MTV Europe Music Award for Best Electronic

The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Electronic was originally entitled Best Dance and was first awarded in 1994 until 2003. It was one of the original two genre categories that were added to the MTV Europe Music Awards that year. After an interruption of eight years, the category was revived in 2012, in which it was renamed to its current title.

The biggest winner on this category is David Guetta, with six awards. The second biggest winner is The Prodigy, with four awards. Guetta is also the artist with the most consecutive wins, winning four times from 2020 to 2023. Calvin Harris leads the number of nominations, with 12. He has been nominated every year since 2012.

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

† indicates an MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video–winning artist.

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

1990s

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Year	Artist	Ref
1994
	The Prodigy	^[1]
	2 Unlimited
	D:Ream
	Jam & Spoon
	Reel 2 Real
1995
	East 17	^[2]
	Ini Kamoze
	La Bouche
	Moby
	Sin with Sebastian
1996
	The Prodigy	^[3]
	Everything but the Girl ‡
	Los del Río
	Robert Miles
	Mark Morrison
1997
	The Prodigy ‡	^[4]
	Backstreet Boys
	The Chemical Brothers ‡
	Daft Punk
	Spice Girls †
1998
	The Prodigy †	^[5]
	Dario G
	Faithless
	Madonna ‡
	Fatboy Slim
1999
	Fatboy Slim ‡	^[6]
	Basement Jaxx
	The Chemical Brothers
	Jamiroquai
	Mr. Oizo

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2000s

More information Year, Artist ...

Year	Artist	Ref
2000
	Madonna	^[7]
	Artful Dodger
	Moby
	Moloko
	Sonique
2001
	Gorillaz	^[8]
	Basement Jaxx
	Daft Punk
	Faithless
	Roger Sanchez
2002
	Kylie Minogue	^[9]
	Sophie Ellis-Bextor
	DB Boulevard
	Moby
	Röyksopp
2003
	Panjabi MC	^[10]
	The Chemical Brothers
	Junior Senior
	Moby
	Paul Oakenfold

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2010s

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Year	Artist	Ref
2012
	David Guetta	^[11]
	Avicii ‡
	Calvin Harris †
	Skrillex ‡
	Swedish House Mafia
2013
	Avicii	^[12]
	Daft Punk
	Calvin Harris
	Skrillex
	Afrojack
2014
	Calvin Harris ‡	^[13]
	Afrojack
	Avicii
	David Guetta
	Hardwell
2015
	Martin Garrix	^[14]
	Avicii
	Calvin Harris
	David Guetta
	Major Lazer
2016
	Martin Garrix	^[15]
	Afrojack ‡
	Calvin Harris †
	David Guetta
	Major Lazer
2017
	David Guetta	^[16]
	Calvin Harris ‡
	Major Lazer ‡
	Martin Garrix
	The Chainsmokers
2018
	Marshmello ‡	^[17]
	David Guetta ‡
	Calvin Harris ‡
	Martin Garrix
	The Chainsmokers ‡
2019
	Martin Garrix	^[18]
	Calvin Harris ‡
	DJ Snake ‡
	Marshmello ‡
	The Chainsmokers †

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2020s

More information Year, Artist ...

Year	Artist	Ref
2020
	David Guetta	^[19]
	Calvin Harris
	Kygo
	Marshmello
	Martin Garrix
	The Chainsmokers
2021
	David Guetta	^[20]
	Calvin Harris
	Joel Corry
	Marshmello
	Skrillex
	Swedish House Mafia
2022
	David Guetta	^[21]
	Calvin Harris
	DJ Snake
	Marshmello
	Swedish House Mafia
	Tiësto
2023
	David Guetta	^[22]
	Alesso
	Calvin Harris
	Swedish House Mafia
	Peggy Gou
	Tiësto
2024
	Calvin Harris	^[23]
	David Guetta
	Disclsoure
	DJ Snake
	Fred again..
	Swedish House Mafia

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MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video

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"Brits, U.S. top MTV Euro noms". Variety. October 2, 1998. Retrieved October 9, 2020.

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"Britney, BSB Top Nominations For MTV Europe Awards; Spears, Mariah, Puffy, Manson To Perform". MTV News. October 5, 1999. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved October 19, 2011.

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"MTV Europe Music Awards: The winners". BBC News. November 6, 2003. Retrieved October 8, 2020.

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MTV Europe Music Award for Best Electronic

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MTV Europe Music Award for Best Electronic

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