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Nov 6, 2011 · MTV went on the air with those words, a minute after midnight on Aug. 1, 1981. The first video was, of course, "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles. Few people saw the fledgling network ...
Jul 28, 2021 · Billy Idol: Even before MTV, there were bands making music clips. The Beatles did loads of them, for “Paperback Writer,” for “Strawberry Fields.” In England in the ‘70s, there was a TV ...
- Craig Marks
- Music Editor
- craig.marks@latimes.com
- Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time"
- "American Idol"
- Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road"
- Spice Girls at Brit Awards
- The Boyband Boom
- Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You"
- Elton John's "Candle in The Wind 1997"
- Los Del Rio's "Macarena"
- Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
- Beyonce's "Crazy in Love"
Pop music changed forever when 16-year-old Britney Spearsdropped her debut single, "... Baby One More Time" in 1998. From the opening "oh baby baby" to the iconic video, featuring Spears in a schoolgirl outfit and pigtails, the song has gone down in history as probably the best debut single ever and an all time pop great, and catapulted Spears into...
In 2002, American Idoldebuted and changed pop music forever by giving aspiring singers a new path to stardom via auditioning for judges and appealing to the nation for votes. Whatever you think about the concept and its effect on music, without Idol, we would not have Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert or Jennifer Hudson. Country rap wa...
After becoming a success on TikTok, "Old Town Road" made it onto the Billboard country music charts, but was disqualified on the grounds it didn't fit the genre. Enter Billy Ray Cyrus, who added a verse in the remix, and "Old Town Road" sat at number one on the Hot 100 for a record-breaking nineteen consecutive weeks. "Old Town Road" sparked a conv...
In 1996, pop music changed forever with the introduction of Baby Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice, Sporty Spice and Posh Spice, as the Spice Girlsburst onto the scene with Wannabe. While the band delivered tune after tune and a girl power manifesto in just a few short years, perhaps their most memorable moment came in 1997 when they performed "Wann...
There wasn't a better time to be in a boyband than in the 1990s. The United Kingdom had Take That and 5ive, Ireland had Boyzone and Westlife, and the States had Boyz II Men and *NSYNC. Perhaps the biggest of them all, though, was Backstreet Boys, who achieved stratospheric success with songs like "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" and "As Long As You ...
There are few cover versions that surpass the original, but Whitney made Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" her own when she covered it for The Bodyguardsoundtrack in 1992. The song spent a then-record breaking 14 weeks at number one, and is one of the best-selling singles of all time. It also became Whitney's signature song, and won the Gramm...
Few songs sum up a moment in time like the reworking of Elton John's 1973 song "Candle In The Wind," which was released to mark the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Bernie Taupin's original lyrics were written about Marilyn Monroe("Goodbye Norma Jean") but the lyrics were tweaked following the tragic death of Diana, a close friend of John's. He p...
Los Del Rio released "Macarena" in 1993, but it wasn't until 1996, when the Bayside Boys produced a remix with English lyrics, that it became a sensation. As well as spending 14 weeks at number one, "Macarena" gained its place in the party hall of fame thanks to its corresponding dance, which pretty much everybody has done at one point in their lif...
Mariahnot only broke records with this 1994 track, but updated the Christmas standards list. Her festive song finally reached number one in 2019, 25 years after its release, marking the longest journey to number one in the U.S., and is one of the biggest-selling singles of all time.
Not only considered one of the greatest songs of the past three decades, "Crazy In Love" changed the landscape of pop for good by heralding the introduction of a solo superstar. It wasn't Beyonce's debut solo single—that was "Work It Out" from the Austin Powers in Goldmembersoundtrack—but the moment the Destiny's Child star strutted down that stree...
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Jul 30, 2021 · Today, we’ll look at eight times MTV’s impact was seen at awards shows in the 1980s. January 1982: Just five months after MTV went on the air, two early MTV favorites, Go-Go’s and Adam & the ...
Sep 27, 2023 · Looking back from a distance of 30 years, MTV’s Jocelyn Vena said, “That three minutes in 1984 was the point when Madonna became a superstar.”. It was also when MTV’s VMAs became “must ...
Mar 6, 2021 · In the 1980s the music industry was divided into two worlds. On one side was the big-money mainstream world of MTV-approved pop and rock stars, the all-important singles and album charts, and pay ...
Aug 19, 2022 · A few months after Street Songs went platinum, a new rock ’n’ roll music network emerged, MTV (Music Television).It officially launched on August 21, 1981. MTV announced its programming format would be AOR (album-oriented rock), and would include hard rock, new wave, and heavy metal videos (Paul McCartney, Adam Ant, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, the Pretenders, Blondie, Eurythmics, Tom Petty ...
