MTV Video Music Awards / Best Overall Performance in a Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance was given from 1984 to 1987.

Overview

Award	year	Award winners	for the video	Nominations
1.	1984	Michael Jackson	thriller	David Bowie - China Girl Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun The Police - Every Breath You Take Van Halen - Jump
2.	1985	Philip Bailey and Phil Collins	Easy lover	Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You? David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark USA for Africa - We Are the World
3.	1986	David Bowie and Mick Jagger	Dancing in the street	Dire Straits - Money for Nothing Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
4th	1987	Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer	Janet Jackson - Nasty Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Run-DMC - Walk This Way U2 - With or Without You

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carla Haye: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . July 10, 1999, ISSN  0006-2510 , p. 89 .