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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]

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

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Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters were the inaugural winners of the award
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David Bowie was posthumously honoured in 2017
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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.[5] She previously won the Best Female Rock Vocal Performance trophy with "Criminal" in 1998
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Work Nominees Ref.
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]

Artists with multiple nominations

See also

References

  1. ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  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.
  8. ^ "2014 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 8, 2013.
  9. ^ Grebey, James (December 5, 2014). "Grammys 2015 Nominees: Sam Smith, HAIM, Iggy Azalea, and More". Spin. Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  10. ^ "Awards Nominations & Winners". April 30, 2017.
  11. ^ "59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  12. ^ "60th Grammy Nominees". Grammy.com. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  13. ^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018
  14. ^ 2021 Nominations List
  15. ^ "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List". GRAMMY.com. November 23, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  16. ^ "2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". GRAMMYs. November 15, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  17. ^ "2024 Grammy Nominations: See The Full Nominees List". The Recording Academy. November 10, 2023. Archived from the original on November 10, 2023. Retrieved November 10, 2023.

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