MTV has announced a return to its original music video format, first debuted in 1981, ahead of the 2025 VMAs. For one week, the network will play exclusively music videos, but there's a catch. Here ...

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, ...

The brilliant and cathartic release and the characters demand to finally be seen resonated strongly in the MTV era, too.

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 in the ’80s is typically associated with the computerized, neon-tinged sounds of MTV, but there was much more to this ...

After more than four decades of shaping music and youth culture, MTV is preparing to bid farewell to five of its iconic music channels. On 12 October 2025, Paramount Global announced that MTV Music, ...