Annual music video award
TheMTV 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 theMTV 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 forBest Dancing was again eliminated from the VMAs, but it was revived again in 2010 asBest 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 ofBest Electronic Dance Music Video , celebrating the rise in popularity of EDM throughout the year. It was again eliminated from the2013 awards . On July 17, 2014, MTV brought the category back, this time renaming it theMTV Clubland Award for the2014 Awards . The pattern of awarding the Moonman every other year continued in2016 where the award was renamedBest Electronic Video . Finally, in2017 this award's name was changed toBest Dance , which it has kept until the present. It was again eliminated from the2020 awards and has not been awarded since.
En Vogue ,The Pussycat Dolls ,Calvin Harris andZedd are the category's biggest winners, with each having won it twice.Madonna andJanet Jackson , on the other hand, are the two most nominated artists, each having been nominated six times for this category; followed byJennifer Lopez andCalvin Harris , who have been nominated five times.
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