MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video

MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video
Awarded for rock music videos
Country United States
Presented by MTV
First awarded 1989
Last awarded 2017
Website VMA website

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video was first given out in 1989, and it was 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. Finally, in 1997 the award acquired its present name, Best Rock Video, and was presented as such until 2006, as the following year the VMAs were revamped and most original categories were eliminated. In 2008, though, MTV brought back this category, along with several of the others that were retired in 2007.

Aerosmith and Linkin Park are the biggest nominees of this award, with eight nominations apiece. Aerosmith, however, is also the biggest winner, with a total of four wins between 1990 and 1998. Fall Out Boy and the Foo Fighters follow closely behind in terms of nominations, with each band receiving seven (as of 2018). In 1995, White Zombie's bassist Sean Yseult became the first woman to win. In 2014, New Zealand singer Lorde became the first female solo act to win the award with her music video "Royals".

Recipients

Guns N' Roses performing.
Inaugural winner Guns N' Roses
Aerosmith performing.
Aerosmith is the biggest winner and most nominated act, with four wins and eight nominations
Metallica won the award twice
1993 winner Pearl Jam
1994 winner Soundgarden
1999 winner Korn
Limp Bizkit won the award twice
Linkin Park performing.
Three-time winner Linkin Park is one of three acts to have won the award for two consecutive years.
Green Day performing.
Green Day has won the award twice for their music videos "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "21 Guns"
Thirty Seconds to Mars during a performance.
Thirty Seconds to Mars won the award twice
Coldplay performing.
2012 winner Coldplay
Lorde performing holding a mic.
Lorde is the first female singer to win this award
Fall Out Boy standing still while posing for a camera.
2015 winner Fall Out Boy
Twenty One Pilots performing.
2016 winner Twenty One Pilots
Year Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
1989 Guns N' Roses — "Sweet Child o' Mine"

[1]
1990 Aerosmith — "Janie's Got a Gun"

[2]
1991 Aerosmith — "The Other Side"

[3]
1992 Metallica — "Enter Sandman"

[4]
1993 Pearl Jam — "Jeremy"

[5]
1994 Soundgarden — "Black Hole Sun"

[6]
1995 White Zombie — "More Human than Human"

[7]
1996 Metallica — "Until It Sleeps"

[8]
1997 Aerosmith — "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"

[9]
1998 Aerosmith — "Pink"

[10]
1999 Korn — "Freak on a Leash"

[11]
2000 Limp Bizkit — "Break Stuff"

[12]
2001 Limp Bizkit — "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"

[13]
2002 Linkin Park — "In the End"

[14]
2003 Linkin Park — "Somewhere I Belong"

[15]
2004 Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

[16]
2005 Green Day — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"

[17]
2006 AFI — "Miss Murder"

[18]
2007 — —
2008 Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day"

[19]
2009 Green Day — "21 Guns"

[20]
2010 Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Kings and Queens"

[21]
2011 Foo Fighters — "Walk"

[22]
2012 Coldplay — "Paradise"

[23]
2013 Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Up in the Air"

[24]
2014 Lorde — "Royals"

[25]
2015 Fall Out Boy — "Uma Thurman"

[26]
2016 Twenty One Pilots — "Heathens"

[27]
2017 Twenty One Pilots — "Heavydirtysoul"
2018 Imagine Dragons – "Whatever It Takes"

See also

References

  1. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1989". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1990". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1991". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1992". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1993". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  6. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1994". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  7. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1995". MTV. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  8. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1996". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  9. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1997". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  10. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1998". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  11. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 1999". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  12. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2000". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  13. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2001". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  14. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2002". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  15. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2003". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  16. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2004". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  17. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2005". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  18. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2006". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  19. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2008". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  20. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2009". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  21. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2010". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  22. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2011". MTV. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  23. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2012". MTV. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  24. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2013". MTV. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  25. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2014". MTV. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  26. ↑ "MTV Video Music Awards 2015". MTV. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  27. ↑ "2016 VMA Nominations: See the Full List Now". MTV News. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
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