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The video doubled sales of the Thriller album, [6] which sold a million copies a week following the video debut [10] and became the bestselling album of all time. [6] At the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Thriller won the awards for Viewers Choice, Best Overall Performance and Best Choreography, and was nominated for Best Concept Video, Best Male ...
100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll 2001-02-17 036: 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock 2000-11-13 031: 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on TV 2000-25-07 026: 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders 2002-05-06 021: 100 Greatest Dance Songs 2000-09-14 016B: 100 Greatest Women of Music (UK) 2002-09-30 016: 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll 1999-07-26 011: 100 ...
First artist to appear twice on MTV 16 "Iron Maiden" Iron Maiden: 1/2 1st Heavy Metal song to be played on MTV 17 "Keep on Loving You" REO Speedwagon: 1/3 First Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit to be played on MTV 18 "Bluer Than Blue" Michael Johnson: 1/2 19 "Message of Love" The Pretenders: 1/4 20 "Mr. Briefcase" Lee Ritenour: 1/2 21 "Double ...
In 1999, MTV ranked the video itself at #20 for The 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made [6] and VH1 ranked the song at #7 on their list of the 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the 90s. [7] In 2021, Cleveland.com ranked the song as number 110 of the best 200 rap songs, calling it "one of the great miracles of Nineties hip hop." [8]
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
"Hungry Like the Wolf" is a song by English new wave band Duran Duran. Written by the band members, the song was produced by Colin Thurston for the group's second studio album, Rio (1982). The song was released on 4 May 1982 as the band's fifth single in the United Kingdom, and 8 June 1983 in the United States.
But the format wasn't conducive to setting competitive ad rates: The entire programming lineup was identical—a random music video, then another one—and viewers could change the channel when a ...
NME placed the song at number two on its list of the "100 Best Tracks Of The '90s" in 2012, [105] and at number one on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2014. [106] In 2015, the song was also named the most iconic song of all time according to a study by Goldsmith's College, which analysed various songs featured in numerous ...