I actually just looked this up as I was curious of what preceded MTV (I wondered if it was a chicken and egg problem. Did MTV have to convince bands to createmu

I actually just looked this up as I was curious of what preceded MTV (I wondered if it was a chicken and egg problem. Did MTV have to convince bands to createmusic videos?). The answer seems to be that Australia had been innovators in this space and the US was just catching up to the music video concept, so there were probably less US bands with music videos ready for the launch of MTV.