_Tour_in_Hannover_August_25th_2009.jpg/230px-Coldplay_Viva_La_Vida_Tour_in_Hannover_August_25th_2009.jpg)
![Lorde performing holding a mic.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Lorde_Lollapalooza_2014_%282%29.jpg/230px-Lorde_Lollapalooza_2014_%282%29.jpg)
![Fall Out Boy standing still while posing for a camera.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/FallOutBoy.jpg/230px-FallOutBoy.jpg)
![Twenty One Pilots performing.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Twenty_one_pilots_1.jpg/230px-Twenty_one_pilots_1.jpg)
Year | Winner(s) | Nominees | Ref. |
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1989 | Guns N' Roses — "Sweet Child o' Mine" |
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[1] |
1990 | Aerosmith — "Janie's Got a Gun" |
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[2] |
1991 | Aerosmith — "The Other Side" |
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[3] |
1992 | Metallica — "Enter Sandman" |
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[4] |
1993 | Pearl Jam — "Jeremy" |
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[5] |
1994 | Soundgarden — "Black Hole Sun" |
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[6] |
1995 | White Zombie — "More Human than Human" |
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[7] |
1996 | Metallica — "Until It Sleeps" |
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[8] |
1997 | Aerosmith — "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" |
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[9] |
1998 | Aerosmith — "Pink" |
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[10] |
1999 | Korn — "Freak on a Leash" |
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[11] |
2000 | Limp Bizkit — "Break Stuff" |
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[12] |
2001 | Limp Bizkit — "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" | [13] | |
2002 | Linkin Park — "In the End" |
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[14] |
2003 | Linkin Park — "Somewhere I Belong" |
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[15] |
2004 | Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" |
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[16] |
2005 | Green Day — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" |
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[17] |
2006 | AFI — "Miss Murder" |
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[18] |
2007 | — | — | |
2008 | Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day" |
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[19] |
2009 | Green Day — "21 Guns" |
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[20] |
2010 | Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Kings and Queens" |
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[21] |
2011 | Foo Fighters — "Walk" |
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[22] |
2012 | Coldplay — "Paradise" |
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[23] |
2013 | Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Up in the Air" |
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[24] |
2014 | Lorde — "Royals" |
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[25] |
2015 | Fall Out Boy — "Uma Thurman" |
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[26] |
2016 | Twenty One Pilots — "Heathens" |
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[27] |
2017 | Twenty One Pilots — "Heavydirtysoul" |
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2018 | Imagine Dragons — "Whatever It Takes" |
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2019 | Panic! at the Disco — "High Hopes" |
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[28] |
2020 | Coldplay — "Orphans" |
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2021 | John Mayer — "Last Train Home" |
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[29] |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1989". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1990". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1991". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1992". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1993". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1994". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1995". MTV. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1996". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1997". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1998". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1999". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2000". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
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- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2008". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
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- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2010". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2011". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2012". MTV. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2013". MTV. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2014". MTV. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 2015". MTV. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- ^ "2016 VMA Nominations: See the Full List Now". MTV News. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- ^ "Here Are All the Winners From the 2019 MTV VMAs". Billboard. August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
- ^ Serrano, Athena (August 11, 2021). "The 2021 VMA Nominations Are Here: Justin Bieber, Megan Thee Stallion, and More". MTV News. MTV. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
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