Alternative Music Album
Starting with Sinead O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" in 1991 the Grammy Awards have awarded their Alternative Music Album Performance Award throughout the years.
Multiple winners of the Alternative Music Grammy have included Beck, Radiohead, Coldplay, and the White Stripes.
| 2008 The White Stripes ("Icky Thump") | |
| Other Nominees: Lily Allen (Alright Still…); Arcade Fire (Neon Bible); Bjork (Volta); The Shins (Wincing The Night Away) | |
| 2007 Gnarls Barkley ("St Elsewhere") | |
| Other Nominees: Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not); The Flaming Lips (At War With the Mystics); Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Show Your Bones); Thom Yorke (The Eraser) | |
| 2006 White Stripes ("Get Behind Me Satan") | |
| Other Nominees: Arcade Fire (Funeral); Beck (Guero); Death Cab For Cutie (Plans); Franz Ferdinand (You Could Have It So Much Better) | |
| 2005 Wilco ("A Ghost Is Born") |  
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| Other Nominees: Bjork (Medulla); Franz Ferdinand (Franz Ferdinand); PJ Harvey (Uh Huh Her); Modest Mouse (Good News For People Who Love Bad News) | |
| 2004 White Stripes ("Elephant") | |
| Other Nominees: The Flaming Lips (Fight Test); Radiohead (Hail To the Thief); Sigur Ros (Untitled); Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Fever To Tell) | |
| 2003 Coldplay ("A Rush of Blood To the Head") | 
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| Other Nominees: Beck (Sea Change); Clinic (Walking With Thee); Elvis Costello (Cruel Smile); Soundtrack Of Our Lives (Behind the Music) | |
| 2002 Coldplay ("Parachutes") | |
| Other Nominees: Tori Amos (Strange Little Girls); Bjork (Vespertine); Fatboy Slim (Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars); Radiohead (Amnesiac) | |
| 2001 Radiohead ("Kid A") | |
| Other Nominees: Fiona Apple (When the Pawn); Beck (Midnite Vultures); The Cure (Bloodflowers); Paul McCartney (Liverpool Sound Collage) | |
| 2000 Beck ("Mutations") | |
| Other Nominees: Tori Amos (To Venus and Back); Fatboy Slim (You've Come A Long Way Baby); Moby (Play); Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile) | |
| 1999 Beastie Boys ("Hello Nasty") | |
| Other Nominees: Tori Amos (From the Choirgirl Hotel); PJ Harvey (Is This Desire); Radiohead (Airbag/How Am I Driving?); Smashing Pumpkins (Adore) | |
| 1998 Radiohead ("OK Computer") | |
| Other Nominees: Bjork (Homogenic); David Bowie (Earthling); The Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole); Prodigy (The Fat Of the Land) | |
| 1997 Beck ("Odelay") | |
| Other Nominees: Tori Amos (Boys For Pele); Tracy Bonham (The Burdens of Being Upright); R.E.M. (New Adventures In Hi-Fi); Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) | |
| 1996 Nirvana ("MTV Unplugged In New York") | |
| Other Nominees: Bjork (Post); Foo Fighters (Foo Fighters); PJ Harvey (To Bring You My Love); Presidents of the United States of America (Presidents of the United States of America) | |
| 1995 Green Day ("Dookie") | |
| Other Nominees: Tori Amos (Under the Pink); Crash Test Dummies (God Shuffled His Feet); Sarah McLachlan (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy); Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral) | |
| 1994 U2 ("Zooropa") | |
| Other Nominees: Belly (Star); Nirvana (In Utero); R.E.M. (Automatic for the People); Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream) | |
| 1993 Tom Waits ("Bone Machine") | |
| Other Nominees: B-52's (Good Stuff); The Cure (Wish); Morrissey (Your Arsenal); XTC (Nonsuch) | |
| 1992 R.E.M. ("Out of Time") | |
| Other Nominees: Elvis Costello (Mighty Like A Rose); Jesus Jones (Doubt); Nirvana (Nevermind); Richard Thompson (Rumor & Sigh) | |
| 1991 Sinead O'Connor ("I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got") | |
| Other Nominees: Laurie Anderson (Strange Angels); Kate Bush (The Sensual World); The Replacements (All Shook Down); World Party (Goodbye Jumbo) | |
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