MTV Europe Music Award for Best Group

Category of MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Group is one of the original general awards that has been handed at the MTV Europe Music Awards. It was awarded every year from 1994 to 2009 and from 2018 to 2021. The award was revived once again in 2023, but ultimately it was one of the three categories for which no winner was announced, along with the awards for the Biggest Fans and Best Israeli Act.

The Spice Girls, the Backstreet Boys and Linkin Park have all won the award twice. The world-famous South Korean group BTS won the award four times in a row, winning in every year they were nominated.

U2 is the group that was nominated more times, having been nominated five times between 1995 and 2005.

## Winners and nominees

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

† indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video–winning artist.
‡ indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video–nominated artist that same year.

### 1990s

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Year  | Artist  | Ref

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1994
Take That | [1]
Aerosmith †
Beastie Boys ‡
Crowded House
Rage Against the Machine
1995
U2 | [2]
Blur
Bon Jovi
Green Day
R.E.M.
1996
Oasis | [3]
The Fugees ‡
Garbage
Pulp
The Smashing Pumpkins
1997
Spice Girls | [4]
Oasis
The Prodigy
Radiohead

1998
Spice Girls | [5]
All Saints
Backstreet Boys †
Beastie Boys
Garbage ‡
1999
Backstreet Boys ‡ | [6]
The Cardigans
Jamiroquai
The Offspring
TLC †

### 2000s

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Year  | Artist  | Ref

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2000
Backstreet Boys | [7]
Blink 182 †
Bon Jovi
Red Hot Chili Peppers ‡
Travis
2001
Limp Bizkit | [8]
Destiny's Child ‡
Gorillaz
R.E.M.
U2 ‡
2002
Linkin Park ‡ | [9]
Coldplay
No Doubt †
Red Hot Chili Peppers

2003
Coldplay † | [10]
Evanescence
Metallica
Radiohead
The White Stripes ‡
2004
Outkast | [11]
Beastie Boys
The Black Eyed Peas
D12 ‡
Maroon 5 ‡
2005
Gorillaz | [12]
The Black Eyed Peas ‡
Coldplay
Green Day †
U2 ‡
2006
Depeche Mode | [13]
The Black Eyed Peas
Keane
The Pussycat Dolls
Red Hot Chili Peppers ‡
2007
Linkin Park | [14]
Fall Out Boy †
Good Charlotte
My Chemical Romance
Tokio Hotel
2009
Tokio Hotel | [15]
The Black Eyed Peas
Green Day
Jonas Brothers
Kings of Leon

### 2010s

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Year  | Artist  | Ref

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2018
BTS | [16]
5 Seconds of Summer
Chloe x Halle
Maroon 5
Migos
PrettyMuch
2019
BTS † | [17]
Blackpink ‡
CNCO ‡
Little Mix
Monsta X
5 Seconds of Summer ‡
Jonas Brothers ‡
The 1975

### 2020s

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Year  | Artist  | Ref

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2020
BTS † | [18]
5 Seconds of Summer ‡
Blackpink ‡
Chloe x Halle ‡
CNCO ‡
Little Mix ‡
2021
BTS † | [19]
Imagine Dragons
Jonas Brothers ‡
Little Mix
Måneskin
Silk Sonic ‡
2022 | —
2023
Aespa | [20]
Flo ‡
Jonas Brothers ‡
Måneskin ‡
NewJeans
OneRepublic
Seventeen ‡
Tomorrow X Together ‡

## See also

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* MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video

