MTV Video Music Award for Best K-Pop

MTV Video Music Award for
Best K-Pop
MTV Video Music Award for ; Best K-Pop
Awarded for	K-pop music songs
Country	United States
Presented by	MTV
First awarded	2019
Currently held by	Lisa – "Rockstar" (2024)
Most awards	BTS (3)
Most nominations	BTS (4)
Website	VMA website

The MTV Video Music Award for Best K-Pop award was first introduced at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2019. It was criticized by K-pop fans for segregating their artists from major categories such as Video of the Year and Artist of the Year.^[1]^[2]^[3]

BTS is the most-awarded artist in this category, having won the award three times. BTS is also the most-nominated act with four nominations.

Recipients

2010s

Recipients
Year^[a]	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Ref.
2019	BTS (featuring Halsey)	"Boy with Luv"	Blackpink – "Kill This Love" Exo – "Tempo" Monsta X (featuring French Montana) – "Who Do U Love?" NCT 127 – "Regular" Tomorrow X Together – "Cat & Dog"	^[4]

2020s

Recipients
Year^[b]	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Ref.
2020	BTS	"On"	Exo – "Obsession" (G)I-dle – "Oh My God" Monsta X – "Someone's Someone" Red Velvet – "Psycho" Tomorrow X Together – "9 and Three Quarters (Run Away)"	^[5]
2021	BTS	"Butter"	Blackpink and Selena Gomez – "Ice Cream" (G)I-dle – "Dumdi Dumdi" Monsta X – "Gambler" Seventeen – "Ready to Love" Twice – "Alcohol-Free"	^[6]
2022	Lisa	"Lalisa"	BTS – "Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)" Itzy – "Loco" Seventeen – "Hot" Stray Kids – "Maniac" Twice – "The Feels"	^[7]
2023	Stray Kids	"S-Class"	Aespa – "Girls" Blackpink – "Pink Venom" Fifty Fifty – "Cupid" Seventeen – "Super" Tomorrow X Together – "Sugar Rush Ride"	^[8]
2024	Lisa	"Rockstar"	Jungkook (featuring Latto) – "Seven" NCT Dream – "Smoothie" NewJeans – "Super Shy" Stray Kids – "Lalalala" Tomorrow X Together – "Deja Vu"	^[9]

Statistics

Artists with multiple wins

3 wins

BTS

2 wins

Lisa

Artists with multiple nominations

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

References

^ Willman, Chris (2019-07-23). "MTV VMAs Have Created a K-Pop Category … and Some BTS Fans Are Livid About It". Variety. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
^ Liu, Marian Chia-Ming (2020-01-30). "The 'separate but equal' rules of American music awards". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
^ Ziwei, Puah (2019-07-24). "BTS fans criticise 2019 MTV VMAs snubs and new "Best K-pop" category". NME. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
^ Warner, Denise (August 26, 2019). "Here Are All the Winners From the 2019 MTV VMAs". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 27, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
^ Warner, Denise (August 30, 2020). "Here Are All the Winners From the 2020 MTV VMAs". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
^ Hailu, Selome (September 12, 2021). "2021 MTV Video Music Awards: The Complete Winners List (Updating Live)". Variety. Archived from the original on September 13, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
^ Aswad, Jem (July 26, 2022). "MTV VMA 2022 Nominations Revealed: Kendrick Lamar, Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow, Harry Styles, More". Variety. Archived from the original on July 26, 2022. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
^ Stenzel, Wesley (September 13, 2023). "Taylor Swift wins big at 2023 MTV VMAs: See the full list of winners". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on September 13, 2023. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
^ Horowitz, Steven J. (September 12, 2024). "Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and Megan Thee Stallion Win Big at MTV Video Music Awards, Plus Full List of Winners". Variety. Archived from the original on September 12, 2024. Retrieved September 12, 2024.

Notes

^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.
^ Each year is linked to the article about the MTV Video Music Awards held that year.