MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video

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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.

MTV Video Music Award
for Best Rock
Awarded forrock music videos
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First award1989
Currently held byColdplay — "All My Love" (2025)
Most awardsAerosmith (4)
Most nominationsFoo Fighters
Linkin Park (10)
WebsiteVMA website

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. The Foo Fighters and Linkin Park are the most nominated acts in this category, having received ten nominations each. Closely following them is Fall Out Boy, with nine nominations. 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

1980s

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
1989 Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child o' Mine"
  • Aerosmith — "Rag Doll"
  • Def Leppard — "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
  • Metallica — "One"

1990s

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
1990 Aerosmith "Janie's Got a Gun"
  • Faith No More — "Epic"
  • Mötley Crüe — "Kickstart My Heart"
  • Slaughter — "Up All Night"
1991 Aerosmith "The Other Side"
  • AC/DC — "Thunderstruck"
  • Alice in Chains — "Man in the Box"
  • The Black Crowes — "She Talks to Angels"
  • Faith No More — "Falling to Pieces"
  • Guns N' Roses — "You Could Be Mine"
  • Queensrÿche — "Silent Lucidity"
  • Warrant — "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
1992 Metallica "Enter Sandman"
  • Def Leppard — "Let's Get Rocked"
  • Ugly Kid Joe — "Everything About You"
  • Van Halen — "Right Now"
1993 Pearl Jam "Jeremy"
  • Aerosmith — "Livin' on the Edge"
  • Helmet — "Unsung"
  • Nine Inch Nails — "Wish"
1994 Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"
  • Aerosmith — "Cryin'"
  • Anthrax — "Black Lodge"
  • Rollins Band — "Liar"
1995 White Zombie "More Human than Human"
  • Green Day — "Basket Case"
  • Meat Puppets — "We Don't Exist"
  • Stone Temple Pilots — "Interstate Love Song"
1996 Metallica "Until It Sleeps"
  • Alice in Chains — "Again"
  • Marilyn Manson — "Sweet Dreams"
  • Rage Against the Machine — "Bulls on Parade"
1997 Aerosmith "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"
  • Foo Fighters — "Monkey Wrench"
  • Marilyn Manson — "The Beautiful People"
  • Dave Matthews Band — "Crash into Me"
  • Rage Against the Machine — "People of the Sun"
1998 Aerosmith "Pink"
  • Foo Fighters — "Everlong"
  • Dave Matthews Band — "Don't Drink the Water"
  • Metallica — "The Unforgiven II"
1999 Korn "Freak on a Leash"
  • Kid Rock — "Bawitdaba"
  • Lenny Kravitz — "Fly Away"
  • Limp Bizkit — "Nookie"
  • The Offspring — "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"

2000s

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2000 Limp Bizkit "Break Stuff"
  • Creed — "Higher"
  • Kid Rock — "Cowboy"
  • Korn — "Falling Away from Me"
  • Metallica — "I Disappear"
  • Rage Against the Machine — "Sleep Now in the Fire"
2001 Limp Bizkit "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"
  • Aerosmith — "Jaded"
  • Linkin Park — "Crawling"
  • Staind — "It's Been Awhile"
  • Weezer — "Hash Pipe"
2002 Linkin Park "In the End"
  • Creed — "My Sacrifice"
  • Jimmy Eat World — "The Middle"
  • Korn — "Here to Stay"
  • P.O.D. — "Youth of the Nation"
  • System of a Down — "Chop Suey!"
2003 Linkin Park "Somewhere I Belong"
  • Evanescence (featuring Paul McCoy) — "Bring Me to Life"
  • Good Charlotte — "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"
  • Metallica — "St. Anger"
  • The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"
2004 Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
  • The Darkness — "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
  • Evanescence — "My Immortal"
  • Hoobastank — "The Reason"
  • Linkin Park — "Breaking the Habit"
2005 Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
  • Foo Fighters — "Best of You"
  • The Killers — "Mr. Brightside"
  • My Chemical Romance — "Helena"
  • Weezer — "Beverly Hills"
2006 AFI "Miss Murder"
  • Green Day — "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
  • Panic! at the Disco — "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers — "Dani California"
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars — "The Kill"
2007 —
2008 Linkin Park "Shadow of the Day"
  • Fall Out Boy (featuring John Mayer) — "Beat It"
  • Foo Fighters — "The Pretender"
  • Paramore — "Crushcrushcrush"
  • Slipknot — "Psychosocial"
2009 Green Day "21 Guns"
  • Coldplay — "Viva la Vida"
  • Fall Out Boy — "I Don't Care"
  • Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody"
  • Paramore — "Decode"

