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Wikipedia / MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance is given at the annual MTV Video Music Award. The category 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.

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 before returning in 2026.

En Vogue, The Pussycat Dolls, Calvin Harris and Zedd are the category's biggest winners, with each having won it twice. Madonna is the most nominated artist, having been nominated seven times for this category; followed by Janet Jackson, who has been nominated six times.

Recipients

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1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Statistics

Artists with multiple wins

  1. 2 wins

  2. Calvin Harris

  3. En Vogue

  4. The Pussycat Dolls

  5. Zedd

Artists with multiple nominations

  1. 7 nominations

  2. Madonna

  3. 6 nominations

  4. Janet Jackson

  5. 5 nominations

  6. Calvin Harris

  7. Jennifer Lopez

  8. 4 nominations

  9. En Vogue

  10. Missy Elliott

  11. Bebe Rexha

  12. 3 nominations

  13. Britney Spears

  14. Paula Abdul

  15. David Guetta

  16. Shakira

  17. The Chainsmokers

  18. Zedd

  19. Lady Gaga

  20. 2 nominations

  21. Afrojack

  22. Avicii

  23. C+C Music Factory

  24. Christina Aguilera

  25. Ciara

  26. Destiny's Child

  27. DJ Snake

  28. Dua Lipa

  29. Fatboy Slim

  30. Justin Timberlake

  31. Lil Jon

  32. Marshmello

  33. Michael Jackson

  34. Mýa

  35. NSYNC

  36. Pink

  37. Ricky Martin

  38. Salt-n-Pepa

  39. Sean Paul

  40. Selena Gomez

  41. The Prodigy

  42. The Pussycat Dolls

  43. Timbaland

  44. Usher

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