{{Short description|US news program on MTV News (2001–2007)}} {{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''''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: {{div col begin}} *Ye<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20020803173832/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/west_kanye/ Kanye West You Hear It First]</ref> *Alicia Keys<ref>{{cite news |title=THE SWORD Named MTV NEWS 'You Hear It First' Artist |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/the-sword-named-mtv-news-you-hear-it-first-artist/ |newspaper=Blabbermouth |date=February 22, 2006 |access-date=February 14, 2015 }}</ref> *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<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20040404171351/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/fallout_boy/ Fallout Boy You Hear It First]</ref> *Rihanna<ref>MTV.com [https://archive.today/20120908120130/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1627016/rihanna-talked-success-her-first-mtv-news-interview.jhtml Rihanna's First Interview with MTV News]</ref> *Ne-Yo<ref>MTV.com [http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/jayz_picks/ Jay-Z's Picks: Rihanna & Ne-Yo] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830053302/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/jayz_picks/ |date=August 30, 2011 }}</ref> *Chris Brown<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20050708030838/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/brown_chris/ Chris Brown You Hear It First]</ref> *Paramore<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20081229120446/http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/70185/you-hear-it-first-paramore.jhtml#id=1518630 Paramore You Hear It First]</ref> *The Jonas Brothers<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wP9Crs2Tg8 Jonas Brothers You Hear It First]</ref> *Robin Thicke<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20020607151018/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/thicke_robin/ Robin Thicke You Hear It First]</ref> *Sean Paul<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20021015014346/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/paul_sean/ Sean Paul You Hear It First]</ref> *Young Jeezy<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20050726011307/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/young_jeezy/ Young Jeezy You Hear It First]</ref> *Lily Allen<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20061028221453/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/allen_lily/ Lily Allen You Hear It First]</ref> *Joss Stone<ref>MTV.com [http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/stone_joss/ Joss Stone You Hear It First] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105113130/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/stone_joss/ |date=November 5, 2011 }}</ref> *Silversun Pickups<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20070220172936/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/silversun_pickups/ Silversun Pickups You Hear It First]</ref> *Arctic Monkeys<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20060415022122/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/arctic_monkeys/ Arctic Monkeys You Hear It First]</ref> *t.A.T.u.<ref>MTV.com [https://web.archive.org/web/20020802072521/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/tatu/ T.A.T.U. You Hear It First]</ref> *Tally Hall<ref>{{Cite web|date=|title=MTV.com Tally Hall You Hear It First|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/tally_hall/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125203012/http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/tally_hall/|archive-date=November 25, 2006|website=MTV.com}}</ref> *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 {{div col end}}
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