# MTV Video Music Award for Best Group

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Group (also known as the MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video and MTV Video Music Award for Group of the Year) is given to recording artists at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). The award was introduced at the inaugural ceremony in 1984 by vocalist Ric Ocasek of the Cars. American rock band ZZ Top was the first act to receive the honor for its "Legs" music video. Tim Newman, the video's director, accepted the award on behalf of the band.
In 2007, a revamp of the ceremony saw the award renamed from Best Group Video to simply Best Group. In 2008, the VMAs returned to their original format, but the award was not included. It was brought back for the 2019 edition of the show, as one of three social-media voted categories, instead of being determined by industry personnel as in previous years. In 2021, it was renamed from Best Group to Group of the Year, though it was changed back to Best Group in 2024.
BTS is the most-awarded artist in this category, having won the award four times, and is the only nominee to win the award in consecutive years, from 2019 to 2022. U2 is the most-nominated act, with seven of its videos receiving nominations in six different years between 1985 and 2005. TLC was the first girl group to win the award, doing so twice with their videos for "Waterfalls" (1995) and "No Scrubs" (1999). Blackpink is the most-nominated girl group, having received five nominations from 2019 to 2023, and was the second girl group after TLC to win the award in 2023.

## Recipients
### 1980s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Nominees | Ref. |
| 1984 | ZZ Top – "Legs" | Huey Lewis and the News – "The Heart of Rock & Roll" The Police – "Every Breath You Take" Van Halen – "Jump" ZZ Top – "Sharp Dressed Man" | |
| 1985 | USA for Africa – "We Are the World" | The Cars – "Drive" Eurythmics – "Would I Lie to You?" Huey Lewis and the News – "If This Is It" U2 – "Pride (In the Name of Love)" | [13] [14] |
| 1986 | Dire Straits – "Money for Nothing" | a-ha – "Take On Me" INXS – "What You Need" The Rolling Stones – "Harlem Shuffle" Talking Heads – "And She Was" | [15] [16] |
| 1987 | Talking Heads – "Wild Wild Life" | The Bangles – "Walk Like an Egyptian" Crowded House – "Don't Dream It's Over" Eurythmics – "Missionary Man" U2 – "With or Without You" | [17] [18] |
| 1988 | INXS – "Need You Tonight" / "Mediate" | Aerosmith – "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" Eurythmics – "I Need a Man" U2 – "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" U2 – "Where the Streets Have No Name" | [19] [20] |
| 1989 | Living Colour – "Cult of Personality" | Fine Young Cannibals – "She Drives Me Crazy" Guns N' Roses – "Sweet Child o' Mine" Traveling Wilburys – "Handle with Care" | [21] [22] |

### 1990s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Nominees | Ref. |
| 1990 | The B-52's – "Love Shack" | Aerosmith – "Janie's Got a Gun" Midnight Oil – "Blue Sky Mine" Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Higher Ground" Tears for Fears – "Sowing the Seeds of Love" | [23] [24] |
| 1991 | R.E.M. – "Losing My Religion" | The Black Crowes – "She Talks to Angels" Divinyls – "I Touch Myself" Queensrÿche – "Silent Lucidity" | [25] [26] |
| 1992 | U2 – "Even Better Than the Real Thing" | En Vogue – "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Under the Bridge" Van Halen – "Right Now" | [27] [28] |
| 1993 | Pearl Jam – "Jeremy" | Depeche Mode – "I Feel You" En Vogue – "Free Your Mind" R.E.M. – "Man on the Moon" | [29] [30] |
| 1994 | Aerosmith – "Cryin'" | Beastie Boys – "Sabotage" Green Day – "Longview" R.E.M. – "Everybody Hurts" | [31] [32] |
| 1995 | TLC – "Waterfalls" | Green Day – "Basket Case" The Rolling Stones – "Love Is Strong" Stone Temple Pilots – "Interstate Love Song" | |
| 1996 | Foo Fighters – "Big Me" | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – "Tha Crossroads" The Fugees – "Killing Me Softly" Hootie & the Blowfish – "Only Wanna Be with You" | [34] [35] |
| 1997 | No Doubt – "Don't Speak" | Blur – "Song 2" Counting Crows – "A Long December" Dave Matthews Band – "Crash into Me" The Wallflowers – "One Headlight" | [36] [37] |
| 1998 | Backstreet Boys – "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Garbage – "Push It" Matchbox 20 – "3 A.M." Radiohead – "Karma Police" The Verve – "Bitter Sweet Symphony" | [38] [39] |
| 1999 | TLC – "No Scrubs" | Backstreet Boys – "I Want It That Way" Limp Bizkit – "Nookie" NSYNC – "Tearin' Up My Heart" Sugar Ray – "Every Morning" | [40] [41] |