## References

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2. ^ Atwood, Brett (October 28, 1995). November Awards Abound: Billboard Vid, MTV Europe. Billboard. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
3. ^ "YOGMAIL - the Unofficial George Michael Mailing List --Nov. 2/96--Issue #41".
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5. ^ "Brits, U.S. top MTV Euro noms". Variety. October 2, 1998. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
6. ^ "Britney, BSB Top Nominations For MTV Europe Awards; Spears, Mariah, Puffy, Manson To Perform". MTV News. October 5, 1999. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
7. ^ Tadeusiak, Aneta. "MTV Europe Music Awards 2000". ukmix.org. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
8. ^ "MTV Europe: Award nominations 2001". BBC News. September 25, 2001. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
9. ^ Mancini, Robert (September 30, 2002). "Eminem, Pink, Shakira Nab Most Noms For MTV Europe Music Awards". MTV News. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
10. ^ "MTV Europe Music Awards: The winners". BBC News. November 6, 2003. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
11. ^ "MTV Europe Awards 2004: The winners". BBC News. November 18, 2004. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
12. ^ "COLDPLAY, GORILLAZ LEAD MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS". MTV Networks. September 28, 2005. Archived from the original on December 6, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
13. ^ Rawson-Jones, Ben (September 20, 2006). "MTV Europe Awards 2006: The Nominees". Digital Spy. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
14. ^ Levine, Nick (November 1, 2007). "In full: MTV Europe Music Awards winners". Digital Spy. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
15. ^ "US artists lead MTV Europe awards". BBC News. September 21, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
16. ^ "Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Post Malone Lead 2018 MTV EMA Nominees". Billboard. October 4, 2018.
17. ^ "ARIANA GRANDE, BILLIE EILISH, LIL NAS X, AND MORE: THE 2019 EMA NOMINATIONS ARE HERE". MTV. Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
18. ^ "READY, SET, VOTE! THE 2020 MTV EMA NOMINEES ARE HERE!". MTV Networks Europe. October 6, 2020. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
19. ^ "MTV EMA 2021 Winners". MTV. November 14, 2021. Archived from the original on November 14, 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
20. ^ "Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and SZA Lead 2023 MTV EMAs Nominations: See List". Billboard. October 4, 2023. Retrieved October 8, 2023.

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MTV Europe Music Award for Best Group

* Take That (1994)
* U2 (1995)
* Oasis (1996)
* Spice Girls (1997–1998)
* Backstreet Boys (1999–2000)
* Limp Bizkit (2001)
* Linkin Park (2002, 2007)
* Coldplay (2003)
* Outkast (2004)
* Gorillaz (2005)
* Depeche Mode (2006)
* Tokio Hotel (2009)
* BTS (2018–2021)

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Categories

Years|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* ~~2023~~
* 2024
* ~~2025~~

Main categories|

* Song
* Video
* Collaboration
* Artist
* Group
* New Act
* Pop
* Electronic
* Rock
* R&B
* Alternative
* Hip Hop
* Latin
* K-Pop
* Live Act
* Push Act
* Biggest Fans
* Video for Good
* Longform Video
* Global Icon

Regional and
worldwide categories|

* Africa
* Asia
* Australia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Caribbean
* France
* Germany
* Hungary
* India
* Israel
* Italy
* Latin America – North
* Latin America – Central
* Latin America – South
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Nordic
* Poland
* Portugal
* Spain
* Switzerland
* United Kingdom & Ireland
* United States

Defunct categories|

* Adria
* Africa, Middle East and India
* Album
* Amour
* Arabia
* Artist on the Rise
* Asia and Pacific
* Baltic
* Belgium
* Denmark
* Cover
* Czech Republic & Slovakia
* Europe
* Female
* Finland
* Greater China
* Greece
* Hard Rock
* Japan
* Korea
* Latin American
* Best Look
* Male
* Metaverse Performance
* Middle East
* Netherlands & Belgium
* North American
* Norway
* Rap
* Romania
* Russia
* Select
* Southeast Asia
* Sweden
* Taiwan
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* Urban
* Web
* World Stage Performance
* Worldwide

Special Awards|

* Free Your Mind

Nominations by
nationality of artist|

* British (English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Ireland)
* German
* French
* Irish
* Swedish
* Dutch
* Belgian
* Finnish
* Italian
* Icelandic
* Spanish
* Russian

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