MTV Europe Music Award for Best Album

MTV Europe Music Award for Best Album
Description	Best album released by a European or international artist
Presented by	MTV Europe Music Awards
Website	www.mtvema.com

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Album was first awarded in 1998, before being retired in 2008. Nelly Furtado's 2006 album Loose was the only album that was nominated twice.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1990s

Year	Artist	Album	Ref
1998
	Madonna	Ray of Light	[1]
	All Saints	All Saints
	Beastie Boys	Hello Nasty
	Massive Attack	Mezzanine
	Robbie Williams	Life Thru a Lens
1999
	Boyzone	By Request	[2]
	Backstreet Boys	Millennium
	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
	The Offspring	Americana
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Californication

2000s

Year	Artist	Song	Ref
2000
	Eminem	The Marshall Mathers LP	[3]
	Bon Jovi	Crush
	Macy Gray	On How Life Is
	Moby	Play
	Travis	The Man Who
2001
	Limp Bizkit	Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	[4]
	Dido	No Angel
	Madonna	Music
	Travis	The Invisible Band
	U2	All That You Can't Leave Behind
2002
	Eminem	The Eminem Show	[5]
	Coldplay	A Rush of Blood to the Head
	Kylie Minogue	Fever
	No Doubt	Rock Steady
	Pink	Missundaztood
2003
	Justin Timberlake	Justified	[ citation needed ]
	50 Cent	Get Rich or Die Tryin'
	Christina Aguilera	Stripped
	The White Stripes	Elephant
	Robbie Williams	Escapology
2004
	Usher	Confessions	[6]
	Beyoncé	Dangerously in Love
	The Black Eyed Peas	Elephunk
	Dido	Life for Rent
	Outkast	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2005
	Green Day	American Idiot	[ citation needed ]
	50 Cent	The Massacre
	Coldplay	X&Y
	Gwen Stefani	Love.Angel.Music.Baby
	U2	How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
2006
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium	[7]
	Christina Aguilera	Back to Basics
	Nelly Furtado	Loose
	Madonna	Confessions on a Dance Floor
	Muse	Black Holes & Revelations
2007
	Nelly Furtado	Loose	[8]
	Akon	Konvicted
	Avril Lavigne	The Best Damn Thing
	Linkin Park	Minutes to Midnight
	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
2008
	Britney Spears	Blackout	[9]
	Coldplay	Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
	Duffy	Rockferry
	Alicia Keys	As I Am
	Leona Lewis	Spirit

References

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9. "MTV EMAs name Rick Astley 'Best Act Ever'". NME. November 7, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2011.