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.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance | |
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Awarded for | quality dance/electronic music videos |
Country | United States |
Presented by | MTV |
First awarded | 1989 |
Last awarded | 2019 |
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 |
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
edit1980s
editYear[a] | Winner(s) | Video | Nominees | Ref. |
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1989 | Paula Abdul | "Straight Up" | [1] |
1990s
editYear[b] | Winner(s) | Video | Nominees | Ref. |
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1990 | MC Hammer | "U Can't Touch This" |
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[2] |
1991 | C+C Music Factory | "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" |
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[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" |
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[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" |
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[11] |
2000s
edit2010s
editNotes
edit- ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
- ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
- ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
- ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
References
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- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1991". MTV. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1992". MTV. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1993". MTV. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
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- ^ "MTV Video Music Awards 1995". MTV. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
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