MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative has been awarded since 1997.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1990s

Year	Artist	Ref
1997
	The Prodigy	[1]
	Beck
	Blur
	Radiohead
	The Verve
1998 – 1999	N/A

2000s

Year	Artist	Ref
2000 – 2003	N/A
2004
	Muse	[2]
	Björk
	Franz Ferdinand
	The Hives
	The Prodigy
2005
	System of a Down	[3]
	Beck
	Bloc Party
	Goldfrapp
	The White Stripes
2006
	Muse	[4]
	Arctic Monkeys
	Korn
	The Raconteurs
	System of a Down
2007 – 2008	N/A
2009
	Placebo	[5]
	Muse
	Paramore
	The Killers
	The Prodigy

2010s

Year	Artist	Ref
2010
	Paramore	[6]
	Arcade Fire
	Gorillaz
	The Gossip
	Vampire Weekend
2011
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	[7]
	Arctic Monkeys
	Arcade Fire
	The Strokes
	My Chemical Romance
2012
	Lana Del Rey	[8]
	Arctic Monkeys
	The Black Keys
	Florence and the Machine
	Jack White
2013
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	N/A
	Arctic Monkeys
	Fall Out Boy
	Franz Ferdinand
	Paramore
2014
	Thirty Seconds to Mars	[9]
	Fall Out Boy
	Lana Del Rey
	Lorde
	Paramore
2015
	Lana Del Rey	[10]
	Lorde
	Florence and the Machine
	Fall Out Boy
	Twenty One Pilots
2016
	Twenty One Pilots	[11]
	Kings of Leon
	Radiohead
	Tame Impala
	The 1975

See also

• MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video

References

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