### 2000s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2000 | Blink-182 – "All the Small Things" | Destiny's Child – "Say My Name" Foo Fighters – "Learn to Fly" NSYNC – "Bye Bye Bye" Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Californication" | [42] [43] |
| 2001 | NSYNC – "Pop" | Destiny's Child – "Survivor" Incubus – "Drive" Dave Matthews Band – "I Did It" U2 – "Elevation (Tomb Raider Mix)" | [44] [45] |
| 2002 | No Doubt (featuring Bounty Killer) – "Hey Baby" | Blink-182 – "First Date" Linkin Park – "In the End" Dave Matthews Band – "Everyday" NSYNC (featuring Nelly) – "Girlfriend (Remix)" P.O.D. – "Alive" | [46] [47] |
| 2003 | Coldplay – "The Scientist" | B2K (featuring P. Diddy) – "Bump, Bump, Bump" The Donnas – "Take It Off" Good Charlotte – "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army" | |
| 2004 | No Doubt – "It's My Life" | D12 – "My Band" Good Charlotte – "Hold On" Hoobastank – "The Reason" Maroon 5 – "This Love" | [49] [50] |
| 2005 | Green Day – "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | The Black Eyed Peas – "Don't Phunk with My Heart" Destiny's Child (featuring T.I. and Lil Wayne) – "Soldier" The Killers – "Mr. Brightside" U2 – "Vertigo" | [51] [52] |
| 2006 | The All-American Rejects – "Move Along" | Fall Out Boy – "Dance, Dance" Gnarls Barkley – "Crazy" Panic! at the Disco – "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Dani California" | |
| 2007 | Fall Out Boy | Gym Class Heroes Linkin Park Maroon 5 The White Stripes | [54] [55] |
| 2008 – 2009 | — | — | — |

### 2010s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Nominees | Ref. |
| 2010 – 2018 | — | — | — |
| 2019 | BTS | 5 Seconds of Summer Backstreet Boys Blackpink CNCO Jonas Brothers PrettyMuch Why Don't We | |

### 2020s

Recipients :
| Year | Winner(s) | Nominees |
| 2020 | BTS | 5 Seconds of Summer Blackpink Chloe x Halle CNCO Little Mix Monsta X Now United The 1975 Twenty One Pilots |
| 2021 | BTS | Blackpink CNCO Foo Fighters Jonas Brothers Maroon 5 Silk Sonic Twenty One Pilots |
| 2022 | BTS | Blackpink City Girls Foo Fighters Imagine Dragons Måneskin Red Hot Chili Peppers Silk Sonic |
| 2023 | Blackpink | Fifty Fifty Flo Jonas Brothers Måneskin NewJeans Seventeen Tomorrow X Together |
| 2024 | Seventeen | Coldplay Imagine Dragons NCT Dream NewJeans NSYNC Tomorrow X Together Twenty One Pilots |

## Statistics
### Artists with multiple wins
#### 4 wins

* BTS

#### 3 wins

* No Doubt

#### 2 wins

* TLC