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
- ^ 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.