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MTV VMA Video of the Year winners

Order by the year of the MTV Video Music Awards where each video won Video of the Year. You place all 43 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

MTV VMA Video of the Year winners
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How to play the VMA Video of the Year timeline

Each card is a music video that won Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, with the artist printed below the song title. Order them by the year of the show where each one won. The timeline opens with one winner placed and its year visible; then you choose a gap for every new video. Guess well and the year is revealed. Guess badly and the video moves to its real place, and you're down one of three lives.

The winners trace MTV's own story: new wave and rock clips from the channel's early days, then grunge, hip-hop and big-budget pop spectacles. Some artists won more than once, which helps only if you know their videography in order. A video's award year doesn't always line up with when you first heard the song, since some won the summer after the single came out. The recent stretch is crowded with the same few pop stars, so knowing their album eras matters.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 43 cards you might be dealt, with 15 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • You Might Think The Cars
  • The Boys of Summer Don Henley
  • Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel
  • Need You Tonight / Mediate INXS
  • Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor
  • Losing My Religion R.E.M.
  • Jeremy Pearl Jam
  • Cryin' Aerosmith
  • Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Virtual Insanity Jamiroquai
  • Doo Wop (That Thing) Lauryn Hill
  • The Real Slim Shady Eminem
  • Without Me Eminem
  • Work It Missy Elliott
  • Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day
  • Umbrella Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
  • Piece of Me Britney Spears
  • Bad Romance Lady Gaga
  • Firework Katy Perry
  • Mirrors Justin Timberlake
  • Wrecking Ball Miley Cyrus
  • Formation Beyoncé
  • Humble Kendrick Lamar
  • You Need to Calm Down Taylor Swift
  • Blinding Lights The Weeknd
  • All Too Well: The Short Film Taylor Swift
  • Anti-Hero Taylor Swift
  • Brighter Days Ahead Ariana Grande

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