List of U2's Awards
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This is a chronological list of the major music awards received by the Irish rock band U2.[1][2][3][4][5]
Awards included in this list:
Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction, Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, Meteor Ireland Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, People's Choice Awards, Juno Awards, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, NME Awards, Q Awards.
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[edit] 1983
- BRIT Awards
- Best Live Act
[edit] 1987
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Viewer's Choice (for the video for 'With or Without You')
[edit] 1988
- Grammy Awards
- Album Of The Year (for 'The Joshua Tree')
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'The Joshua Tree')
- BRIT Awards
- Best International Group
[edit] 1989
- Grammy Awards
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'Desire')
- Best Performance Music Video (for the video for 'Where The Streets Have No Name')
- BRIT Awards
- Best International Group
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Best Video from a Film (for the video for 'When Love Comes to Town')
- Juno Awards
- International Entertainer of the Year
[edit] 1990
- BRIT Awards
- Best International Group
- Q Awards
- Best Act in the World Today
[edit] 1991
- Q Awards
- Best Act in the World Today
[edit] 1992
- Billboard Music Awards
- No. 1 Album Tracks Artist (for 'Mysterious Ways')
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Best Special Effects in a Video (for the video for 'Even Better Than the Real Thing')
- Best Group Video of the Year (for the video for 'Even Better Than the Real Thing')
- Q Awards
- Best Act in the World Today
[edit] 1993
- Grammy Awards
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'Achtung Baby')
- Juno Awards
- International Entertainer of the Year
- Q Awards
- Best Act in the World Today
[edit] 1994
- Grammy Awards
- Best Alternative Music Album (for 'Zooropa')
- Q Awards
- Merit Award
[edit] 1995
- Grammy Awards
- Best Music Video, Long Form (for 'Zoo TV - Live From Sydney')
[edit] 1996
- Q Awards
- Q Inspiration Award
[edit] 1998
- BRIT Awards
- Best International Group
[edit] 2001
- Grammy Awards
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'Beautiful Day')
- Song Of The Year (for 'Beautiful Day')
- Record Of The Year (for 'Beautiful Day')
- BRIT Awards
- Best International Group
- Outstanding Contribution To Music
- American Music Awards
- Internet Fans Award
- Meteor Ireland Music Awards
- Best Irish Band
- Best Irish Rock Group Album (for 'All That You Can't Leave Behind')
- Best Irish Songwriter (awarded to Bono & The Edge)
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Vanguard Award
- NME Awards
- Best Rock Act
- Godlike Genius
[edit] 2002
- Grammy Awards
- Best Rock Album (for 'All That You Can't Leave Behind')
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'Elevation')
- Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of')
- Record Of The Year (for 'Walk On')
- Meteor Ireland Music Awards
- Best Irish Rock Band
- Best Irish Rock Album (for 'All That You Can't Leave Behind')
- Best Irish Rock Single (for 'Walk On')
- Best Irish Video (for the video for 'Elevation')
- Best Irish Live Performance
- Best Irish Songwriter (awarded to Bono)
- Juno Awards
- Jack Richardson Best Producer Award (awarded to Daniel Lanois for 'Beautiful Day' / 'Elevation')
- NME Awards
- Best Live Act
- Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
- Best Song (for 'The Hands That Built America')
[edit] 2003
- Golden Globe Awards
- Best Original Song - Motion Picture (for 'The Hands That Built America')
- Meteor Ireland Music Awards
- Best Group
- Humanitarian Award (awarded to Bono)
[edit] 2004
- People's Choice Awards
- Favorite Group
- Q Awards
- Q Icon
[edit] 2005
- Grammy Awards
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Inductees
- Q Awards
- Best Live Act
[edit] 2006
- Grammy Awards
- Album Of The Year (for 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb')
- Song Of The Year (for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own')
- Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own')
- Best Rock Song (for 'City Of Blinding Lights')
- Best Rock Album (for 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb')
- Meteor Ireland Music Awards
- Best Irish Band
- Best Irish Album (for 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb')
- Best Live Performance (for their performance at Croke Park)
- Q Awards
- The Q Innovation In Sound Award (awarded to The Edge)
- The Q Award of Awards
[edit] Record Grammy wins
To date, U2 are tied with Stevie Wonder in having won the most Grammy Awards of any artist of contemporary music with a total of 22 awards. They have won Best Rock Duo or Group seven times, Album of the Year twice, Record of the Year twice, Song of the Year twice and Best Rock Album twice.
[edit] References
- ^ http://theenvelope.latimes.com
- ^ http://brits.co.uk/search/?q=u2
- ^ http://www.everyhit.com/awardq.html
- ^ http://meteormusicawards.meteor.ie/html/previous-winners.asp
- ^ http://www.nme.com/awards/history
