MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video

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The MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B was first awarded in 1993 under the name Best R&B Video, and it was given every year until 2006. The following year MTV revamped the VMAs and eliminated all the genre categories. However, in 2008, when MTV returned the Video Music Awards to their previous format, Best R&B Video did not return despite four other genre awards doing so. It was only in 2019 that the R&B award returned to the VMAs, now under the shorter name of Best R&B.

Awarded forMusic songs
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First award1993
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MTV Video Music Award
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Mariah Carey is the most recent recipient for Type Dangerous
Awarded forMusic songs
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First award1993
Currently held byMariah Carey – "Type Dangerous" (2025)
Most awardsEn Vogue, Destiny's Child, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, the Weeknd, and SZA (2)
Most nominationsAlicia Keys (8)
WebsiteVMA website
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En Vogue, Destiny's Child, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, the Weeknd, and SZA are tied as this award's biggest winners, each having won it twice. Keys is also the category's biggest nominee, receiving her eighth nomination in 2023. In 2025, Mariah Carey won, winning her first ever competitive Video Music Award and winning the same night she received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

Recipients

Inaugural and two-time winner En Vogue.
Puff Daddy was the first solo act winner of the category.
Lauryn Hill was the first female solo act to win the category.
Alicia Keys is the most nominated act in the category with nine. She is also two-time consecutive winner with "If I Ain't Got You" and "Karma".
Beyoncé won the award two-times as a solo artist. She also won the award as a member of Destiny's Child for two consecutive times.
The Weeknd is the most awarded male singer with two.

1990s

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Year[a] Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
1993 En Vogue "Free Your Mind" [1]
1994 Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue "Whatta Man" [2]
1995 TLC "Waterfalls" [3]
1996 The Fugees "Killing Me Softly" [4]
1997 Puff Daddy (featuring Faith Evans and 112) "I'll Be Missing You" [5]
1998 Wyclef Jean (featuring Refugee Allstars) "Gone Till November" [6]
1999 Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop (That Thing)" [7]
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2000s

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Year[b] Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2000 Destiny's Child "Say My Name" [8]
2001 Destiny's Child "Survivor" [9]
2002 Mary J. Blige "No More Drama" [10]
2003 Beyoncé (featuring Jay-Z) "Crazy in Love" [11]
2004 Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You" [12]
2005 Alicia Keys "Karma" [13]
2006 Beyoncé (featuring Slim Thug and Bun B) "Check on It" [14]
2007 – 2009 N/a
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2010s

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Year[c] Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2011 – 2018 N/a
2019 Normani (featuring 6LACK) "Waves" [15]
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2020s

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Year[d] Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2020 The Weeknd "Blinding Lights"
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2021 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak and Silk Sonic "Leave the Door Open" [17]
2022 The Weeknd "Out of Time"
[18]
2023 SZA "Shirt"
[19]
2024 SZA "Snooze" [20]
2025 Mariah Carey "Type Dangerous" [21]
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Statistics

Artists with multiple wins

2 wins

Artists with multiple nominations

See also

Notes

  1. [a]
    Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  2. [b]
    Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  3. [c]
    Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
  4. [d]
    Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.

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