2010s

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2010 Thirty Seconds to Mars "Kings and Queens"
  • Florence + the Machine — "Dog Days Are Over"
  • MGMT — "Flash Delirium"
  • Muse — "Uprising"
  • Paramore — "Ignorance"
2011 Foo Fighters "Walk"
  • The Black Keys — "Howlin' for You"
  • Cage the Elephant — "Shake Me Down"
  • Foster the People — "Pumped Up Kicks"
  • Mumford & Sons — "The Cave"
2012 Coldplay "Paradise"
  • The Black Keys — "Lonely Boy"
  • Imagine Dragons — "It's Time"
  • Linkin Park — "Burn It Down"
  • Jack White — "Sixteen Saltines"
2013 Thirty Seconds to Mars "Up in the Air"
  • Fall Out Boy — "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)"
  • Imagine Dragons — "Radioactive"
  • Mumford & Sons — "I Will Wait"
  • Vampire Weekend — "Diane Young"
2014 Lorde "Royals"
  • Arctic Monkeys — "Do I Wanna Know?"
  • The Black Keys — "Fever"
  • Imagine Dragons — "Demons"
  • Linkin Park — "Until It's Gone"
2015 Fall Out Boy "Uma Thurman"
  • Arctic Monkeys — "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?"
  • Florence + the Machine — "Ship to Wreck"
  • Hozier — "Take Me to Church"
  • Walk the Moon — "Shut Up and Dance"
2016 Twenty One Pilots "Heathens"
  • All Time Low — "Missing You"
  • Coldplay — "Adventure of a Lifetime"
  • Fall Out Boy (featuring Demi Lovato) — "Irresistible"
  • Panic! at the Disco — "Victorious"
2017 Twenty One Pilots "Heavydirtysoul"
  • Coldplay — "A Head Full of Dreams"
  • Fall Out Boy — "Young and Menace"
  • Foo Fighters — "Run"
  • Green Day — "Bang Bang"
2018 Imagine Dragons "Whatever It Takes"
  • Fall Out Boy — "Champion"
  • Foo Fighters — "The Sky Is a Neighborhood"
  • Linkin Park — "One More Light"
  • Panic! at the Disco — "Say Amen (Saturday Night)"
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Walk on Water"
2019 Panic! at the Disco "High Hopes"
  • The 1975 — "Love It If We Made It"
  • Fall Out Boy — "Bishops Knife Trick"
  • Imagine Dragons — "Natural"
  • Lenny Kravitz — "Low"
  • Twenty One Pilots — "My Blood"

2020s

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2020 Coldplay "Orphans"
  • blink-182 — "Happy Days"
  • Evanescence — "Wasted on You"
  • Fall Out Boy (featuring Wyclef Jean) — "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)"
  • Green Day — "Oh Yeah!"
  • The Killers — "Caution"
2021 John Mayer "Last Train Home"
  • Evanescence — "Use My Voice"
  • Foo Fighters — "Shame Shame"
  • The Killers — "My Own Soul's Warning"
  • Kings of Leon — "The Bandit"
  • Lenny Kravitz — "Raise Vibration"
2022 Red Hot Chili Peppers "Black Summer"
  • Foo Fighters — "Love Dies Young"
  • Muse — "Won't Stand Down"
  • Shinedown — "Planet Zero"
  • Three Days Grace — "So Called Life"
  • Jack White — "Taking Me Back"
2023 Måneskin "The Loneliest"
  • Foo Fighters – "The Teacher"
  • Linkin Park – "Lost"
  • Metallica – "Lux Æterna"
  • Muse – "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Tippa My Tongue"
2024 Lenny Kravitz "Human"
  • Bon Jovi – "Legendary"
  • Coldplay – "Feelslikeimfallinginlove"
  • Green Day – "Dilemma"
  • Kings of Leon – "Mustang"
  • U2 – "Atomic City"
2025 Coldplay "All My Love"
  • Evanescence – "Afterlife (From the Netflix Series Devil May Cry)"
  • Green Day – "One Eyed Bastard"
  • Lenny Kravitz – "Honey"
  • Linkin Park – "The Emptiness Machine"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "The Contract"

Statistics

Multiple wins

4 wins
  • Aerosmith
3 wins
  • Coldplay
  • Linkin Park
2 wins
  • Metallica
  • Green Day
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • Twenty One Pilots

Multiple nominations

10 nominations
  • Foo Fighters
  • Linkin Park
9 nominations
  • Fall Out Boy
8 nominations
  • Aerosmith
  • Green Day
7 nominations
  • Coldplay
  • Metallica
5 nominations
  • Evanescence
  • Lenny Kravitz
4 nominations
  • The Killers
  • Panic! at the Disco
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • Twenty One Pilots
3 nominations
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Korn
  • Paramore
  • Muse
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Kings of Leon
  • The Black Keys
2 nominations
  • Guns N' Roses
  • Def Leppard
  • Faith No More
  • Alice in Chains
  • Marilyn Manson
  • Creed
  • Kid Rock
  • Weezer
  • Mumford & Sons
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Florence + the Machine
  • Jack White
  • John Mayer

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