{"id":33562,"date":"2025-10-24T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2025\/10\/first-country-music-video-played-on-mtv-was-dwight-yoakam\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:18:44","slug":"first-country-music-video-played-on-mtv-was-dwight-yoakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/first-country-music-video-played-on-mtv-was-dwight-yoakam\/","title":{"rendered":"First Country Music Video Played On MTV Was Dwight Yoakam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before YouTube, TikTok, and endless scrolling, there was MTV.<\/p>\n<p>If you wanted to watch music videos, it was the only channel that mattered.<\/p>\n<p>MTV launched on August 1st, 1981, but it took five years before a country music video finally got a spot.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what the first country video was? Dwight Yoakam&#8217;s &#8220;Honky Tonk Man&#8221; in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Some people will fight this and say that the first country video on MTV was actually Juice Newton&#8217;s 1981 hit &#8220;Angel of the Morning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It reached number 22 on the country chart that year,\u00a0 but that feels a lot more pop than country. Juice even received a Grammy nomination in the pop category that year.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re giving the title to Dwight Yoakam.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eBlc2FN99is\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can You Name the First Country Music Video Ever Played on MTV?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[658,6726,6727,29],"class_list":["post-33562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dwight-yoakam","tag-honky-tonk-man","tag-mtv","tag-music-video"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 18:01:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/first-country-music-video-played-on-mtv-was-dwight-yoakam\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}