Uproxx

The ‘Most-Played Song On MTV’ Earns The Guy Who Wrote It So Much Money Every Year

A cover of “Uncontrollable Urge” is the theme song for the Rob Dyrdek-hosted MTV series, which is pretty much all MTV plays. Tomorrow alone, the channel will air 20 episodes of Ridiculousness, which ...
Yahoo

Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh Makes $1M per Year Thanks to MTV’s ‘Ridiculousness’ Theme

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Devo opened their 1978 album Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! with “Uncontrollable Urge”, few listeners could have foreseen ...
NBC New York

74-year-old musician wrote a song 50 years ago—now it makes him $1 million a year: It's ‘easily the most played song on MTV'

Despite a prolific career composing soundtracks for hit movies and TV shows, one of Mark Mothersbaugh's most lucrative pieces of music is a song he wrote nearly 50 years ago. The composer, who has ...
Stereogum

Mark Mothersbaugh Makes $1M Per Year From MTV’s Ridiculousness Theme

I got into Devo the way everyone should: Hearing "Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)" at a dive bar and feeling it in my bones. However, the legendary new wave band also have a banger called ...