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. Three-time winners are Beck, Radiohead, The White Stripes, and St. Vincent.
| 2025 (67th) |
St. Vincent All Born Screaming Other Nominees: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Wild God); Clairo (Charm); Kim Gordon (The Collective); Brittany Howard (What Now) |
| 2024 (66th) |
Boygenius The Record Other Nominees: Arctic Monkeys (The Car); Lana Del Rey (Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd); Gorillaz (Cracker Island); PJ Harvey (I Inside The Old Year Dying) |
| 2023 (65th) |
Wet Leg Wet Leg Other Nominees: Arcade Fire (We); Big Thief (Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You); Bjork (Fossora); Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Cool It Down) |
| 2022 (64th) |
St. Vincent Daddy's Home Other Nominees: Fleet Foxes (Shore); Halsey (If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power); Japanese Breakfast (Jubilee); Arlo Parks (Collapsed in Sunbeams) |
| 2021 (63rd) |
Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters Other Nominees: Beck (Hyperspace); Phoebe Bridgers (Punisher); Brittany Howard (Jaime); Tame Impala (The Slow Rush) |
| 2020 (62nd) |
Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride Other Nominees: Big Thief (U.F.O.F.); James Blake (Assume Form); Bon Iver (I, I); Thom Yorke (Anima) |
| 2019 (61st) |
Beck Colors Other Nominees: Arctic Monkeys (Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino); Bjork (Utopia); David Byrne (American Utopia); St. Vincent (Masseduction) |
| 2018 (60th) |
The National Sleep Well Beast Other Nominees: Arcade Fire (Everything Now); Gorillaz (Humanz); LCD Soundsystem (American Dream); Father John Misty (Pure Comedy) |
| 2017 | David Bowie | (Blackstar) |  |
| 2016 | Alabama Shakes | (Sound & Color) |  |
| 2015 | St. Vincent |  |
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| 2014 | Vampire Weekend | (Modern Vampires Of The City) |  |
| 2013 | Gotye | (Making Mirrors) |  |
| 2012 | Bon Iver |  |
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| 2011 | The Black Keys | (Brothers) |  |
| 2010 | Phoenix | (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix) |  |
| 2009 | Radiohead | (In Rainbows) |  |
| 2008 | The White Stripes | (Icky Thump) |  |
| 2007 | Gnarls Barkley | (St. Elsewhere) |  |
| 2006 | The White Stripes | (Get Behind Me Satan) |  |
| 2005 | Wilco | (A Ghost Is Born) |  |
| 2004 | The White Stripes | (Elephant) |  |
| 2003 | Coldplay | (A Rush Of Blood To The Head) |  |
| 2002 | Coldplay | (Parachutes) |  |
| 2001 | Radiohead | Kid A | |
| 2000 | Beck | Mutations | |
| 1999 | Beastie Boys | Hello Nasty | |
| 1998 | Radiohead | OK Computer | |
| 1997 | Beck | Odelay | |
| 1996 | Nirvana | MTV Unplugged In New York | |
| 1995 | Green Day | Dookie | |
| 1994 | U2 | Zooropa | |
| 1993 | Tom Waits | Bone Machine | |
| 1992 | R.E.M. | Out Of Time | |
| 1991 | Sinead O'Connor | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got |