Below, we discuss a handful of such bands, songs, and music videos that, without MTV, may not have become the smash hit sensations that they were in their heyday. Not only did MTV play the heck out of ...

Now that the film and music awards season has passed with more than a little controversy, let's discuss the greatest vehicle for the mass communication and marketing of LGBTQ culture. Several months ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: 40 years ago today an upstart cable television channel was launched that would have a seismic impact on music, entertainment and pop culture. On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 ...

Eager to reinvent itself, MTV is reaching back to the future, restoring more music to the mix. The network has announced plans to launch “Wonderland,” billed as MTV’s first weekly live music ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the 2025 MTV VMAS, pop music superfans relished in every performance, including Sabrina Carpenter's. (Photo illustration: Yahoo ...

It's obvious now, but when MTV first launched 40 years ago this summer, the idea was relatively novel that a musical artist would feel compelled to make mini-movie versions of their songs. That's ...

The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards are here, and this year, CBS is the one saying, “I want my MTV!” The broadcast channel is airing the awards show for the first time, while MTV, a corporate sibling on ...