List of awards and nominations received by U2

List of U2 awards

U2 performing at Madison Square Garden in November 2005.
Award	Won
BRIT Awards	7
MTV Video Music Awards	6
Grammy Awards	22
iHeartRadio Music Awards	1
Q Awards	11
Pollstar Awards	13
Juno Awards	3
Billboard Music Awards	9
American Music Awards	1
Meteor Ireland Music Awards	15
NME Awards	3
Las Vegas Film Critics Society awards	1
Golden Globe Awards	2
People's Choice Awards	2
World Music Awards	2
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Inductee
Total
Awards won	95
Footnotes

This is a comprehensive list of major music awards received by U2, an Irish rock band that formed in 1976, and whose members are Adam Clayton, Bono, The Edge, and Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 have been one of the most popular acts in the world since the mid-1980s. The band has sold more than 145 million albums worldwide^[1][2] and has won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other rock band.^[3]

U2 formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency. By the mid-1980s, however, the band had become a top international act, noted for its anthemic sound, Bono's impassioned vocals, and The Edge's textural guitar playing. Their success as a live act was greater than their success as a record-selling act until their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree, which brought them mega-stardom.^[4]

Academy Awards

American Music Awards

The American Music Awards are awarded annually. U2 has won one AMA.

Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Music Awards are sponsored by Billboard magazine and is held annually in December. The awards are based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan and radio information by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. U2 has two awards from three nominations.^[8]

BRIT Awards

The BRIT Awards are awarded annually by the British Phonographic Industry. U2 have won 7 BRIT awards.

Craig Awards

Craig Awards is an award ceremony established in 2010. U2 have won one award.

Grammy Awards

They won 22 awards. The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States. 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 from 47 nominations. They have won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group seven times, while winning Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rock Album all twice.^[11][12]

Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globes are awarded annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. U2 was nominated five times for Best Original Song: Their song "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" from the Wim Wenders film Faraway, So Close! was nominated in 1994, but lost against Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia". For "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from Batman Forever, they were nominated again in 1996, but again no win (losing to: "Colors of the Wind" by Vanessa Williams). Finally, in 2003, they received the award for "The Hands That Built America", which appeared in Gangs of New York. In 2010 their song "Winter" for the film Brothers was also nominated but lost against the song "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham for Crazy Heart.^[13] The Edge of U2 described how the band plans to celebrate the nomination. "I think we might have a pint of Guinness in honor of (director) Jim (Sheridan) and his great piece of work.^[14] In 2014, "Ordinary Love" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

iHeartRadio Music Awards

The iHeartRadio Music Awards are sponsored by iHeartMedia.

Meteor Music Awards

The Meteor Music Awards have been awarded annually by Meteor since 2001. U2 have been nominated many times and have won 15 Meteor Awards. Below is a list of all The Meteor Awards U2 have won.

MTV

Q Awards

The Q Awards are awarded annually by Q magazine. U2 have won 10 Q Awards. Below are all the Q Awards U2 have won.

Peoples Choice Awards

Pollstar Concert Industry Awards

Premios 40 Principales

Other awards

In 1989 and 1993, U2 won Juno Awards for International Entertainer of the Year, and subsequently, producer Daniel Lanois won the Jack Richardson Best Producer Award for the production of "Beautiful Day" and "Elevation".^[25] In 1992, U2 won No. 1 Album Tracks Artist at the Billboard Music Awards for "Mysterious Ways".^[26] In 2001, they received both the NME Award for "Godlike Genius" and "Best Rock Act".^[27] The following year, they received the award for "Best Live Act".^[28] In 2003 they received both the Golden Globe Award^[29] and Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award^[30] for Best Song for "The Hands That Built America", which appeared in Gangs of New York. The following year they won Favorite Group at the People's Choice Awards.^[31] In 2005 the band was inducted into the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.^[32]

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