The following list includes the nominees and winners for Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
1990s Year Artist 1990 Aerosmith 1991 R.E.M. 1992 U2 1993 Aerosmith Stone Temple Pilots Soul Asylum Lenny Kravitz 1994 colspan="2" 1995 Live Collective Soul Pearl Jam Tom Petty 1996-1998 colspan="2" 1999 Creed Collective Soul Lenny Kravitz Metallica
2000s Year Artist 2000 Creed 3 Doors Down Metallica Godsmack 2001 Godsmack 3 Doors Down Linkin Park Staind 2002 Puddle of Mudd Creed Nickelback Staind 2003 Audioslave 3 Doors Down Disturbed Trapt 2004 Linkin Park Incubus Jet Three Days Grace 2005 Green Day Breaking Benjamin Papa Roach Velvet Revolver 2006 Nickelback Disturbed Red Hot Chili Peppers Shinedown 2007-2009 colspan="2"
2010s Year Artist 2010 colspan="2" 2011 Train Linkin Park Kings of Leon Mumford & Sons Muse 2012 Coldplay Foster the People The Black Keys Foo Fighters Mumford & Sons 2013 Fun Coldplay Gotye Mumford & Sons Bruce Springsteen 2014 Imagine Dragons Capital Cities Fall Out Boy Lorde Passenger 2015 Hozier Bastille Coldplay Fall Out Boy Lorde 2016 Twenty One Pilots Fall Out Boy Elle King Walk the Moon X Ambassadors 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
2020s Year Artist 2020 Panic! at the Disco Imagine Dragons Tool Twenty One Pilots Tame Impala 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
Superlatives
The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Artist Awards:
Wins Artist 3 Imagine Dragons 2 Aerosmith Zach Bryan Creed Twenty One Pilots
The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Artist nominations: Nominations Artist7 Twenty One Pilots5 Imagine Dragons Linkin Park4 Coldplay3 3 Doors Down Creed Fall Out Boy Mumford & Sons Metallica2 Aerosmith Zach Bryan Collective Soul Godsmack Hozier Noah Kahan Lenny Kravitz Lorde Jelly Roll Staind Machine Gun Kelly Panic! At The Disco X Ambassadors
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