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 ...

Sabrina Carpenter accepts Song of the Year for "Espresso" at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV) MTV has announced the 2025 Video Music Awards nominees for ...

There are sure to be more people saying, “I want my MTV” in the near future. The world’s first 24-hour music broadcaster is set to shut down five of its UK channels including MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that in addition to streaming, (see last week’s column), YouTube is also considered a primary music platform for lots and lots of people? Chances are high you did, because over two ...

MTV kick-started a new era of music and pop culture in 1981, when it went on air for the first time, emblematically playing ...

Yeah, I know it's still on and has, in fact, spun off to other channels, but I miss the MTV of my youth -- when they actually showed videos most of the time. Twenty-five years ago, the world of music ...

Many moments in the singer's storied career have been noted for being provocative or attention-getting. In November 1985, MTV's refusal to air the music video for “Justify My Love,” the first single ...

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 ...

An alternative title for I Want My MTV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution could be Drugs and Money. As we learn in Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum’s splendid oral history, music ...