MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video

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.

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.

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.