Planning - The Birth of MTV

This is the first music video played on MTV. (Buggles - Video killed the radio star)

The birth of MTV on August 1st, 1981 changed the way the music industry operated. MTV stands for Music TeleVision. The birth of MTV allowed them to play music videos all the time and this opened up the market, allowing every music artist and band to have a promotional video. The first song played on MTV was Buggles - Video killed the radio star.


Music artists benefited from MTV as they would have their song and video played repeatedly to the audience and MTV would benefit as the artists would pay them to play their video and song.

MTV was extremely popular at the time and has now evolved in to multiple channels all part of MTV such as MTV Base, MTV Hits, MTV Dance etc.
In addition to this, MTV every year have an award ceremony to celebrate the most popular/successful music videos called The VMAs (The Video Music Awards).

This is the logo for MTV