The Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Music Video () is an award presented annually by CJ E&M ( Mnet) at the

Mnet Asian Music Awards The MAMA Awards (formerly Mnet Asian Music Awards) is a major music awards ceremony presented annually by entertainment company CJ E&M. First held in South Korea, the majority of prizes has been won by K-pop artists, although there are other As ...

. The event was launched in

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as the Mnet Video Music Awards and was primarily a music video-centered awards ceremony, modeled after the

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. From its inaugural ceremony up until the

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awards, the category was officially titled Music Video of the Year and consisted of one of the two ''daesang'' (or most prestigious) prizes, alongside the Most Popular Music Video category. In 2006, the event underwent an overhaul; the ''daesang'' status of the category was removed, and it was retitled as "Best Music Video". Meanwhile, the Most Popular Music Video category was discontinued. In 1999, the inaugural Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Music Video was presented to Lee Seung-hwan for the video "A Request". In 2005, the video for "Isolated Ones! Left Foot Forward!" by Drunken Tiger was the final recipient of the Music Video of the Year ''daesang'' before its rebranding the following year. Since then, four artists have received the accolade more than once; among them, BTS holds the distinction for the most wins in the category, winning for five consecutive years between 2017 and 2021. Four artists have won the award twice:

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, Psy,

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, and Blackpink. BTS, in addition, has received the most nominations in the category with six.

Winners and nominees

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Music Video of the Year (''daesang'')

From

–

, the category was titled "Music Video of the Year" and was one of the ceremony's two ''daesang'' prizes. The event went through several name changes during this time period: "Mnet Video Music Awards" (1999), "Mnet Music Video Festival" (2000–

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), and "Mnet KM Music Video Festival" (

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–2005). No list of nominees was made available for the former ''daesang'' during the course of its existence.

Best Music Video

Starting in

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, the former category's ''daesang'' status was dropped and it was instead retitled "Best Music Video". From 2006 to

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, the event was renamed the "Mnet KM Music Festival" (MKMF). From

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onwards, it has been officially called the "Mnet Asian Music Awards" (MAMA).

Artists with multiple wins

5 wins * BTS 2 wins *

* Psy *

* Blackpink

Artists with multiple nominations

6 nominations * BTS 4 nominations *

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3 nominations *

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* Psy * Wonder Girls * Blackpink 2 nominations *

* Epik High * Infinite * Leessang * Seo Taiji * Shinee * Taeyang * Twice * UV * Wanna One

Notes

References

External links

Mnet Asian Music Awards
official website {{Mnet Asian Music Awards MAMA Awards