MTV Europe Music Award for Best Rock

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Rock has been awarded since 1994. During the 2002 ceremony the category was separated, creating an additional award entitled Best Hard Rock Act. The category was briefly retitled to this during the 2007 and 2008 ceremonies, before reverting to its original name during the following year. Linkin Park holds the most wins, with five, followed by Coldplay with four.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

† indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video–winning artist.

‡ indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video–nominated artist that same year.

1990s

Year	Artist	Ref
1994
	Aerosmith ‡	^[1]
	Metallica
	Rage Against the Machine
	Soundgarden †
	Therapy?
1995
	Bon Jovi	^[2]
	Green Day ‡
	Oasis
	The Offspring
	Therapy?
1996
	The Smashing Pumpkins	^[3]
	Bon Jovi
	Die Toten Hosen
	Metallica †
	Oasis
1997
	Oasis	^[4]
	Aerosmith †
	Jon Bon Jovi
	Bush
	Skunk Anansie
1998
	Aerosmith †	^[5]
	Garbage
	Marilyn Manson
	Rammstein
	The Smashing Pumpkins
1999
	The Offspring ‡	^[6]
	The Cardigans
	Lenny Kravitz ‡
	Marilyn Manson
	Red Hot Chili Peppers

2000s

Year	Artist	Ref
2000
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	^[7]
	Bon Jovi
	Foo Fighters
	Korn ‡
	Limp Bizkit †
2001
	Blink 182	^[8]
	Crazy Town
	Limp Bizkit †
	Linkin Park ‡
	U2
2002
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	^[9]
	Bon Jovi
	Coldplay
	Nickelback
	U2
	Best Hard Rock Act
	Linkin Park †
	Korn ‡
	P.O.D. ‡
	Puddle of Mudd
	System of a Down ‡
2003
	The White Stripes	^[10]
	Good Charlotte ‡
	Linkin Park †
	Metallica ‡
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
2004
	Linkin Park ‡	^[11]
	The Darkness ‡
	Good Charlotte
	Green Day
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
2005
	Green Day †	^[12]
	Coldplay
	Foo Fighters ‡
	Franz Ferdinand
	U2
2006
	The Killers	^[13]
	Evanescence
	Keane
	Red Hot Chili Peppers ‡
	The Strokes
2007
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	^[14]
	Evanescence
	Fall Out Boy
	Linkin Park
	My Chemical Romance
2008
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	^[15]
	Linkin Park †
	Metallica
	Paramore ‡
	Slipknot ‡
2009
	Green Day †	^[16]
	Foo Fighters
	Kings of Leon ‡
	Linkin Park
	U2

2010s

Year	Artist	Ref
2010
	Thirty Seconds to Mars †	^[17]
	Kings of Leon
	Linkin Park
	Muse ‡
	Ozzy Osbourne
2011
	Linkin Park	^[18]
	Coldplay
	Foo Fighters †
	Kings of Leon
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
2012
	Linkin Park ‡	^[19]
	Coldplay †
	Green Day
	The Killers
	Muse
2013
	Green Day	^[20]
	Black Sabbath
	The Killers
	Kings of Leon
	Queens of the Stone Age
2014
	Linkin Park ‡	^[21]
	Arctic Monkeys ‡
	The Black Keys ‡
	Coldplay
	Imagine Dragons ‡
2015
	Coldplay	^[22]
	Foo Fighters
	Muse
	Royal Blood
	AC/DC
2016
	Coldplay ‡	^[23]
	Green Day
	Metallica
	Muse
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
2017
	Coldplay ‡	^[24]
	Foo Fighters ‡
	Royal Blood
	The Killers
	U2
2018
	5 Seconds of Summer	^[25]
	Foo Fighters ‡
	Imagine Dragons †
	Muse
	U2
2019
	Green Day	^[26]
	Imagine Dragons ‡
	Liam Gallagher
	Panic! at the Disco †
	The 1975 ‡

2020s

Year	Artist	Ref
2020
	Coldplay †	^[27]
	Green Day ‡
	Liam Gallagher
	Pearl Jam
	Tame Impala
	The Killers ‡
2021
	Måneskin	^[28]
	Coldplay
	Foo Fighters
	Imagine Dragons
	Kings of Leon
	The Killers
2022
	Muse	^[29]
	Foo Fighters
	Måneskin
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
	Liam Gallagher
	The Killers
2023
	Måneskin	^[30]
	Arctic Monkeys
	Foo Fighters
	Metallica
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Killers

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins	Artist
5	Linkin Park
4	Coldplay
4	Green Day
3	Thirty Seconds to Mars
2	Aerosmith
	Måneskin
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
1	Blink 182
	Bon Jovi
	Oasis
	The Killers
	The Offspring
	The Smashing Pumpkins
	The White Stripes
	5 Seconds of Summer

Nominations	Artist
11	Linkin Park
10	Coldplay
9	Foo Fighters
	Green Day
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
7	The Killers
6	Muse
6	U2

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