The 80's pop scene benefited greatly from the advent of music video and a cable television station dedicated to showing them on a regular basis. When the Music Television channel (MTV) first went on the air, bands and solo artists who already had promotional videos got an unexpected career boost. The element of 80's music became the visual aspects of the song's promotional videos. Many of the genre's hits can be identified just as easily by the images in their videos as they can by the artists or song lyrics.
