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reached its peak with Disco Demolition Night. Videos did not exist for most hits by US acts, and those that did were usually composed of footage from concert performances. When the cable music channel MTV launched on 1 August 1981, it had little choice but to play a large number of music videos from British new wave acts. The Buggles' 1979 hit "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first music video shown on MTV

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