Best Rock Album

2012 • 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2010 and Aug 30, 2011

2012 Winner is Foo Fighters with "Wasting Light"

Wasting Light

Foo Fighters

Nominees 2012

Winners

Year Winner Nomination Actions
2026 Turnstile NEVER ENOUGH All Nominees
2025 Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds All Nominees
2024 Paramore This Is Why All Nominees
2023 Ozzy Osbourne Patient Number 9 All Nominees
2022 Foo Fighters Medicine At Midnight All Nominees
2021 The Strokes The New Abnormal All Nominees
2020 Cage The Elephant Social Cues All Nominees
2019 Greta Van Fleet From The Fires All Nominees
2018 The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding All Nominees
2017 Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty All Nominees
2016 Muse Drones All Nominees
2015 Beck Morning Phase All Nominees
2014 Led Zeppelin Celebration Day All Nominees
2013 The Black Keys El Camino All Nominees
2012 Foo Fighters Wasting Light All Nominees
2011 Muse The Resistance All Nominees
2010 Green Day 21st Century Breakdown All Nominees
2009 Coldplay Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends All Nominees
2008 Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace All Nominees
2007 Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium All Nominees
2006 U2 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb All Nominees
2005 Green Day American Idiot All Nominees
2004 Foo Fighters One By One All Nominees
2003 Bruce Springsteen The Rising All Nominees
2002 U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind All Nominees
2001 Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left To Lose All Nominees
2000 Santana Supernatural All Nominees
1999 Sheryl Crow The Globe Sessions All Nominees
1998 John Fogerty Blue Moon Swamp All Nominees
1997 Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow All Nominees
1996 Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill All Nominees
1995 Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge All Nominees

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