MTV helped bring music videos to the masses. Artists rose to the occasion, creating timeless videos for the network to play on repeat. While we’d shy away from crowning one band as the greatest music ...

We can’t talk about ’80s MTV without mentioning Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller.” It’s perhaps an obvious choice, but it wouldn’t feel right to leave it out. “Thriller” epitomized the music video ...

Music videos came of age in the 1980s – where promotional clips had usually been perfunctory mimed performances, the advent ...

The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

One of Mötley Crüe’s biggest hits was initially rejected by their record label, but the song subsequently became one of MTV’s most-watched videos, so much so that the network eventually pulled it from ...

The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms. By David Browne Like many who’d grown ...