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:
YeMTV.com Kanye West You Hear It First Alicia Keys 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 BoyMTV.com Fallout Boy You Hear It First RihannaMTV.com Ne-YoMTV.com Jay-Z's Picks: Rihanna & Ne-Yo Chris BrownMTV.com Chris Brown You Hear It First ParamoreMTV.com Paramore You Hear It First The Jonas BrothersJonas Brothers You Hear It First Robin ThickeMTV.com Robin Thicke You Hear It First Sean PaulMTV.com Sean Paul You Hear It First Young JeezyMTV.com Young Jeezy You Hear It First Lily AllenMTV.com Lily Allen You Hear It First Joss StoneMTV.com Joss Stone You Hear It First Silversun PickupsMTV.com Silversun Pickups You Hear It First Arctic MonkeysMTV.com Arctic Monkeys You Hear It First t.A.T.u.MTV.com T.A.T.U. You Hear It First Tally Hall 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
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