When it comes to music videos, there is a before and after. There was a time when music videos weren’t prized like they were in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior, they were rarely seen promo materials. But ...

What were the best rock music videos for each year of the 1980s? It was a decade that set the standard for what the music video can be and we saw the growth explode over the course of the 1980s.

MTV launched in 1981, forever changing how music was delivered to the masses. Round-the-clock music television meant that artists and bands had a new platform with which to share their music, helping ...

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

Since MTV launched in the early 1980s, music videos have served as both artistic expression and cultural lightning rod. What started as a new medium for marketing songs quickly became a battleground ...

MTV launched in 1981 and within two years the economics of the music industry had rearranged themselves around a medium nobody had planned for. Some artists understood immediately. They didn’t make ...