MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock was first given out in 1989, one of the four original genre categories added to the VMAs that year.

The category underwent a third, brief name change in 1996, when it was renamed Best Hard Rock Video.

In 1997, the award acquired its most enduring name, Best Rock Video, which it retained until 2016.

Aerosmith is the most frequent winner of this award, with a total of four wins between 1990 and 1998.

In 1995, White Zombie's bassist Sean Yseult became the first woman to win this award, while in 2014, New Zealand singer Lorde became the first female solo act to win this male-dominated category.

Guns N' Roses performing.
Inaugural winner Guns N' Roses
Aerosmith performing.
Aerosmith won the award four times
Metallica won the award twice
1993 winner Pearl Jam
1994 winner Soundgarden
1999 winner Korn
Limp Bizkit won the award twice
Linkin Park performing.
Three-time winner Linkin Park is one of three acts to have won the award for two consecutive years.
Green Day performing.
Green Day has won the award twice for their music videos " Boulevard of Broken Dreams " and " 21 Guns "
Thirty Seconds to Mars during a performance.
Thirty Seconds to Mars won the award twice
Coldplay performing.
Two-time winner Coldplay
Lorde performing holding a mic.
Lorde is the first female singer to win this award
Fall Out Boy standing still while posing for a camera.
2015 winner Fall Out Boy
Twenty One Pilots performing.
Two-time winner Twenty One Pilots
2024 winner Lenny Kravitz