You Hear It First
You Hear It First was an on-air MTV News program from 2000 to 2007 that gave the MTV audience a first look at hot emerging artists. The show began as a segment on MTV News 1515 and then spun off into its own half-hour tv series airing on MTV2. Past You Hear It First artists that went on to success include:
- Ye[1]
- Alicia Keys[2]
- Coldplay
- John Legend
- The Killers
- The Pink Spiders
- The Click Five
- Bloc Party
- Cute Is What We Aim For
- Franz Ferdinand
- The Game
- Taproot
- My Chemical Romance
- Fall Out Boy[3]
- Rihanna[4]
- Ne-Yo[5]
- Chris Brown[6]
- Paramore[7]
- The Jonas Brothers[8]
- Robin Thicke[9]
- Sean Paul[10]
- Young Jeezy[11]
- Lily Allen[12]
- Joss Stone[13]
- Silversun Pickups[14]
- Arctic Monkeys[15]
- t.A.T.u.[16]
- Tally Hall[17]
- Nightmare of You
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Cory Gunz
- Tiffany Evans
- Something for Rockets
- Rise Against
- AM Sixty
- Whitestarr
- Brie Larson
- Rupee
- The Blackout Effect
- The Bens (a supergroup consists of Ben Folds, Ben Kweller and Ben Lee)
- Steve Burns
- Acceptance
- Dropping Daylight
- The Vines
- Rosco P
- Hidden Cameras
- Stellastarr
- Kings of Leon
- Fefe Dobson
- Kiley Dean
- Little Brother
- Fiction Plane
- Jin
- Earlimart
- The Exies
- The Beu Sisters
- Interpol
- Rooney
- Idiot Pilot
- Division of Laura Lee
- Desaparecidos
- Bazaar Royale
- Lyrics Born
- The Postal Service
- The Distillers
- Eisley
- The Like
- The Veronicas
- Elefant
- Shout Out Louds
- World Leader Pretend
- Lucy Woodward
- Scissorfight
- Waltham
- Far-Less
- Shiny Toy Guns
- Rock Kills Kid
- Matt Costa
- Thrice
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Lady Sovereign
- Cassie
- The Feeling
- Kittie (first act to ever be profiled on the show)
- Tantric
- Fu Manchu
- Spooks
- The Mooney Suzuki
- Blu Cantrell
- Junior Senior
- Shadows Fall
- Danko Jones
- Howie Day
- The Walkmen
- The Darkness
- Death from Above 1979
- O.A.R.
- Plain White Ts
- Louis XIV
- Paolo Nutini
- John Butler Trio
- Loudermilk
- Sondre Lerche
References
[edit]- ↑ MTV.com Kanye West You Hear It First
- ↑ "THE SWORD Named MTV NEWS 'You Hear It First' Artist". Blabbermouth. February 22, 2006. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ↑ MTV.com Fallout Boy You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Rihanna's First Interview with MTV News
- ↑ MTV.com Jay-Z's Picks: Rihanna & Ne-Yo Archived August 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ MTV.com Chris Brown You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Paramore You Hear It First
- ↑ Jonas Brothers You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Robin Thicke You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Sean Paul You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Young Jeezy You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Lily Allen You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Joss Stone You Hear It First Archived November 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ MTV.com Silversun Pickups You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com Arctic Monkeys You Hear It First
- ↑ MTV.com T.A.T.U. You Hear It First
- ↑ "MTV.com Tally Hall You Hear It First". MTV.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2006.