Music Video History

History of music videos;

Why music videos were created?

Music videos were first created to help visualise the song or give a visual to the song that it has been created for. In the modern day, music videos are created so  that artists can be heard on a global scale, to promote the band and give a visual representation of them and to ensure people remember the song and video. They were also created to create a reaction to the song, helping the artist become more recognizable and provokes the audience to see them live.

The first music video was released in 1929 by Bessie Smith singing a song called Saint Louis Blues.

1930 Experimentation- A man called Len Lye used a tool called kaleidoscope in front of his camera lens to create a unique effect to a music video. He first introduced this for a Royal Mail advert.

1940- Walt Disney released fantasia, which was an animation of Disney characters with music over the top of the piece.

1964- The Beatles released a defying piece of motion picture called "A Hard Days Night".

1975- Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 studio album A Night at the Opera. this was the first proper music video realised for a specific song.

TOTP 1970's- TOTP made its first appearance on live TV showing musicians performing their songs to the general pubic. If an act wasn't able to attend there spot on TOTP's, the song would be played whilst different dance groups would perform dance sequences to the song.

MTV 1980's- MTV was launched and the first video that was aired on the show was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles. this was also the first 24hr TV Show Time.

1983- Thriller was released by Michael Jackson which was a short film directed by John Landus and cost around $500,000.

1985- VH1 (Video Hits 1) was released. This was a show that was aimed at the older demographics as it was a softer music channel.

1986- Channel 4 created the 'The Chart Show', which consisted of solely music videos.

1986- Pater Gradiels song "Sledge Hammer", which used special effects and animation techniques developed by the British Studio Aardmand Animation.

1995- Janet Jackson song "Scream" cost around $7million, which was the most expensive music video to date.

1991 to 2001- Napster, a Peer to Peer file share service was introduced.

2005- YouTube was launched, which made viewing videos online quicker and easier than ever before.

2009- VEVO was launched.

Most Expensive Music Video of all time;
 

Artists	Song Title	Release  date	Production Value on release date
Michael and Janet Jackson	“Scream"	May 1995	$7,000,000
Madonna	"Die Another Day"	October 22, 2002	$6,100,000
Madonna	"Express Yourself"	May 17, 1989	$5,000,000
Madonna	"Bedtime Story"	March 10, 1995	$5,000,000
Michael Jackson (Featuring L.T.B.)	"Black or White"	November 14, 1991	$4,000,000

Most viewed Music videos on YouTube;

Video name	Up loader/ Artist	View count (15.07.16)	Upload Date
"Gangnam Style"	PSY	2,607,721,719	July 15, 2012
"See You Again"	Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth	1,877,337,668	April 6, 2015
"Uptown Funk"	Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars	1,727,545,803	November 19, 2014
"Blank Space"	Taylor Swift	1,667,197,956	November 10, 2014
"Hello"	Adele	1,632,726,237	October 22, 2015