When Devo opened their 1978 album Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! with “Uncontrollable Urge”, few listeners could have foreseen how much money it would generate decades down the line – especially not its writer. 
	Fans of Devo would note that “Uncontrollable Urge” was never released as a single, despite its status as one of their most played songs. Nor was it their most successful track on the charts – that honor belongs to 1980’s “Whip It”, …

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DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh has revealed that he makes $1million per year from the Ridiculousness theme song alone. 
READ MORE: DEVO: “I was hoping we were going to be like an art movement” The vocalist, composer and co-founder of the iconic band has made a name for himself outside of the line-up, going on to develop music for TV series and scores for movies. Now, in a new interview he has revealed that it is the 20-second-long theme tune for Ridic…

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Here's how DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh makes $1million per year from 'Ridiculousness' theme song

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for AFI Devo’s biggest hit single may be the 1980 track “Whip It,” but it turns out it isn’t the group’s biggest moneymaker. According to Rolling Stone, that distinction goes to the tune “Uncontrollable Urge,” from their debut album, Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, because a cover of the track is used as the theme song to the MTV series Rob Dyrdek’s Ridiculousness. The show is aired on the network so often that M…

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Getty Image Devo‘s biggest hit by far is “Whip It.” The track, from 1980’s Freedom Of Choice, is the influential new wave group’s only top-20 hit, and it’s appeared in everything from The Simpsons to Stranger Things to So You Think You Can Dance. But over the past decade, it hasn’t been Devo’s most profitable song. That distinction belongs to “Uncontrollable Urge,” which was never released as a single, and it “only” has 30 million streams on Spo…

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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 “Uncontrollable Urge” that was covered by reality TV star Rob Dyrdek and used as the theme song for MTV’s Ridiculousness, which has led to Devo racking in about a million annually from that only, as per Rolling Stone.

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