anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that angst. - i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. - boom, there it is. platinum record. - country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. - the honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. - unskinny bop just blows me away - mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haiair bands. you ve gotot poison, r ra
- it s a tough time to grow up in, anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that angst. - i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. - boom, there it is. platinum record. - country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. - the honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. - unskinny bop just blows me away - mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haia
anand it was a all because of gararth brooks.s. the e first time i e ever sam in concecert, i was s probably 10 or r 11 years o old. and i saidid, that isis exacy what i w want to do.o. - gartrth brooks is the bigiggest-selliling artit of the decade, and the fastest-selling musical artist ever. [cheers and applause] - he s beeeen described as a croross betweenen john e and mick j jagger. he s got the l looks of a a cy and the e moves of a rockck n roll s star. - it s sounded like rockck and . guitars anand big drumums and everybybody singining alo. that s what pepeople liked about t rock showsws. - ah, hehere i come. - as the acts became, maybe, less twangy, in their waway, that realllly just expxpanded their auaudience. artists like george strait, or brooks s & dunn plentyty of acts really worked their way up and became massive. - over the last two years, country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts, with over $2 billion in sales and climbing. - as the boom and