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The first music video ever aired on MTV was 'Video Killed the Radio Star' by The Buggles. Prophetic branding.

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MTV launched on August 1, 1981, and opened with that track as a symbolic “new era” moment. It helped make visuals a standard part of pop competition for decades.

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