MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative has been awarded since 1997.

MTV Europe Music Award
for Best Alternative
CountryEurope
Presented byMTV
First awarded1997
Currently held byImagine Dragons (2024)
Most awards
Websiteema.mtv.tv/

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

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


Hayley Williams of Paramore and Lana Del Rey are the only female artists that have won more than once.

1990s

Year Artist Ref
1997
The Prodigy [1]
Beck ‡
Blur ‡
Radiohead
The Verve

2000s

Year Artist Ref
2004
Muse [2]
Björk
Franz Ferdinand
The Hives
The Prodigy
2005
System of a Down [3]
Beck
Bloc Party
Goldfrapp
The White Stripes
2006
Muse [4]
Arctic Monkeys
Korn
The Raconteurs
System of a Down
2009
Placebo [5]
Muse
Paramore
The Killers
The Prodigy

2010s

Year Artist Ref
2010
Paramore [6]
Arcade Fire
The Black Keys
Gorillaz
Vampire Weekend
2011
Thirty Seconds to Mars [7]
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
My Chemical Romance
The Strokes
2012
Lana Del Rey [8]
The Black Keys
Florence + The Machine
Foster The People
Jack White
2013
Thirty Seconds to Mars [9]
Arctic Monkeys
Fall Out Boy
Franz Ferdinand
Paramore
2014
Thirty Seconds to Mars [10]
Arcade Fire
Lana Del Rey
Lorde
Paramore
2015
Lana Del Rey [11]
Björk
Fall Out Boy
Florence and the Machine
Twenty One Pilots
2016
Twenty One Pilots [12]
Kings of Leon
Radiohead
Tame Impala
The 1975
2017
Thirty Seconds to Mars [13]
Imagine Dragons
Lana Del Rey
Lorde
The xx
2018
Panic! at the Disco [14]
Fall Out Boy
The 1975
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Twenty One Pilots
2019
FKA Twigs [15]
Lana Del Rey
Solange
Twenty One Pilots
Vampire Weekend

2020s

Year Artist Ref
2020
Hayley Williams [16]
Blackbear
FKA Twigs
Machine Gun Kelly †
Twenty One Pilots ‡
The 1975 ‡
2021
Yungblud [17]
Halsey
Lorde
Machine Gun Kelly †
Twenty One Pilots ‡
Willow ‡
2022
Gorillaz [18]
Imagine Dragons ‡
Panic! At The Disco ‡
Tame Impala
Twenty One Pilots ‡
Yungblud
2023
Lana Del Rey †
Blur
Fall Out Boy ‡
Paramore ‡
Thirty Seconds to Mars ‡
Yungblud
2024
Imagine Dragons ‡ [19]
Hozier ‡
Fontaines D.C.
Lana Del Rey
Twenty One Pilots
Yungblud

See also

References

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