# MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video

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

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Video | Nominees | Ref. |
| 1989 | Paula Abdul | "Straight Up" | Bobby Brown — "Every Little Step" Michael Jackson — "Smooth Criminal" Jody Watley — "Real Love" | |

### 1990s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Video | Nominees |
| 1990 | MC Hammer | "U Can't Touch This" | Paula Abdul — "Opposites Attract" Janet Jackson — "Rhythm Nation" Madonna — "Vogue" |
| 1991 | C+C Music Factory | "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" | Bingoboys (featuring Princessa) — "How to Dance" Deee-Lite — "Groove Is in the Heart" EMF — "Unbelievable" |
| 1992 | Prince and the New Power Generation | "Cream" | En Vogue — "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" Madonna — "Holiday (Truth or Dare version)" Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch — "Good Vibrations" |
| 1993 | En Vogue | "Free Your Mind" | Janet Jackson — "That's the Way Love Goes" RuPaul — "Supermodel" Stereo MCs — "Connected" |
| 1994 | Salt-n-Pepa with En Vogue | "Whatta Man" | En Vogue — "Runaway Love" Janet Jackson — "If" Us3 — "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" Crystal Waters — "100% Pure Love" |
| 1995 | Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson | "Scream" | Paula Abdul — "My Love Is for Real" C+C Music Factory — "Do You Wanna Get Funky" Montell Jordan — "This Is How We Do It" Madonna — "Human Nature" Salt-n-Pepa — "None of Your Business" |
| 1996 | Coolio | "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" | Everything but the Girl — "Missing" La Bouche — "Be My Lover" George Michael — "Fastlove" |
| 1997 | Spice Girls | "Wannabe" | The Chemical Brothers — "Block Rockin' Beats" Freak Nasty — "Da' Dip" The Prodigy — "Breathe" |
| 1998 | The Prodigy | "Smack My Bitch Up" | Backstreet Boys — "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" Janet Jackson — "Together Again" Madonna — "Ray of Light" Will Smith — "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" |
| 1999 | Ricky Martin | "Livin' la Vida Loca" | Cher — "Believe" Fatboy Slim — "Praise You" Jordan Knight — "Give It to You" Jennifer Lopez — "If You Had My Love" |

### 2000s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Video | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2000 | Jennifer Lopez | "Waiting for Tonight" | Ricky Martin — "Shake Your Bon-Bon" NSYNC — "Bye Bye Bye" Sisqó — "Thong Song" Britney Spears — "(You Drive Me) Crazy" | |
| 2001 | NSYNC | "Pop" | Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and P!nk (featuring Missy Elliott) — "Lady Marmalade" Fatboy Slim — "Weapon of Choice" Janet Jackson — "All for You" Jennifer Lopez — "Love Don't Cost a Thing" | |
| 2002 | P!nk | "Get the Party Started" | Dirty Vegas — "Days Go By" Kylie Minogue — "Can't Get You Out of My Head" Shakira — "Whenever, Wherever" Britney Spears — "I'm a Slave 4 U" | |
| 2003 | Justin Timberlake | "Rock Your Body" | Christina Aguilera (featuring Redman) — "Dirrty" Jennifer Lopez — "I'm Glad" Mýa — "My Love Is Like...Wo" Sean Paul — "Get Busy" | |
| 2004 | Usher (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris) | "Yeah!" | Beyoncé — "Naughty Girl" The Black Eyed Peas — "Hey Mama" Missy Elliott — "I'm Really Hot" Britney Spears — "Toxic" | |
| 2005 | Missy Elliott (featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop) | "Lose Control" | Ciara (featuring Missy Elliott) — "1, 2 Step" Destiny's Child — "Lose My Breath" Jennifer Lopez — "Get Right" Shakira (featuring Alejandro Sanz) — "La Tortura" | |
| 2006 | The Pussycat Dolls (featuring Snoop Dogg) | "Buttons" | Nelly Furtado (featuring Timbaland) — "Promiscuous" Madonna — "Hung Up" Sean Paul — "Temperature" Shakira (featuring Wyclef Jean) — "Hips Don't Lie" | |
| 2007 | — | — | — | — |
| 2008 | The Pussycat Dolls | "When I Grow Up" | Chris Brown — "Forever" Danity Kane — "Damaged" Madonna (featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland) — "4 Minutes" Ne-Yo — "Closer" | |
| 2009 | — | — | — | — |

### 2010s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Video | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2010 | Lady Gaga | "Bad Romance" | Cascada — "Evacuate the Dancefloor" David Guetta (featuring Akon) — "Sexy Chick" Enrique Iglesias (featuring Pitbull) — "I Like It" Usher (featuring will.i.am) — "OMG" | |
| 2011 | — | — | — | — |
| 2012 | Calvin Harris | "Feel So Close" | Avicii — "Le7els" Duck Sauce — "Big Bad Wolf" Skrillex — "First of the Year (Equinox)" Martin Solveig — "The Night Out" | |
| 2013 | — | — | — | — |
| 2014 | Zedd (featuring Hayley Williams) | "Stay the Night" | Disclosure — "Grab Her!" DJ Snake and Lil Jon — "Turn Down for What" Martin Garrix — "Animals" Calvin Harris — "Summer" | |
| 2015 | — | — | — | — |
| 2016 | Calvin Harris and Disciples | "How Deep is Your Love" | 99 Souls (featuring Destiny's Child and Brandy) — "The Girl is Mine" Afrojack — "SummerThing!" The Chainsmokers (featuring Daya) — "Don't Let Me Down" Mike Posner — "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" | |
| 2017 | Zedd and Alessia Cara | "Stay" | Afrojack (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) — "Gone" Calvin Harris — "My Way" Kygo and Selena Gomez — "It Ain't Me" Major Lazer (featuring Justin Bieber and MØ) — "Cold Water" | |
| 2018 | Avicii (featuring Rita Ora) | "Lonely Together" | The Chainsmokers – "Everybody Hates Me" David Guetta and Sia – "Flames" Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa – "One Kiss" Marshmello (featuring Khalid) – "Silence" Zedd and Liam Payne – "Get Low" | |
| 2019 | The Chainsmokers (featuring Bebe Rexha) | "Call You Mine"' | Clean Bandit (featuring Demi Lovato) – "Solo" DJ Snake (featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B) – "Taki Taki" David Guetta, Bebe Rexha and J Balvin – "Say My Name" Marshmello and Bastille – "Happier" Silk City and Dua Lipa (featuring Diplo and Mark Ronson) – "Electricity" | |