Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist

The following list includes the nominees and winners for Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist.

Winners and nominees

Year Musician Other nominees Ref.
1990 Aerosmith — [1]
1991 R.E.M. —
1992 U2 — [2]
1993 Aerosmith Stone Temple Pilots
Soul Asylum
Lenny Kravitz 		[3]
1995 Live Collective Soul
Pearl Jam
Tom Petty 		[4]
1999 Creed Metallica
Lenny Kravitz
Collective Soul
 [5]
2000 Creed 3 Doors Down
Metallica
Godsmack 		[6]
2001 Godsmack 3 Doors Down
Linkin Park
Staind 		[7]
2002 Puddle of Mudd Creed
Nickelback
Staind 		[8]
2003 Audioslave 3 Doors Down
Disturbed
Trapt 		[9]
2004 Linkin Park Incubus
Jet
Three Days Grace
2005 Green Day Breaking Benjamin
Papa Roach
Velvet Revolver 		[10]
2006 Nickelback Disturbed
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Shinedown
2011 Train Linkin Park
Kings of Leon
Mumford & Sons
Muse 		[11]
2012 Coldplay Foster the People
The Black Keys
Foo Fighters
Mumford & Sons 		[12]
2013 Fun Coldplay
Gotye
Mumford & Sons
Bruce Springsteen 		[13]
2014 Imagine Dragons Capital Cities
Fall Out Boy
Lorde
Passenger 		[14]
2015 Hozier Bastille
Coldplay
Fall Out Boy
Lorde 		[15]
2016 Twenty One Pilots Fall Out Boy
Elle King
Walk the Moon
X Ambassadors 		[16]
2017 Twenty One Pilots Coldplay
The Lumineers
Metallica
X Ambassadors
2018 Imagine Dragons Linkin Park
Portugal. The Man
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Twenty One Pilots
2019 Imagine Dragons Lovelytheband
Panic! At The Disco
Queen
Twenty One Pilots
2020 Panic! at the Disco Imagine Dragons
Tool
Twenty One Pilots
Tame Impala 		[17]
2021 Machine Gun Kelly AJR
AC/DC
Five Finger Death Punch
Twenty One Pilots
2022 Glass Animals Imagine Dragons
Machine Gun Kelly
Maneskin
Twenty One Pilots
2023 Zach Bryan Jelly Roll
Noah Kahan
Steve Lacy
Stephen Sanchez
2024 Zach Bryan Hozier
Jelly Roll
Noah Kahan
Linkin Park 		[18]

Superlatives

References

  1. ^ "1990 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  2. ^ "1992 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  3. ^ "1992 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  4. ^ "1995 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  5. ^ "1999 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  6. ^ "2000 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  7. ^ "2001 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  8. ^ "2002 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  9. ^ "2003 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  10. ^ "2005 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  11. ^ "2011 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  12. ^ "2012 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  13. ^ "2013 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  14. ^ "2014 Billboard Music Awards". awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  15. ^ "2015 Billboard Music Awards". Variety. May 17, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  16. ^ "2016 Billboard Music Awards". Billboard.com. May 22, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  17. ^ "2020 Billboard Music Awards". Billboard.com. September 22, 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  18. ^ Garcia, thania (December 12, 2024). "Billboard Music Awards 2024: Chappell Roan Wins Top New Artist, Taylor Swift Picks Up 10 Awards". Variety. Retrieved December 13, 2024.