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The MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video is one of the four original general awards that have been handed out every year since the very first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. In 2007, though, the award was briefly renamed Male Artist of the Year, and it awarded the artist's whole body of work for that year rather than a specific video. However, the award returned to its original name in 2008. So far five artists are tied for most wins in this category: Tom Petty, Beck, Will Smith, Eminem, and Justin Timberlake, all of whom have won this category twice.