Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance
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. According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide it is designed for solo, duo/groups or collaborative rock recordings and is limited to singles or tracks only.
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".
The award goes to the artist. The producer, engineer and songwriter can apply for a Winners Certificate.
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
| Year | Performing artist | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2012 | Foo Fighters | "Walk" | ||
| 2013 | The Black Keys | "Lonely Boy" | ||
| 2014 | Imagine Dragons | "Radioactive" | ||
| 2015 | Jack White | "Lazaretto" | ||
| 2016 | Alabama Shakes | "Don't Wanna Fight" | ||
| 2017 | David Bowie | "Blackstar" | ||
| 2018 | Leonard Cohen | "You Want It Darker" | ||
| 2019 | Chris Cornell | "When Bad Does Good" | ||
| 2020 | Gary Clark Jr. | "This Land" | ||
| 2021 | Fiona Apple | "Shameika" | ||
| 2022 | Foo Fighters | "Making a Fire" | ||
| 2023 | Brandi Carlile | "Broken Horses" | ||
| 2024 | Boygenius | "Not Strong Enough" | ||
| 2025 | The Beatles | "Now and Then" | ||
| 2026 | Yungblud featuring Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman and II | "Changes Back to the Beginning" |
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Artists with multiple nominations
;6 nominations- Brittany Howard
- Foo Fighters
- Alabama Shakes
- The Black Keys
- Arctic Monkeys
- Chris Cornell
- Jack White
- Beck
- Black Pumas
- David Bowie
- Coldplay
- Idles
- Mumford & Sons
- Phoebe Bridgers
- Turnstile