You Hear It First

You Hear It First was an on-air MTV News program from 1999 to 2007 that gave the MTV audience a first look at hot emerging artists. Past You Hear It First artists that went on to success include:


 * Ye
 * 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 Boy
 * Rihanna
 * Ne-Yo
 * Chris Brown
 * Paramore
 * The Jonas Brothers
 * Robin Thicke
 * Sean Paul
 * Young Jeezy
 * Lily Allen
 * Joss Stone
 * Silversun Pickups
 * Arctic Monkeys
 * t.A.T.u.
 * Tally Hall
 * Fall Out Boy
 * 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
 * Chris Brown
 * Shiny Toy Guns
 * Rock Kills Kid
 * Matt Costa
 * Thrice
 * Dirty Pretty Things
 * Lady Sovereign
 * Cassie
 * The Feeling
 * Kittie
 * Tantric