 At the 50th Grammy Awards , Echoes , Silence , Patience & Grace won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album , and " The Pretender " was chosen for Best Hard Rock Performance . The album was also nominated for Album of the Year , while " The Pretender " was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song . The album also won Best International Album at the 2008 Brit Awards . Q ranked it the 12th best album of 2007 , while Rolling Stone put the album at the 45th spot in a similar list . 
