Billboard Rock Artist of the Year

Entertainment: Music Awards: Billboard

The Billboard Awards were first presented in 1990. Since that time a number of awards are no longer presented, new awards began and other awards morphed into different categories. We attempted to figure out which awards morphed or combined and thus those categories are certainly not official.

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10

1990

Sinead O'Connor

Vocalist

31.97% (47 of 147 votes)

20

1990

Michael Penn

Vocalist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

18

1991

C+C Music Factory

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

8

1993

Aerosmith

Musicians

33.33% (20 of 60 votes)

4

1995

Live

Musicians

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

7

1999

Creed

Musicians

40.74% (11 of 27 votes)

6

2000

Creed

Musicians

40.74% (11 of 27 votes)

22

2001

Godsmack

Musicians

0% (0 of 2 votes)

21

2002

Puddle of Mudd

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

2003

Audioslave

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

2

2005

Green Day

Musicians

71.43% (5 of 7 votes)

1

2011

Train

Musicians

100% (1 of 1 votes)

5

2012

Coldplay

Musicians

42.86% (21 of 49 votes)

9

2013

Fun

Musicians

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

17

2014

Imagine Dragons

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

11

2015

Hozier

Musician

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

12

2016

twenty one pilots

Musicians

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

13

2017

twenty one pilots

Musicians

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

14

2018

Imagine Dragons

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

15

2019

Imagine Dragons

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

16

2020

Panic! at the Disco

Musicians

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

2021

Machine Gun Kelly (Rapper)

Vocalist

68.08% (305 of 448 votes)