Best Alternative Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album recognizes artistic excellence in alternative music albums. Alternative music embraces attributes of progression and innovation, and may include recordings that do not fit into other genre categories.

66th Annual Grammy Awards • 2024

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2022 and Aug 30, 2023

boygenius won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album with "The Record"

Winners & Nominees 2024

Winner
Nominees
  • boygenius

    The Record

    boygenius

  • Arctic Monkeys

    The Car

    Arctic Monkeys

  • Lana Del Rey

    Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

    Lana Del Rey

  • Gorillaz

    Cracker Island

    Gorillaz

  • PJ Harvey

    I Inside The Old Year Dying

    PJ Harvey

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Year Winner Work
2026 Cure Songs Of A Lost World All Nominees
2025 St. Vincent All Born Screaming All Nominees
2024 boygenius The Record All Nominees
2023 Wet Leg Wet Leg All Nominees
2022 St. Vincent Daddy's Home All Nominees
2021 Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters All Nominees
2020 Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride All Nominees
2019 Beck Colors All Nominees
2018 The National Sleep Well Beast All Nominees
2017 David Bowie Blackstar All Nominees
2016 Alabama Shakes Sound & Color All Nominees
2015 St. Vincent St. Vincent All Nominees
2014 Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City All Nominees
2013 Gotye Making Mirrors All Nominees
2012 Bon Iver Bon Iver All Nominees
2011 The Black Keys Brothers All Nominees
2010 Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix All Nominees
2009 Radiohead In Rainbows All Nominees
2008 White Stripes Icky Thump All Nominees
2007 Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere All Nominees
2006 White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan All Nominees
2005 Wilco A Ghost Is Born All Nominees
2004 White Stripes Elephant All Nominees
2003 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head All Nominees
2002 Coldplay Parachutes All Nominees
2001 Radiohead Kid A All Nominees
2000 Beck Mutations All Nominees
1999 Beastie Boys Hello Nasty All Nominees
1998 Radiohead Ok Computer All Nominees
1997 Beck Odelay All Nominees
1996 Nirvana MTV Unplugged In New York All Nominees
1995 Green Day Dookie All Nominees
1994 U2 Zooropa All Nominees
1993 Tom Waits Bone Machine All Nominees
1992 R.E.M. Out Of Time All Nominees
1991 Sinéad O'Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got All Nominees
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