MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video

Template:Short description Template:Infobox award 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.

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

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YearTemplate:Efn	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Template:Abbr
Template:Mtvvma	Paula Abdul	"Straight Up"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1989">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1990s

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YearTemplate:Efn	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Template:Abbr
Template:Mtvvma	MC Hammer	"U Can't Touch This"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1990">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	C+C Music Factory	"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1991">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Prince and the New Power Generation	"Cream"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1992">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	En Vogue	"Free Your Mind"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1993">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Salt-n-Pepa with En Vogue	"Whatta Man"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1994">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson	"Scream"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1995">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Coolio	"1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1996">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Spice Girls	"Wannabe"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1997">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	The Prodigy	"Smack My Bitch Up"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1998">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Ricky Martin	"Livin' la Vida Loca"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1999">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2000s

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YearTemplate:Efn	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Template:Abbr
Template:Mtvvma	Jennifer Lopez	"Waiting for Tonight"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2000">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	NSYNC	"Pop"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2001">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	P!nk	"Get the Party Started"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2002">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Justin Timberlake	"Rock Your Body"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2003">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Usher Template:Small	"Yeah!"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2004">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Missy Elliott Template:Small	"Lose Control"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2005">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	The Pussycat Dolls Template:Small	"Buttons"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2006">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Template:Mtvvma	The Pussycat Dolls	"When I Grow Up"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2008">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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2010s

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YearTemplate:Efn	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Template:Abbr
Template:Mtvvma	Lady Gaga	"Bad Romance"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Template:Mtvvma	Calvin Harris	"Feel So Close"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2012">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Template:Mtvvma	Zedd Template:Small	"Stay the Night"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2014">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Template:Mtvvma	Calvin Harris and Disciples	"How Deep is Your Love"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Zedd and Alessia Cara	"Stay"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2017">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Avicii Template:Small	"Lonely Together"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	The Chainsmokers Template:Small	"Call You Mine"'	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• MTV Europe Music Award for Best Electronic