Which Episodes and Years Are Covered in The 120 Minutes Archive?

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The 120 Minutes Archive at altmusictv.com covers 1,058 episodes of MTV's 120 Minutes and its successor Subterranean, spanning 1986 to 2013. That includes the original MTV run, the later MTV2 iterations, and Subterranean (2003–2011). For each episode, the archive aims to provide the playlist and the music videos.

Coverage at a glance

Series Network Years covered Notes
120 Minutes MTV 1986–2003 The original series
120 Minutes MTV2 through 2013 Later iterations of the show
Subterranean MTV2 2003–2011 Successor program

The archive describes itself as compiling "nearly the entire history" of the show, built from scratch by hundreds of volunteer contributors since 2003.

What you'll find for each episode

  • Playlists — the songs aired in a given episode
  • Music videos — linked alongside the playlists
  • Artist interviews and live performances — part of the original show's format, reflected in the archive's scope

Recent additions

The archive cleared a backlog of submissions and added more than 50 new episode playlists from the MTV run, covering 1987 to 2000. These are labeled New while browsing. More corrections and missing episodes have since been submitted and are queued for addition.

How to use this

If you're looking for a specific episode, the year range tells you where to start: anything from 1986–2003 belongs to the original MTV series, 2003–2011 may be Subterranean, and later entries fall under the MTV2 iterations up to 2013. Newly added playlists from 1987–2000 are marked so you can spot recent uploads.

One caveat: the archive says it holds "nearly" the entire history, and it is still processing corrections and missing episodes — so a small number of episodes may not yet be complete or present.