The iconic cable television channel, first launched in a small section of the East Coast on Aug. 1, 1981.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone has a story about where they were when they first saw Michael Jackson's "Thriller"—arguably the best music video of all ...

MTV flipped a switch on August 1, 1981, and gave music a face. Labels started treating videos like serious investments, and artists began competing for airtime. As viewers kept the channel on, ...

MTV is known for debuting quite a few stellar music videos for high-charting songs in pop, rock, and hip-hop. Country songs didn’t make it to MTV often in the early days of music-videos-only ...

Now, more than four decades later, fans can hear the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how MTV went from a risky idea to ...

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 See more of our ...

Everyone has a story about where they were when they first saw Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”—arguably the best music video of all time (of all time)—or how they would run home from school to catch a ...