MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration was first introduced to the MTV Video Music Awards in 2007 under the name Most Earthshattering Collaboration, as the VMAs were revamped and a few new categories were added to the show.

When MTV brought the VMAs back to their old format in 2008, this category did not return.

Beyoncé won for "Beautiful Liar" with Shakira (2007), "Telephone" with Lady Gaga (2010) and "Drunk in Love" with Jay-Z (2014).

Taylor Swift won for "Bad Blood" with Kendrick Lamar (2015), "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" with Zayn (2017) and "Fortnight" (2024) with Post Malone.

Lady Gaga and Shakira have each won in this category 2 times - Lady Gaga for "Telephone" with Beyoncé (2010) and "Rain on Me" with Ariana Grande (2020), and Shakira for "Beautiful Liar" with Beyoncé (2007) and "TQG" with Karol G (2023).

Inaugural winner Beyoncé has won the award three times.
Inaugural winner Shakira . She also won the award in 2023 with the first all-Latin American female artist collaboration with Karol G .
Pink won her first and only nomination in the category in 2013.
Rihanna ties Ariana Grande as the most nominated artists of the category with six.
Drake is the most nominated male artist with five.
Lil Nas X was the first to be recognised with an all-male collaboration with Jack Harlow in 2022.