Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance

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Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance
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"Not Strong Enough" by Boygenius is the most recent recipient
Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental rock recordings
CountryUnited States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Currently held by Boygenius – "Not Strong Enough" (2024)
Website grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. [1] According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is designed for solo, duo/groups or collaborative (vocal or instrumental) rock recordings and is limited to singles or tracks only. [2]

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This award combines the previous categories for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards and to eliminate the distinctions between solo and duo/groups performances. The Academy argued that any distinction between these performances is difficult to make, as "four-fifths of rock acts are groups, and even solo rock acts tend to be backed by a band". [3]

The award goes to the artist. The producer, engineer and songwriter can apply for a Winners Certificate. [4]

From 2014, this category has also included hard rock performances that were previously screened in the Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance categories, which are now defunct.

Recipients

Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters were the inaugural winners of the award Dave Grohl - Concert for Valor in Washington, D.C. Nov. 11, 2014.jpg
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters were the inaugural winners of the award
David Bowie was posthumously honoured in 2017 David Bowie Chile.jpg
David Bowie was posthumously honoured in 2017
Leonard Cohen posthumously won in 2018 Leonard Cohen 2 2013 (cropped).jpg
Leonard Cohen posthumously won in 2018
2021 recipient Fiona Apple was the first solo female artist to win this category, in a line-up featuring only female performers for the first time. She previously won the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance trophy with "Criminal" in 1998 Fiona Apple by Sachyn Mital (cropped).jpg
2021 recipient Fiona Apple was the first solo female artist to win this category, in a line-up featuring only female performers for the first time. She previously won the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance trophy with "Criminal" in 1998
Year [I] Performing artist(s)WorkNomineesRef.
2012 Foo Fighters "Walk" [6]
2013 The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" [7]
2014 Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" [8]
2015 Jack White "Lazaretto"
 [9]
2016 Alabama Shakes "Don't Wanna Fight" [10]
2017 David Bowie "Blackstar"
 [11]
2018 Leonard Cohen "You Want It Darker" [12]
2019 Chris Cornell "When Bad Does Good" [13]
2020 Gary Clark Jr. "This Land"
2021 Fiona Apple "Shameika"
 [14]
2022 Foo Fighters "Making a Fire" [15]
2023 Brandi Carlile "Broken Horses"
 [16]
2024 Boygenius "Not Strong Enough" [17]
2025 TBATBA [18]

Artists with multiple nominations

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  2. ↑ "Category Mapper". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Grammy Awards restructuring". Archived from the original on December 3, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Grammy Blue Book
  5. ↑ Nuggent, Annabel (November 24, 2020). "All Grammy nominees for Best Rock Performance are women for the first time in award's history". The Independent . Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: Rock Field". The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Grammys 2013: Complete list of nominees and winners". Los Angeles Times. February 10, 2013. ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved April 6, 2017.
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  14. ↑ 2021 Nominations List
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