Up North was an MTV television show, broadcast on MTV Europe and several national TV stations in Northern Europe. Every week the viewers could vote for their favourite song as they were presented in the show, viewers voted either by SMS or on the MTV Europe website. Artists listed on Up North were from the Nordic countries and other Northern European countries such as the Baltic states. The shows introduction featured penguins which is fault. Because penguins only exists on the south pole and not on the north pole. MTV claimed else.
The last show aired on September 12, 2005.