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MTV Music is a British pay television channel operated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. The brand was first launched in the UK and Ireland before launching in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Unlike other MTV Music channels, this channel offers subtitles on selected programmes.
MTV's first day on the air was rebroadcast on VH1 Classic in 2006 and again in 2011 (the latter celebrating the channel's 30th anniversary). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first hour on the air was broadcast again on August 1, 2016, and was called MTV Hour One, as part of VH1 Classic's planned re-launch as MTV Classic, MTV itself, and additionally streamed on ...
The MTV Europe Music Award for the best UK & Ireland act has been a regional category since 1998 and have been won by 18 different acts . The last Irish winners to win in this category was Westlife in 2000.
The Buggles are an English new wave band formed in London in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes.They are best known for their 1979 debut single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which topped the UK singles chart and reached number one in 15 other countries and was chosen as the song to launch MTV in 1981.
Dig Out Your Soul, the band's seventh studio album, was released on 6 October and went to number one in the UK and number five on the Billboard 200. The band started touring for a projected 18-month-long tour expected to last till September 2009, with support from Kasabian, the Enemy and Twisted Wheel. [89]
Musical Youth would also be the first black act to have a music video played on the newly founded channel MTV. [8] [9] Their debut album The Youth of Today, released in the same year, placed in the top 40 in the UK, West Germany and the US, and the top 10 in Canada. It was certified gold in the UK and Canada.
The first band to owe their American success solely down to their glossy music video receiving heavy rotation on MTV were the synthpop band A Flock of Seagulls, whose single "I Ran (So Far Away)" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1982. [51]: 340, 342–3 In 1983, 30% of the record sales were from British acts. Eighteen of ...
The band's MTV Unplugged performance from Porchester Hall was shown on MTV Music on 23 December 2021 and globally throughout late December. [142] [143] The band performed as the headline act at the final of the 2022 season of The Hundred, and it was shown live on BBC Two and Sky Sports. [144]