MTV Unplugged

It showcases recorded live performances of popular music artists playing acoustic or "unplugged" variations of songs.

Eric Clapton's Unplugged (1992) sold 26 million copies worldwide and became the best-selling live album of all time[citation needed].

The show received the George Foster Peabody Award and three Primetime Emmy nominations, in its original form.

[3] The MTV show titled Unplugged, drawing on this phenomenon, was created by producers Robert Small and Jim Burns.

[37] MTV's sister channel VH1 airs VH1 Storytellers, interspersing mostly acoustic performances with the artists discussing the history, meaning and memories of the songs.

[38] The fourth season of Canadian Idol featured an Unplugged night which was held at Toronto's Masonic Temple.

[39] On July 30, 2020, Code Orange performed a livestreamed acoustic set on Twitch spoofing MTV Unplugged under the title of "MUDTV Mudbanger's Ball" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[40] The band described it as "conceptually akin to classic MTV Unplugged performances, but with nightmarish digital twists and turns.

The logo for Nirvana 's MTV Unplugged in New York
An admissions ticket for the April 10, 1996 recording of Alice in Chains ' Unplugged in Brooklyn, New York
The MTV Unplugged 2.0 logo used for the show's return in the 2000s
Scorpions performing an Unplugged set in Athens , Greece