VH1
American cable television network
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| March 15 2025 | VH1 India and its HD feed will be discontinued, marking the end of the channel's operations. |
| March 2025 | VH1's oversight returned to MTV Entertainment Group. |
| January 7 2024 | VH1 Italy ceased its broadcast. |
| June 13 2023 | Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta premiered its eleventh season on MTV. |
| April 2023 | Announcement that Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta would move to MTV for its eleventh season. |
| 2022 | Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, featured Mariah Carey on the second episode of her podcast 'Archetypes', discussing the influential impact of the original VH1 Divas concert on her and her high school classmates. |
| December 12 2022 | Announcement made that future Drag Race seasons would move to MTV, with the Celebrity edition remaining on VH1. |
| November 9 2022 | VH1's oversight was transferred to the BET Media Group under Scott Mills, reuniting the network with BET Soul and separating it from MTV and its sibling networks. |
| August 2 2021 | VH1 Europe and VH1 Export were replaced by MTV 00s. |
| October 7 2020 | VH1 Latin America closed down and was replaced by its European counterpart. |
| July 31 2020 | VH1 MegaHits Brazil closed down. |
| March 2020 | VH1 Polska closed down and was replaced by VH1 Europe. |
| January 7 2020 | VH1 UK closed down, shifting focus from music to reality and travel shows. |
| July 7 2019 | New episodes of Wild 'n Out began premiering on VH1, continuing until September 15, 2019, as part of an expansion of the show on MTV. |
| 2017 | The VH1 Divas Live: The One and Only Aretha Franklin concert from 2001 was released on CD and DVD by MVD Visual, preserving the historic performance. |
| 2017 | As part of parent company's restructuring, RuPaul's Drag Race was moved to VH1 from Logo TV, starting with its ninth season. |
| 2016 | VH1 announced its highest ratings in six years and became the fastest-growing subscription channel, driven by successful shows like Love & Hip Hop and Mob Wives. |
| 2016 | VH1 revived the former CW reality competition series America's Next Top Model. |
| December 5 2016 | VH1 Divas concert was revived at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, with a holiday theme and achieved its highest ratings in over a decade. |
| December 5 2016 | VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night concert aired on television, marking Mariah Carey's third appearance and return to the Divas stage after 16 years. |
| December 2 2016 | VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night concert recorded at Kings Theater in Brooklyn, featuring Mariah Carey, Patti LaBelle, Teyana Taylor, Vanessa Williams, and Chaka Khan. |
| July 2016 | VH1 Italy launched, replacing MTV Music on DTT. |
| 2015 | The show was abruptly cancelled, resulting in no song of the year being named for that year. |
| 2015 | Two music videos were inducted into the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown 20/20 Club: 'Sugar' by Maroon 5 and 'Talking Body' by Tove Lo |
| 2015 | The show was renamed to 'The 20' in early 2015 and was subsequently discontinued later that same year. |
| December 28 2015 | Oversight of VH1 Soul was transferred to BET Networks, with the channel rebranding as BET Soul. |
| November 28 2015 | Drake's 'Hotline Bling' appears on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown |
| November 28 2015 | The final episode of the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown aired unexpectedly without any special announcement or fanfare, marking the end of the long-running music video countdown show. |
| November 7 2015 | 'You Oughta Know' Artist special featuring Sam Smith's 'Writing's on the Wall' |
| October 31 2015 | Halloween special featuring 'Ghostbusters' theme song by Ray Parker Jr. |
| August 29 2015 | VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown features a Video Music Awards (VMA) special |
| June 20 2015 | 20th Anniversary special aired, featuring a video representing each year starting from 1995. |
| May 2 2015 | Shannon Coffey officially began hosting, and the show was renamed 'The 20' with new segments and a new studio. |
| March 7 2015 | 'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars tops the VH1 chart |
| January 2015 | VH1 Adria closed due to financial issues and was replaced by VH1 Europe feed. |
| January 10 2015 | VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown features Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' as the top video |
| 2014 | Year-end countdown reverts back to a top 20 format. |
| 2014 | VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown inducted 4 music videos into the 20/20 Club: 'Let Her Go' by Passenger, 'Burn' by Ellie Goulding, 'Am I Wrong' by Nico & Vinz, and 'Chandelier' by Sia. |
| 2014 | VH1 continued the 'I Love' series with 'I Love the 2000s', which was thought to be a final installment after previous iterations. |
| 2014 | VH1 began shifting its programming towards shows centered on African-American personalities, similar to BET and its sister networks. |
| December 13 2014 | Jim Shearer hosted his final episode after his contract was not renewed for 2015. |
| December 6 2014 | Ed Sheeran's 'Don't' first appears at number one on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown |
| November 14 2014 | VH1 Brasil closed down. |
| November 8 2014 | Adele performs a VH1 Unplugged version of 'Chasing Pavements' during a special You Oughta Know Artist segment |
| November 1 2014 | Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora's 'Black Widow' reaches the top of the countdown |
| October 11 2014 | Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' tops the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown |
| September 27 2014 | Meghan Trainor's 'All About That Bass' first reaches number one |
| September 6 2014 | Charli XCX's 'Boom Clap' tops the countdown |
| August 2 2014 | MAGIC!'s 'Rude' first appears at number one on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown |
| June 21 2014 | Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX's 'Fancy' reaches the top of the countdown |
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