MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video

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MTV Video Music Award
for Best Dance
Awarded forquality dance/electronic music videos
CountryUnited States
Presented by MTV
First awarded1989
Last awarded2019
Currently held by The Chainsmokers (featuring Bebe Rexha) – "Call You Mine"' (2019)
Most awards En Vogue, The Pussycat Dolls, Calvin Harris & Zedd (2)
Most nominations Madonna & Janet Jackson (6)
Website VMA website

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance was first awarded in 1989, and it was one of the original four genre categories that were added to the MTV Video Music Awards that year.

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With a revamp of the awards in 2007, the category was cut out along with several others, yet it returned for the 2008 awards, where it was given a new name: Best Dancing in a Video. In 2009 the award for Best Dancing was again eliminated from the VMAs, but it was revived again in 2010 as Best Dance Music Video. The following year, though, the award was once again absent from the category list. Once again, the award was revived in 2012, this time under the name of Best Electronic Dance Music Video, celebrating the rise in popularity of EDM throughout the year. It was again eliminated from the 2013 awards. On July 17, 2014, MTV brought the category back, this time renaming it the MTV Clubland Award for the 2014 Awards. The pattern of awarding the Moonman every other year continued in 2016 where the award was renamed Best Electronic Video. Finally, in 2017 this award's name was changed to Best Dance, which it has kept until the present. It was again eliminated from the 2020 awards and has not been awarded since.

En Vogue, The Pussycat Dolls, Calvin Harris and Zedd are the category's biggest winners, with each having won it twice. Madonna and Janet Jackson, on the other hand, are the two most nominated artists, each having been nominated six times for this category; followed by Jennifer Lopez and Calvin Harris, who have been nominated five times.

Recipients

1980s

Recipients
Year [a] Winner(s)VideoNomineesRef.
1989 Paula Abdul "Straight Up" [1]

1990s

Recipients
Year [b] Winner(s)VideoNomineesRef.
1990 MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This" [2]
1991 C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" [3]
1992 Prince and the New Power Generation "Cream" [4]
1993 En Vogue "Free Your Mind" [5]
1994 Salt-n-Pepa with En Vogue "Whatta Man" [6]
1995 Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson "Scream" [7]
1996 Coolio "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" [8]
1997 Spice Girls "Wannabe" [9]
1998 The Prodigy "Smack My Bitch Up" [10]
1999 Ricky Martin "Livin' la Vida Loca" [11]

2000s

Recipients
Year [c] Winner(s)VideoNomineesRef.
2000 Jennifer Lopez "Waiting for Tonight" [12]
2001 NSYNC "Pop" [13]
2002 P!nk "Get the Party Started" [14]
2003 Justin Timberlake "Rock Your Body" [15]
2004 Usher (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris)"Yeah!" [16]
2005 Missy Elliott (featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop)"Lose Control" [17]
2006 The Pussycat Dolls (featuring Snoop Dogg)"Buttons" [18]
2007 —
2008 The Pussycat Dolls "When I Grow Up" [19]
2009 —

2010s

Recipients
Year [d] Winner(s)VideoNomineesRef.
2010 Lady Gaga "Bad Romance"
 [20]
2011 —
2012 Calvin Harris "Feel So Close" [21]
2013 —
2014 Zedd (featuring Hayley Williams)"Stay the Night" [22]
2015 —
2016 Calvin Harris and Disciples "How Deep is Your Love" [23]
2017 Zedd and Alessia Cara "Stay"
 [24]
2018 Avicii (featuring Rita Ora)"Lonely Together" [25]
2019 The Chainsmokers (featuring Bebe Rexha)"Call You Mine"' [26]

Notes

    1. ↑ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
    2. ↑ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
    3. ↑ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
    4. ↑ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.

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