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Madonna has won 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including the 1986 Video Vanguard Award for which she became the first female honoree. [6] In 2003, MTV named her "The Greatest Music Video Star Ever", saying "Madonna's innovation, creativity and contribution to the music video art form" is what puts her at the top of the list. [7]
Madonna, surrounded by the Batukadeiras Orchestra, during the song's music video. The music video begins with a message that reads, "Batuque is a style of music created by women that originated in Cape Verde, some say the birth place of slave trade.
At the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Like a Prayer" was nominated in the Viewer's Choice and Video of the Year categories, winning the former. [93] Coincidentally, the award show was sponsored by Pepsi that year, and when Madonna received the award onstage she added, "I would really like to thank Pepsi for causing so much ...
Material Girl" was nominated for best female video at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost to Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It". [49] The video was ranked at position 54 on VH1's 100 Greatest Videos. [50] On YouTube, the video became her ninth video to surpass 100 million views.
The song held #1 in the U.S. charts for six weeks straight. Madonna’s music videos began to saturate MTV, a new and highly influential music broadcasting machine at the time.
An accompanying music video for "Ray of Light" was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and shows scenes from different cities around the world, with Madonna singing the song in front of them. The video was critically acclaimed, receiving the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, as well as winning five awards at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.
Madonna responded to it in her own video and said, "All you people out there who are making videos to my new single, '4 Minutes,' keep up the good work, nice job." [ 60 ] "4 Minutes" was nominated for an award at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in the "Best Dancing in a Video" category, but lost to the Pussycat Dolls ' single " When I Grow Up ...
Tom Breihan said it was the only Madonna video that "gives as much screen time to a mustachioed Christopher Walken as it does to [her]". [2] "Live to Tell" was considered the singer's 17th best music video by Samuel R. Murrian, and can be found on the 2009 compilation Celebration: The Video Collection. [75] [31]