MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video

MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video
Awarded forMale music videos
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First awarded1984
Last awarded2016
Most awardsEminem (3)
Most nominationsEminem (9)
WebsiteVMA website

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video was one of four original general awards that have been handed out every year since the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. In 2007, though, the award was briefly renamed Male Artist of the Year, and it awarded the artist's whole body of work for that year rather than a specific video. However, the award returned to its original name the following year. It was replaced by the Artist of the Year category in 2017, combining Best Male and Best Female video categories.

With three victories, Eminem is the artist with most wins in this category, and also has the most nominations with nine. Meanwhile, Tom Petty, Beck, Will Smith, Justin Timberlake and Chris Brown, all have won this twice, with the first three being the only artists to win the award for two consecutive years.

Recipients

David Bowie performing.
Inaugural winner David Bowie pictured in 1987
Eminem performing.
Eminem is the artist with most wins (3) and nominations (9)
Justin Timberlake performing.
Justin Timberlake has won the award twice
Ed Sheeran playing a guitar.
The 2014 winner Ed Sheeran
Mark Ronson looking at the camera.
The 2015 winner Mark Ronson
The 2016 winner Calvin Harris
Year Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
1984 David Bowie — "China Girl"
1985 Bruce Springsteen — "I'm on Fire"
1986 Robert Palmer — "Addicted to Love"
1987 Peter Gabriel — "Sledgehammer"
1988 Prince — "U Got the Look"
1989 Elvis Costello — "Veronica"
1990 Don Henley — "The End of the Innocence"
1991 Chris Isaak — "Wicked Game (Concept)"
1992 Eric Clapton — "Tears in Heaven (Performance)"
1993 Lenny Kravitz — "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
1994 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
1995 Tom Petty — "You Don't Know How It Feels"
1996 Beck — "Where It's At"
1997 Beck — "Devils Haircut"
1998 Will Smith — "Just the Two of Us"
1999 Will Smith — "Miami"
2000 Eminem — "The Real Slim Shady"
2001 Moby (featuring Gwen Stefani) — "South Side"
2002 Eminem — "Without Me"
2003 Justin Timberlake — "Cry Me a River"
2004 Usher (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris) — "Yeah!"
2005 Kanye West — "Jesus Walks"
2006 James Blunt — "You're Beautiful"
2007 Justin Timberlake
2008 Chris Brown — "With You"
2009 T.I. (featuring Rihanna) — "Live Your Life"
2010 Eminem — "Not Afraid"
2011 Justin Bieber — "U Smile"
2012 Chris Brown — "Turn Up the Music"
2013 Bruno Mars — "Locked Out of Heaven"
2014 Ed Sheeran (featuring Pharrell Williams) — "Sing"
2015 Mark Ronson (featuring Bruno Mars) — "Uptown Funk"
2016 Calvin Harris (featuring Rihanna) — "This Is What You Came For"

Records/stats

Rank 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Artist Eminem Kanye West Usher Bruce Springsteen Beck
Justin Timberlake
T.I.
Total nominations 9 7 6 5 4

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