Wikipedia:Today's featured list/July 19, 2021
The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the most prestigious competitive award of and the final award presented at the annual MTV Video Music Awards. The award was created by the US network MTV to honor artists with the best music videos. At the first MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in 1984, the Video of the Year honor was presented to the Cars for the video "You Might Think". Eminem holds the record for the most nominations, with seven as a lead artist. Beyoncé has the second-most nominations, with five as a lead artist. David Lee Roth (1985), U2 (1988), and Lady Gaga (2010) are the only artists to have two Video of the Year nominations as a lead artist in a single ceremony. Among them, Gaga was the only to win, with "Bad Romance". Two artists have won Video of the Year and been honored with the Video Vanguard Award—an honorary award for artists who had "profound impact" on music videos and popular culture—in the same night: Peter Gabriel (pictured) in 1987 with "Sledgehammer", and Justin Timberlake (2013) with "Mirrors". (Full list...)