Who won the MTV Best New Artist Award in 1991 for "Right Here, Right Now"?

Jesus Jones won the MTV Best New Artist Award in 1991 for “Right Here, Right Now.” The British alternative-rock band’s energetic single became one of the defining crossover hits of the early 1990s, blending rock guitars with electronic production and a danceable beat.

“Right Here, Right Now” was released in 1990 and was inspired partly by the political changes taking place around the end of the Cold War, including the fall of the Berlin Wall. The song’s video helped introduce Jesus Jones to a much wider international audience and earned the group MTV recognition the following year.

A common mix-up is confusing the song’s title with another famous track of the same name by Fatboy Slim, released years later. The award also refers to MTV’s Best New Artist in a Video category, rather than a general lifetime or genre award. Jesus Jones was fronted by Mike Edwards and formed in Bradford, England, in 1982.