Paramore won two awards at the 2024 Grammy Awards . It was the first time a female-fronted band received the Grammy for Best Rock Album. The win came with the album This Is Why . Hayley's band also won Best Alternative Music Performance with the song "This Is Why" from the same album.
Paramore beat out Foo Fighters , Metallica , Greta Van Fleet , and Queens of the Stone Age for Best Rock Album.
Hayley Williams broke a 25-year drought of female award winners. Since 1999, when singer Sheryl Crow won Best Rock Album for The Globe Sessions, no other woman had been awarded in the category.
Other nominees in this year's Best Alternative Music Performance category were Alvvays with "Belinda Says," Arctic Monkeys with "Body Paint," Boygenius with "Cool About It," and Lana Del Rey with "A&W."
Below is a list of winners by year for Best Rock Album at the Grammys:
1995 — The Rolling Stones , Voodoo Lounge
1996 — Alanis Morissette , Jagged Little Pill
1997 — Sheryl Crow , Sheryl Crow
1998 — John Fogerty , Blue Moon Swamp
1999 — Sheryl Crow , The Globe Sessions
2000 — Santana , Supernatural
2001 — Foo Fighters , This is Nothing Left to Lose
2002 — U2 , All That You Can't Leave Behind
2003 — Bruce Springsteen , The Rising
2004 — Foo Fighters , One by One
2005 — Green Day , American Idiot
2006 — U2 , How to Dismantale an Atomic Bomb
2007 — Red Hot Chili Peppers , Stadium Arcadium
2008 — Foo Fighters , Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
2009 —Coldplay , Viva la
Vida or Death and All His Friends 2010 — Green Day , 21st Century Breakdown
2011 — Muse , The Resistance
2012 — Foo Fighters , Wasting Light
2013 — The Black Keys , El Camino
2014 — Led Zeppelin , Celebration Day
2015 — Beck , Morning Phase
2016 — Muse , Drones
2017 — Cage the Elephant, Tell Me I'm Pretty
2018 — The War on Drugs , A Deeper Understanding
2019 — Greta Van Fleet, From the Firesi
2020 — Cage the Elephant , Social Cues
2021 — The Strokes , The New Abnormal
2022 — Foo Fighters , Medicine at Midnight
2023 — Ozzy Osbourne , Patient Number 9
2024 — Paramore , This Is Why
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