If there's one channel that made all the groove-worthy songs trend among a generation and make them part of people's music playlist, then MTV is it. The channel that shaped the music and youth culture ...

After more than four decades of shaping music and youth culture, MTV is preparing to bid farewell to five of its iconic music channels. On 12 October 2025, Paramount Global announced that MTV Music, ...

Most of MTV's 24-hour music channels across the globe are permanently shut down as of Dec. 31, 2025, and fans are touched by the poignant final songs each network chose. While MTV's flagship channel, ...

Every generation has that one place where everything cool happens. Whether it was “American Bandstand,” “Solid Gold,” “Soul Train” or G4, it’s the place where young people would find out what they’re ...

MTV is known for debuting quite a few stellar music videos for high-charting songs in pop, rock, and hip-hop. Country songs didn’t make it to MTV often in the early days of music-videos-only ...

Nearly 40 years after debuting in the United Kingdom, MTV is retiring several of its channels there. According to BBC News, MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live will no longer be ...

MTV came into existence in the 80s and thoroughly changed the music landscape for decades by popularizing music videos in a hip, cool, new way. Some music videos from that early era of the network are ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Friday, October 10, MTV announced that it will close five channels ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

As of December 31, 2025, MTV has closed the book on a defining era of music television. The music video giant has officially shut down its remaining 24-hour music channels as trends have notably ...