MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video

for Best Female Video The MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video is one of the original general awards that has been handed out every year since the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

In 2007, however, the award was briefly renamed Female Artist of the Year, and it awarded the artist's whole body of work for that year rather than a specific video. In 2008, though, the award returned to its original name and was once again awarded for a specific video.

The category would become defunct beginning with the 2017 ceremony after the gender specific categories would be merged into the Artist of the Year category.

Madonna, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are the biggest winners with three wins each, while the former also holds the record for most nominations with 12. Meanwhile, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson and Lady Gaga are the only artists to win the award for two consecutive years.

Recipients

	Marks nominees of the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year

1980s

Year	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Ref.
Cyndi Lauper	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"	{{smalldiv
Tina Turner	"What's Love Got to Do with It"	{{smalldiv
Whitney Houston	"How Will I Know"	{{smalldiv
Madonna	"Papa Don't Preach"	{{smalldiv
Suzanne Vega	"Luka"	{{smalldiv
Paula Abdul	"Straight Up"	{{smalldiv

1990s

Year	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Ref.
Sinéad O'Connor	"Nothing Compares 2 U"	{{smalldiv
Janet Jackson	"Love Will Never Do (Without You)"	{{smalldiv
Annie Lennox	"Why"	{{smalldiv
k.d. lang	"Constant Craving"	{{smalldiv
Janet Jackson	"If"	{{smalldiv
Madonna	"Take a Bow"	{{smalldiv
Alanis Morissette	"Ironic"	{{smalldiv
Jewel	"You Were Meant for Me"	{{smalldiv
Madonna	"Ray of Light"	{{smalldiv
Lauryn Hill	"Doo Wop (That Thing)"	{{smalldiv

2000s

Year	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Ref.
Aaliyah	"Try Again"	{{smalldiv
Eve (feat. Gwen Stefani)	"Let Me Blow Ya Mind"	{{smalldiv
P!nk	"Get the Party Started"	{{smalldiv
Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z)	"Crazy in Love"	{{smalldiv
Beyoncé	"Naughty Girl"	{{smalldiv
Kelly Clarkson	"Since U Been Gone"	{{smalldiv
Kelly Clarkson	"Because of You"	{{smalldiv
Fergie		{{smalldiv
Britney Spears	"Piece of Me"	{{smalldiv
Taylor Swift	"You Belong with Me"	{{smalldiv

2010s

Year	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Ref.
Lady Gaga	"Bad Romance"	{{smalldiv
Lady Gaga	"Born This Way"	{{smalldiv
Nicki Minaj	"Starships"	{{smalldiv
Taylor Swift	"I Knew You Were Trouble"	{{smalldiv
Katy Perry (feat. Juicy J)	"Dark Horse"	{{smalldiv
Taylor Swift	"Blank Space"	{{smalldiv
Beyoncé	"Hold Up"	{{smalldiv