The MTV Europe Music Award for MTV Select was created in 1996. The five nominations in this category was selected by the viewers during a special MTV Select Weekend, a nine-hour marathon. Europe's favourite 100 videos were compiled and then were reduced, by viewer votes, to the five nominations for The MTV Europe Music Awards Select category. In 1998 the category was divided into four; MTV Select UK and Ireland, MTV Select Northern, MTV Select Central and MTV Select Southern.
1990s Year Winner Nominees 1996 Backstreet Boys — "Get Down (You're the One for Me)" Boyzone — "Words" Jamiroquai — "Virtual Insanity" Oasis — "Don't Look Back in Anger" Spice Girls — "Wannabe" 1997 Backstreet Boys — "As Long as You Love Me" Hanson — "Where's the Love" Puff Daddy (featuring Faith Evans and 112) — "I'll Be Missing You" Spice Girls — "Spice Up Your Life"1998 MTV Select — UK and Ireland: Five Another Level B*Witched Billie StepsMTV Select — Northern: Eagle Eye Cherry MTV Select — Central: Thomas D and Franka Potente MTV Select — Southern: Bluvertigo 99 Posse Articolo 31 Ligabue Vasco Rossi
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