This classic MTV website goes where Netflix dare not venture

Call it the day the music died. On December 31, 2025, MTV’s last music-only stations shut down forever​.

The last video played on MTV Music in the U.K. was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles—which was also the first video ever played on the original MTV channel in the United States back in 1981. That’s a good 44 years of music history, bookended with a song that explores the theme of technology changing the way people experience art. It’s beautiful, in a way: A song that mourns...