For a lucky few, writing music for a theme song can rake in millions of dollars and be, as one songwriter puts it, "the gift ...

The New Wave band Devo released "Uncontrollable Urge" in 1978. Today, the single makes founding member Mark Mothersbaugh ...

16 & Pregnant has been a cultural phenomenon since the reality series debuted on MTV in 2009. Chronically the lives of young women experiencing teenage pregnancy, the series launched a franchise ...

Music videos have been around since the 1960s. However, the art form officially "arrived" in 1981 with the launch of MTV.

Summing up 50 years and nearly 1,000 'SNL' musical performances is a tall order, but directors Questlove and Oz Rodriguez ...

When the original logo was created by Manhattan Design in 1981, no corporate colour guidelines were given ... making it as supposedly eclectic as the music played on the channel. As a result, the MTV ...

as well as genre-busting efforts by folks that subverted tropes built up since the arrival of MTV in August of 1981. What’s perhaps most interesting about this list of the best music videos of ...

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"Ladies and Gentleman, rock 'n' roll." MTV began its first broadcast with these words just after midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, followed by the music video for The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." ...

The hits we remember from the 1980s can be split into two categories: the ones we continue to love, and those we continue to ...