{"id":31330,"date":"2025-08-29T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31330\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:51:08","slug":"mtv-channels-will-play-videos-24-7-ahead-of-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31330\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV Channels Will Play Videos 24\/7 Ahead of Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStarting Monday (Sept. 1), several MTV channels will kick off a week of airing current and classic music videos 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe move is designed to celebrate MTV\u2019s legacy and to promote the 2025 MTV Video Music <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_awards\" data-tag=\"awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Awards<\/a>, which are set to go live Sunday, Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe videos will air across MTV2, MTV Live, MTV Classic and the Pluto channel \u201cMTV Biggest Pop\u201d \u2014 but, unfortunately, not the flagship channel itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe lineup will feature 700-plus music videos, many airing for the first time in more than a decade, curated into these 12 themed categories:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Best of the 1980s<\/li>\n<li>Best of the 1990s<\/li>\n<li>Videos That Go Bump in the Night\u00a0(scary videos)<\/li>\n<li>Videos That Make Us Howl\u00a0(videos starring animals)<\/li>\n<li>Best Celebrity Cameos<\/li>\n<li>Most VMA Victories (Taylor Swift, Beyonc\u00e9, Madonna and more)<\/li>\n<li>Most Headline-Worthy Videos\u00a0(most talked-about\/viral videos)<\/li>\n<li>Most Scandalous Videos\u00a0(sexiest videos)<\/li>\n<li>Bank-Breaking Videos\u00a0(most expensive videos)<\/li>\n<li>Craziest Videos of All Time<\/li>\n<li>The Birth of MTV\u00a0(videos aired on the day MTV launched: Aug. 1, 1981)<\/li>\n<li>TRL #1s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe videos were selected with an eye to representing all genres and as many artists as possible. But MTV revealed to Billboard the nine artists with the most videos among the 700 set for play in this weeklong video feast. Counting up, they are (with ties listed in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mariah Carey, 9<\/li>\n<li>*NSYNC, 9<\/li>\n<li>Justin Timberlake, 9<\/li>\n<li>Backstreet Boys, 11<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson, 12<\/li>\n<li>Eminem, 15<\/li>\n<li>Madonna, 17<\/li>\n<li>Beyonc\u00e9, 18<\/li>\n<li>Britney Spears, 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAll nine of these acts are MTV royalty. All but <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/eminem\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/eminem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eminem<\/a> and the two groups on the list (<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/n-sync\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/n-sync\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">*NSYNC<\/a> and <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/backstreet-boys\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/backstreet-boys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Backstreet Boys<\/a>) have received (or will soon receive) the Video Vanguard Award; <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mariah-carey\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mariah-carey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a> is slated to receive it this year. Combining the nine <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/justin-timberlake\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/justin-timberlake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Timberlake<\/a> videos on the list and the nine videos with his old group *NSYNC, JT pulls ahead of Eminem as the male artist with the most videos on the list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe MTV channels also plan to air \u201cinterstitials\u201d that celebrate music video fandom from iconic MTV personalities and such top stars as Alex Warren, Benson Boone, Carmen Electra, Chappell Roan, Connor Wood, Dasha, Davis Durleson, Doja Cat, Johnny Knoxville, Jon Bon Jovi, Mya, Olivia Rodrigo, Paris Hilton, Pauly D, Steve-O, Teddy Swims and Wyclef Jean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHere\u2019s a sample: Paris Hilton counting down her seven favorite music videos of all time:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 2025 MTV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/vmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vmas\" data-tag=\"vmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VMAs<\/a> are set to go live live coast-to-coast on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. ET\/5 p.m. PT airing on CBS, simulcast on MTV and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting Monday (Sept. 1), several MTV channels will kick off a week of airing current and classic music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[4648,18,117,19,17,1246,337,1247],"class_list":{"0":"post-31330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mtv-video-music-awards","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-vmas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}