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MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year

Annual music video award

Annual music video award

FieldValue
nameMTV Video Music Award
for Video of the Year
awarded_forMusic videos
imageMTV_Logo_2010.svg
imagesize200
altLogo of MTV
captionLogo of MTV
presenterMTV
countryUnited States
year1984
holderAriana Grande – Brighter Days Ahead (2025)
most_winsTaylor Swift (5)
most_nominationsEminem (9)
website

for Video of the Year The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the most prestigious competitive award and the final award presented at the annual MTV Video Music Awards. The award was created by the U.S. network MTV to honor artists with the best music videos. At the first MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in , the Video of the Year honor was presented to The Cars for the video "You Might Think". Originally, all winners were determined by a special panel of music video directors, producers, and record company executives. Since the awards, winners of major categories are determined by viewers' votes through MTV's website, while the jury decides in the technical categories. Beginning in , Burger King sponsors the category through a partnership with Paramount, resulting in the award being presented as MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year Presented by Burger King.

Taylor Swift holds the record for the most wins, with a total of five for "Bad Blood" (), "You Need to Calm Down" (), All Too Well: The Short Film (), “Anti-Hero" () and "Fortnight" (). Eminem holds the record for the most nominations, with eight as lead artist. David Lee Roth (), U2 (), Lady Gaga () and Bruno Mars () are the only acts to have had two Video of the Year nominations in a single ceremony. Two acts have won both the Video of the Year and the honorary Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in the same night—Peter Gabriel in with "Sledgehammer" and Justin Timberlake in with "Mirrors". Swift is the first artist to win Video of the Year for a self-directed video, with All Too Well: The Short Film; she also ranks as the artist with the most Video of the Year trophies for self-directed videos, with a total of three. Kendrick Lamar, Swift, Lil Nas X, and Ariana Grande have further won the award for a video they co-directed: Lamar for "Humble" in , Swift for "You Need to Calm Down" in 2019, Lil Nas X for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" in , and Grande for Brighter Days Ahead in .

Recipients

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Statistics

Artists with multiple wins

; 5 wins

  • Taylor Swift

; 2 wins

  • Beyoncé
  • Eminem
  • Kendrick Lamar
  • Missy Elliott
  • Rihanna

Artists with multiple nominations

; 9 nominations

  • Eminem

; 7 nominations

  • Beyoncé
  • Bruno Mars
  • Taylor Swift

; 6 nominations

  • Drake

; 5 nominations

  • Ariana Grande
  • Justin Timberlake
  • Lady Gaga

; 4 nominations

  • Billie Eilish
  • Doja Cat
  • Jay-Z
  • Kanye West
  • Madonna
  • Rihanna
  • U2
  • Kendrick Lamar
  • The Weeknd

; 3 nominations

  • Aerosmith
  • Britney Spears
  • Ed Sheeran
  • Lil Nas X
  • Michael Jackson
  • Missy Elliott
  • Pharrell Williams
  • R.E.M.
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • SZA ; 2 nominations
  • Adele
  • Beastie Boys
  • Christina Aguilera
  • David Lee Roth
  • DJ Khaled
  • Don Henley
  • Future
  • Green Day
  • Gwen Stefani
  • Janet Jackson
  • Jonas Brothers
  • Justin Bieber
  • Katy Perry
  • Lil' Kim
  • Miley Cyrus
  • Nirvana
  • NSYNC
  • Olivia Rodrigo
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Steve Winwood
  • Will Smith
  • Young Thug

Notes

References

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