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Part 2. Billie Jean was #1 on Billboard in 1983. MTV still refused to play the music video because Michael Jackson was Black. The phone call that reversed that decision saved MTV from being shut down.
MTV had launched in 1981. It was a music TV channel that mostly played white rock artists. In the early 80s, getting your video on MTV was the difference between a hit and a flop. Their playlist had almost no Black artists on it. Earlier that year, David Bowie had appeared on MTV to promote his new album. He asked the VJ on live air why there were so few Black artists on the network. The VJ told him, on camera, that towns in the Midwest "would be scared to death by Prince." That was MTV's actual position.
Billie Jean came out in January 1983. It exploded on the radio. By March 5, the song had hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, entirely on radio play and record sales. MTV still wouldn't put the video in rotation.
Walter Yetnikoff, the boss of CBS Records (Michael's record label), picked up the phone. Yetnikoff's exact words, as he later recalled them: "I'm pulling everything we have off the air, all our product. I'm not going to give you any more videos. And I'm going to go public and tell them about the fact you don't want to play music by a black guy."
Within days, on March 10, 1983, MTV aired the Billie Jean video for the first time. By the end of that month, it became the first video by a Black artist ever put into heavy rotation on the channel. Three weeks after Billie Jean's debut, MTV aired the Beat It video. In December, they aired Thriller.
MTV had been losing money badly. The network's parent company had been ready to shut MTV down completely. Then Michael's three Thriller videos played through 1983. In the first quarter of 1984, MTV posted its first profit ever. The Black artist they had refused to play is the one who saved them.
That same song is sitting at #1 on Spotify right now, 43 years later.
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.@iamcardib and @stefondiggs are all smiles at his Mother’s Day event the Diggs Deep Foundation is hosting.
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