Sometimes the pleasure of journalism is that you learn everything you can about a topic and then share that information with the world. A few weeks ago, I knew a lot about the music-video business in the 1980s–that’s what happens when you cowrite a book with the original MTV VJs–but I wasn’t too savvy about how the industry worked today, beyond a vague awareness that it had all migrated to YouTube and so it had to make financial sense somehow. After talking to a whole bunch of experts, I know a lot more now about the 21st-century music video, and if you read this article I wrote for Billboard, so will you.

posted 15 August 2018 in Articles and tagged Billboard, MTV, music video, VJ. no comments yet