| Year | Song | Artist | Nominees | Ref. |
|---|
| 1992 | "Mysterious Ways"[1](Album Rock)
"One"(Modern Rock) | U2 | | |
| 1993 | "Plush"[2] | Stone Temple Pilots | | |
| 1994 | "Shine"[3] | Collective Soul | | |
| 1995 | "December"[4] | Collective Soul | | |
| 1996 | "Counting Blue Cars"[5] | Dishwalla | | |
| 1997 | "If You Could Only See"[6] | Tonic | | |
| 1998 | "Blue on Black"[7] | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | | |
| 1999 | "One"[8] | Creed | | |
| 2000 | "Kryptonite"[9] | 3 Doors Down | | |
| 2002 | "Blurry"[10] | Puddle of Mudd | | |
| 2003 | "Headstrong"[11] | Trapt | | |
| 2005 | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"[12] | Green Day | | |
| 2006 | "Animal I Have Become"[13] | Three Days Grace | | |
| 2011 | "Hey, Soul Sister"[14] | Train | | |
| 2012 | "Pumped Up Kicks"[15] | Foster the People | | |
| 2013 | "Somebody That I Used to Know"[16] | Gotye feat.Kimbra | | |
| 2014 | "Royals"[17] | Lorde | | |
| 2015 | "Take Me to Church"[18] | Hozier | | |
| 2016 | "Shut Up and Dance" | Walk the Moon | | |
| 2017 | "Heathens" | Twenty One Pilots | | |
| 2018 | "Believer" | Imagine Dragons | | [19] |
| 2019 | "High Hopes" | Panic! at the Disco | | |
| 2020 | "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" | Panic! at the Disco | | |
| 2021 | "Bang!"[20] | AJR | | [21] |
| 2022 | "Beggin'" | Måneskin | | [22] |
| 2023 | "Something in the Orange" | Zach Bryan | | [23] |
| 2024 | "I Remember Everything" | Zach Bryan featuringKacey Musgraves | | [24] |
