MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video

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The MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video 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, though, the award for Best Dancing was again eliminated from the VMAs. The Pussycat Dolls, who are the only artists to have won this award under its two names, are also the category's biggest winners, 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.

Year Winner Other nominees
1989 Paula Abdul — "Straight Up"
1990 MC Hammer — "U Can't Touch This"
1991 C+C Music Factory — "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
1992 Prince and the New Power Generation — "Cream"
1993 En Vogue — "Free Your Mind"
1994 Salt-N-Pepa (featuring En Vogue) — "Whatta Man"
1995 Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson — "Scream"
1996 Coolio — "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)"
1997 Spice Girls — "Wannabe"
1998 The Prodigy — "Smack My Bitch Up"
1999 Ricky Martin — "Livin' la Vida Loca"
2000 Jennifer Lopez — "Waiting for Tonight"
2001 'N Sync — "Pop"
2002 Pink — "Get the Party Started"
2003 Justin Timberlake — "Rock Your Body"
2004 Usher (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris) — "Yeah!"
2005 Missy Elliott (featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop) — "Lose Control"
2006 Pussycat Dolls (featuring Snoop Dogg) — "Buttons"
2007 No award given
2008 Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"