The MTV Video Music Award for Best Group is given to recording artists at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). The award was introduced as the MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video 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 to the MTV Video Music Award for Group of the Year, though it was changed back to Best Group in 2024. The nominees were usually announced in late August or early September after the main nominees were announced.
BTS is the most-awarded artist in this category, having won the award five times, and is the only nominee to win the award in consecutive years, from 2019 to 2022. U2 and Blackpink are the most-nominated acts, with seven of U2's 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 seven nominations from 2019 to 2026, and was the second girl group after TLC to win the award in 2023.
Recipients
+Key Marks winners of the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year Marks nominees of the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year
1980s + Year Winner(s) Nominees ZZ Top – "Legs" USA for Africa – "We Are the World" Dire Straits – "Money for Nothing" Talking Heads – "Wild Wild Life" INXS – "Need You Tonight" / "Mediate" Living Colour – "Cult of Personality"
1990s + Year Winner(s) Nominees The B-52's – "Love Shack" R.E.M. – "Losing My Religion" U2 – "Even Better Than the Real Thing" Pearl Jam – "Jeremy" Aerosmith – "Cryin'" TLC – "Waterfalls" Foo Fighters – "Big Me" No Doubt – "Don't Speak" Backstreet Boys – "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" TLC – "No Scrubs"
2000s + Year Winner(s) Nominees Blink-182 – "All the Small Things" *NSYNC – "Pop" No Doubt – "Hey Baby" Coldplay – "The Scientist" No Doubt – "It's My Life" Green Day – "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" The All-American Rejects – "Move Along" Fall Out Boy – colspan="4"
2010s + Year Winner(s) Nominees – colspan="3" BTS
2020s + Year Winner(s) Nominees BTS BTS BTS Blackpink Seventeen Blackpink BTS
Statistics Artists with multiple wins 5 wins BTS
3 wins No Doubt
2 wins Blackpink TLC
Artists with multiple nominations
7 nominations U2 Blackpink
5 nominations Red Hot Chili Peppers *NSYNC BTS Twenty One Pilots
4 nominations Foo Fighters Backstreet Boys Jonas Brothers
3 nominations Eurythmics Aerosmith R.E.M. Green Day No Doubt Dave Matthews Band Destiny's Child Maroon 5 CNCO Coldplay Imagine Dragons Seventeen
2 nominations ZZ Top Huey Lewis and the News Van Halen INXS The Rolling Stones Talking Heads En Vogue TLC Blink-182 Linkin Park Good Charlotte Fall Out Boy 5 Seconds of Summer Silk Sonic Måneskin NewJeans Tomorrow X Together Flo Fuerza Regida Katseye
See also MTV Europe Music Award for Best Group MTV Video Music Award Japan for Best Group Video
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