MTV Video Music Awards / Best R&B Video

The Best R&B Video Award was presented from 1993 to 2006 as part of the annual MTV Video Music Awards . In 2007, MTV withdrew from the genre awards, but returned to them a year later. However, this category was not revived until 2019.

Music videos that have been assigned to the contemporary R&B genre are nominated . Between 2007 and 2019 these videos were listed either under Best Hip-Hop Video or Best Pop Video .

Most of the wins, with two each, went to En Vogue , Destiny's Child , Beyoncé and Alicia Keys . Alicia Keys got the most nominations with five.

Overview

Award	year	Award winners	for the video	Nominations
1.	1993	En Vogue	Free your mind	Mary J. Blige - Real Love Boyz II Men - End of the Road Prince and The New Power Generation - 7
2.	1994	Salt-n-Pepa (feat. En Vogue )	Whatta Man	Brand New Heavies - Dream on Dreamer Toni Braxton - Breathe Again R. Kelly - Bump n 'Grind
3.	1995	TLC	Waterfalls	Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson - Scream Jade - 5-4-3-2 (Yo! Time Is Up) Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
4th	1996	The Fugees	Killing Me Softly	Toni Braxton - You're Makin 'Me High Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
5.	1997	Puff Daddy (feat. Faith Evans & 112 )	I'll be missing you	Babyface (feat. Stevie Wonder ) - How Come, How Long Erykah Badu - On & On Blackstreet (feat. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen ) - No Diggity Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
6th	1998	Wyclef Jean	Gone Till November	Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life Usher - You Make Me Wanna
7th	1999	Lauryn Hill	Doo Wop (That Thing)	Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody? Brandy - Have You Ever? Whitney Houston (feat. Faith Evans & Kelly Price ) - Heartbreak Hotel
8th.	2000	Destiny's Child	Say my name	Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) Brian McKnight - Back at One
9.	2001	Destiny's Child	Survivor	* 112 - Peaches & Cream Sunshine Anderson - Heard It All Before R. Kelly - I Wish Jill Scott - Gettin 'in the Way
10.	2002	Mary J. Blige	No more drama	Aaliyah - Rock the Boat Ashanti - Foolish Alicia Keys - A Woman's Worth Usher - U Got It Bad
11.	2003	Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z )	Crazy in Love	Aaliyah - Miss You Ashanti - Rock wit U (Awww Baby) R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix) Nelly (feat. Kelly Rowland ) - Dilemma
12.	2004	Alicia Keys	If I Ain't Got You	Beyoncé - Me, Myself and I Brandy (feat. Kanye West ) - Talk About Our Love R. Kelly - Step in the Name of Love (Remix) Usher - Burn
13.	2005	Alicia Keys	karma	Mariah Carey - We Belong Together Ciara (feat. Ludacris ) - Oh John Legend - Ordinary People Usher & Alicia Keys - My Boo
14th	2006	Beyoncé ( feat.Slim Thug and Bun B )	Check on It	Mary J. Blige - Be Without You Chris Brown - Yo (Excuse Me Miss) Mariah Carey - Shake It Off Jamie Foxx (feat. Ludacris ) - Unpredictable
15th	2019	Normani (feat. 6lack )	Waves	Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer HER ( feat.Bryson Tiller ) - Could've Been Alicia Keys - Raise a Man Ella Mai - Trip Anderson .Paak (feat. Smokey Robinson ) - Make It Better
16.	2020			Chloe x Halle - Do It HER (featuring YG ) - Slide Alicia Keys - underdog Khalid (featuring Summer Walker ) - Eleven Lizzo - Cuz I Love You The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antwande Folk: 10 Years Later, MTV Still Fails to Revive Best R&B Video at VMAs. ratedrnb.com, August 20, 2018, accessed July 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ariana Grande & Taylor Swift Lead 2019 MTV VMA Nominations: See Full List . In: Billboard.com , July 23, 2019. 
3. ↑ Best R&B Video. Rockonthenet.com, accessed July 17, 2019 .