MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video explained

MTV Video Music Award
for Best Rock
Awarded For:rock music videos
Presenter:MTV
Country:United States
Year:1989
Holder:Måneskin — "The Loneliest" (2023)
Most Awards:Aerosmith (4)
Most Nominations:Foo Fighters (10)
Website:VMA website

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock was first given out in, 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, 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 are the most nominated acts in this category, having received ten nominations. Closely following them are Aerosmith and Linkin Park, with eight 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

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Winner(s)VideoNominees
Guns N' Roses"Sweet Child o' Mine"[1]

1990s

Year! scope="col" style="width:175px;"
Winner(s)VideoNominees
Aerosmith"Janie's Got a Gun"[2]
Aerosmith"The Other Side"[3]
Metallica"Enter Sandman"[4]
Pearl Jam"Jeremy"[5]
Soundgarden"Black Hole Sun"[6]
White Zombie"More Human than Human"[7]
Metallica"Until It Sleeps"[8]
Aerosmith"Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"[9]
Aerosmith"Pink"[10]
Korn"Freak on a Leash"[11]

2000s

Year! scope="col" style="width:175px;"
Winner(s)VideoNominees
Limp Bizkit"Break Stuff"[12]
Limp Bizkit"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"[13]
Linkin Park"In the End"[14]
Linkin Park"Somewhere I Belong"[15]
Jet"Are You Gonna Be My Girl"[16]
Green Day"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"[17]
AFI"Miss Murder"[18]
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Linkin Park"Shadow of the Day"[19]
Green Day"21 Guns"[20]

2010s

Year! scope="col" style="width:175px;"
Winner(s)VideoNominees
Thirty Seconds to Mars"Kings and Queens"[21]
Foo Fighters"Walk"[22]
Coldplay"Paradise"[23]
Thirty Seconds to Mars"Up in the Air"[24]
Lorde"Royals"[25]
Fall Out Boy"Uma Thurman"[26]
Twenty One Pilots"Heathens"[27]
Twenty One Pilots"Heavydirtysoul"[28]
Imagine Dragons"Whatever It Takes"[29]
Panic! at the Disco"High Hopes"[30]

2020s

Year! scope="col" style="width:162px;"
Winner(s)VideoNominees
Coldplay"Orphans"[31]
John Mayer"Last Train Home"[32]
Red Hot Chili Peppers"Black Summer"[33]
Måneskin"The Loneliest"[34]
2024TBDTBD[35]

See also

Notes and References

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  33. Grein. Paul. Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow & Kendrick Lamar Lead 2022 MTV VMA Nominations: Full List. July 26, 2022 . Billboard. July 26, 2022.
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