MTV Video Music Award for Best Group

MTV Video Music Award
for Best Group
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
Formerly calledBest Group Video, Group of the Year
First awarded1984
Currently held bySeventeen
Most awardsBTS (4)
Most nominationsU2 (7)
WebsiteVMA website

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[1] 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.[2] Tim Newman, the video's director, accepted the award on behalf of the band.[3]

In 2007, a revamp of the ceremony saw the award renamed from Best Group Video to simply Best Group.[4][5] In 2008, the VMAs returned to their original format, but the award was not included.[6][7] 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.[8][9] In 2021, it was renamed from Best Group to Group of the Year, though it was changed back to Best Group in 2024.[10]

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.[11] 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

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ZZ Top was the first act to win the award at the inaugural show in 1984.
U2 has been nominated seven times, the most of any act, for seven different music videos over the course of ten years.
Fall Out Boy was the first artist to win the award under its new name, Best Group, in 2007.
BTS is the most-awarded act in the category, having won four times. They are also the only nominee to consecutively win the award, from 2019 to 2022.
TLC is the most-awarded girl group in the category, having won twice.
Blackpink is the most-nominated girl group with five nominations and won once in 2023.

1980s

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Recipients
Year[a] Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
1984 ZZ Top – "Legs" [12]
1985 USA for Africa – "We Are the World" [13]
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1986 Dire Straits – "Money for Nothing" [15]
[16]
1987 Talking Heads – "Wild Wild Life" [17]
[18]
1988 INXS – "Need You Tonight" / "Mediate" [19]
[20]
1989 Living Colour – "Cult of Personality" [21]
[22]

1990s

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Recipients
Year[b] Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
1990 The B-52's – "Love Shack" [23]
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1991 R.E.M. – "Losing My Religion" [25]
[26]
1992 U2 – "Even Better Than the Real Thing" [27]
[28]
1993 Pearl Jam – "Jeremy" [29]
[30]
1994 Aerosmith – "Cryin'" [31]
[32]
1995 TLC – "Waterfalls" [33]
1996 Foo Fighters – "Big Me" [34]
[35]
1997 No Doubt – "Don't Speak" [36]
[37]
1998 Backstreet Boys – "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" [38]
[39]
1999 TLC – "No Scrubs" [40]
[41]

2000s

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Recipients
Year[c] Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
2000 Blink-182 – "All the Small Things" [42]
[43]
2001 NSYNC – "Pop" [44]
[45]
2002 No Doubt (featuring Bounty Killer) – "Hey Baby" [46]
[47]
2003 Coldplay – "The Scientist" [48]
2004 No Doubt – "It's My Life" [49]
[50]
2005 Green Day – "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" [51]
[52]
2006 The All-American Rejects – "Move Along" [53]
2007 Fall Out Boy [54]
[55]
2008 – 2009 —

2010s

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Recipients
Year[d] Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
2010 – 2018 —
2019 BTS [56]

2020s

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Recipients
Year[e] Winner(s) Nominees Ref.
2020 BTS [57]
2021 BTS [58]
2022 BTS [59]
2023 Blackpink [60]
2024 Seventeen [61]

Statistics

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Artists with multiple wins

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4 wins
3 wins
2 wins

Artists with multiple nominations

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  2. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  3. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  4. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  5. ^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.

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