J.J. Jacksonwas the oldest and most experienced of the original MTV VJs, having started his radio career at Boston’s WBCN in the ’60s. He then moved to the L.A. station KLOS, where he stayed for 10 years and became known as one of the few Black DJs at a rock station. After t...
Asia (1982):It wasn't the prog-redux moment many might have expected with a new supergroup featuring members of Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer and King Crimson. Instead, it was a huge pop hit. So huge, in fact, that Asia almost immediately started splitting apart. 'Number of the Beast' ...
Asia (1982):It wasn't the prog-redux moment many might have expected with a new supergroup featuring members of Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer and King Crimson. Instead, it was a huge pop hit. So huge, in fact, that Asia almost immediately started splitting apart. Number of the Beast EMI...
Asia (1982):It wasn't the prog-redux moment many might have expected with a new supergroup featuring members of Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer and King Crimson. Instead, it was a huge pop hit. So huge, in fact, that Asia almost immediately started splitting apart. Number of the Beast EMI...
Cyrus's career kick-started in 2004, when she beat out a thousand hopefuls to land the leading role of Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana. The show, which aired from 2006 to 2011, catapulted her to fame, and she quickly became a teen idol. Her ...
See the complete winners list of the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
Who started MTV? MTV's original format was created bymedia executive Robert W. Pittman, later president and CEO of MTV Networks. He tested the format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, on New York City's WNBC-TV in the late 1970s. ...
During the original broadcast of the show, a commercial faded in the Nine Inch Nails NIN logo on a black screen while playing a combination of music that started as a solo piano piece and morphed into an electronic/industrial beat (which would later found out to be the songs "La Mer" an...
VJs were first seen on television in the early 1980s when MTV went on the air. As MTV became popular and the audience for music videos increased different kinds of music video channels started broadcasting. By the 1990s international music video channels like Channel V in Asia and VIVA in Eu...
Originally, Wonder was a child prodigy who started out in the general Motown mold, but he took control of his vision in the '70s, spinning off a series of incredible albums that were as popular as they were acclaimed; most of his reputation rests on these works, which most prominently ...