Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist explained

The following list includes the nominees and winners for Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist.

Winners and nominees

Year	Musician	Other nominees	Ref.
1990	Aerosmith		^[1]
1991	R.E.M.
1992	U2		^[2]
1993	Aerosmith	Stone Temple Pilots Soul Asylum Lenny Kravitz	^[3]
1995	Live	Collective Soul Pearl Jam Tom Petty	^[4]
1999	Creed	Metallica Lenny Kravitz Collective Soul	^[5]
2000	Creed	3 Doors Down Metallica Godsmack	^[6]
2001	Godsmack	3 Doors Down Linkin Park Staind	^[7]
2002	Puddle of Mudd	Creed Nickelback Staind	^[8]
2003	Audioslave	3 Doors Down Disturbed Trapt	^[9]
2004	Linkin Park	Incubus Jet Three Days Grace
2005	Green Day	Breaking Benjamin Papa Roach Velvet Revolver	^[10]
2006	Nickelback	Disturbed Red Hot Chili Peppers Shinedown
2011	Train	Linkin Park Kings of Leon Mumford & Sons Muse	^[11]
2012	Coldplay	Foster the People The Black Keys Foo Fighters Mumford & Sons	^[12]
2013	Fun	Coldplay Gotye Mumford & Sons Bruce Springsteen	^[13]
2014	Imagine Dragons	Capital Cities Fall Out Boy Lorde Passenger	^[14]
2015	Hozier	Bastille Coldplay Fall Out Boy Lorde	^[15]
2016	Twenty One Pilots	Fall Out Boy Elle King Walk the Moon X Ambassadors	^[16]
2017	Twenty One Pilots	Coldplay The Lumineers Metallica X Ambassadors
2018	Imagine Dragons	Linkin Park Portugal. The Man Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Twenty One Pilots
2019	Imagine Dragons	Lovelytheband Panic! At The Disco Queen Twenty One Pilots
2020	Panic! at the Disco	Imagine Dragons Tool Twenty One Pilots Tame Impala	^[17]
2021	Machine Gun Kelly	AJR AC/DC Five Finger Death Punch Twenty One Pilots
2022	Glass Animals	Imagine Dragons Machine Gun Kelly Maneskin Twenty One Pilots
2023	Zach Bryan	Jelly Roll Noah Kahan Steve Lacy Stephen Sanchez
2024		Zach Bryan Hozier Jelly Roll Noah Kahan Linkin Park	^[18]

Superlatives

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Artist Awards:

Wins	Artist
3	Imagine Dragons
2	Aerosmith
Creed
Twenty One Pilots

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Artist nominations:

Nominations	Artist
7	Twenty One Pilots
5	Imagine Dragons
	Linkin Park
4	Coldplay
3	3 Doors Down
	Creed
	Fall Out Boy
	Mumford & Sons
	Metallica
2	Aerosmith
	Zach Bryan
	Collective Soul
	Godsmack
	Hozier
	Noah Kahan
	Lenny Kravitz
	Lorde
	Jelly Roll
	Staind
	Machine Gun Kelly
	Panic! At The Disco
	X Ambassadors

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1990 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
2. Web site: 1992 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
3. Web site: 1992 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
4. Web site: 1995 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
5. Web site: 1999 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
6. Web site: 2000 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
7. Web site: 2001 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
8. Web site: 2002 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
9. Web site: 2003 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
10. Web site: 2005 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
11. Web site: 2011 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
12. Web site: 2012 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
13. Web site: 2013 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
14. Web site: 2014 Billboard Music Awards . awardsandwinners . October 23, 2016.
15. Web site: 2015 Billboard Music Awards . May 17, 2015 . . October 23, 2016.
16. Web site: 2016 Billboard Music Awards . May 22, 2016 . . October 23, 2016.
17. Web site: 2020 Billboard Music Awards . September 22, 2020 . . September 23, 2020.
18. Grein . Paul . Zach Bryan, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen & Sabrina Carpenter Are Top 2024 Billboard Music Awards Finalists: Full List . . November 27, 2024 . November 25, 2024.