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 2015
Official 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. Firstly, the award was called the Best Heavy Metal Video. From 1990 to 1995, it was called as Best Metal/Hard Rock Video, and in 1996, the award was once again renamed for Best Hard Rock Video. Finally, in 1997 the award acquired its present and more general name, Best Rock Video, as, after 1998, acts which would have previously been eligible for the Best Alternative Video award became eligible for this one. It was not given out in 2007, as 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 is both the biggest winner and nominated act, with eight nominations and winning four of these. Linkin Park holds the honor with the second most nominations with seven, while Metallica trails behind with six. In 2014, New Zealand singer Lorde became the first female 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
Linkin Park performing.
Three-time winner Linkin Park is one of the two acts to win 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 and only female act to win this award
Fall Out Boy during a performance.
2015 winner Fall Out Boy
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]

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. 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. ↑ "2015 MTV Video Music Awards Nominees Revealed: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran & More". Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
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