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