[2] In 1992, The New York Times noted the Buzz Bin label's power in increasing sales and creating hit songs[1] and Entertainment Weekly called it "Alternative rock's best friend.
"[2] In an article published in the journal of Music and Science, Osborn, Rossin, and Weingarten conducted a thorough content analysis of 288 Buzz Clips videos to "assess the kinds of people and cultural practices MTV promoted as buzzworthy in the 1990s.
"[3] The study found high degrees of correlation between gender ethnicity, instrumentation, and genre: BIPOC musicians' videos were often coded as hip-hop or R&B, featuring drum machines and keyboards; white musicians' videos featured more electric guitars; and women were shown playing instruments with less frequency than men.
The Buzz Bin ended in 2004 and was split in half into MTV's "Discover and Download" and VH1's "You Oughta Know".
MTV released two compilation CDs of Buzz Bin tracks, on Mammoth Records.