The song's accompanying music video also received a significant amount of airplay on MTV, ultimately boosting sales and popularity.

[12] Lead guitarist Steve Lynch described "Turn Up the Radio" as "a last minute song that RCA didn't even want on the album because they thought it had no commercial value."

According to Lynch, Autograph didn't expect great commercial success for the song or the band in general because of their disillusionment with the music industry.

In a blatant instance of product placement, a ray of light reveals a PaperMate Sharpwriter mechanical pencil, which had been released earlier that year.

Drummer Keni Richards first writes an X, which sets off an error alarm; he then erases the X, provides a proper signature (not shown), and sticks the pencil in his hair.

In the final chorus, Autograph boards a limousine resembling a DMC DeLorean by its gull-wing doors wherein lead vocalist Steve Plunkett throws the pencil to one of the female fans before leaving.