A look back at some of the songs that helped define one of music’s most influential decades. The selections reflect the wide range of styles that shaped popular music during the era.

MTV helped bring music videos to the masses. Artists rose to the occasion, creating timeless videos for the network to play on repeat. While we’d shy away from crowning one band as the greatest music ...

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 ...

In the end, video didn’t just kill the radio star, it did itself in as well. After MTV’s parent company pulled the plug on its remaining music-only channels in the U.K., Ireland and Australia on New ...