1929- The first example of a music video is shown in a cinema. Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a short film called St. Louis Blues featuring a performance of a hit song. During this time many musicians appeared in short films including music.
1940 - Disney released Fanatasia which featured many animated videos that were all featured around different pieces of classical music. Fanatasia is basically a whole film of music videos. Below is one of the pieces that featured in the original fantasia.
1970's - British TV show Top of the Pops began playing music videos in the late 70's however the BBC placed a limit on the outsourced music videos that could be shown. A good music video could increase the songs sales as listeners would want to hear the song again after seeing it on TV.
1981- MTV was launched and this was the beginning of music being played around the world on a daily basis. The first song to be played on MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggle. The Video was aired 12:01 am on August 1st.
1983 - Thriller by Michael Jackson was relaeased along with the most influential and iconic music videos of all time. The video was nearly 14 minutes long and cost around $800,000. This music video is one of the most well know music videos in existence. Thriller set higher standards for music videos and the music industry.
1995- Mark Romanek diffracted the most expensive music video ever. He directed Michael Jackson's Scream music video with a budget of $7 million. The video is set on board a computer generated white spaceship, which used up a large amount of the budget, this was followed by extensive special effects and lighting which contributed to using up a lot of the budget. It was one of the first music videos for Michael Jackson where he hadn't been involved in creating the concept for the music video. The music video also includes his sister Janet Jackson.
2005- On February 14th Youtube was launched. This became a completely new way in which to watch music videos as videos could now be watched when ever they wanted to be meaning that more music videos where being created meaning that to be a successful music video then it would have to stand out against the many different music videos now being produced.
2009 - The launch of Vevo. Vevo is a multinational video hosting sight, that is used on Youtube to show music videos make the watching of music videos easier. Vevo also has its own website where music videos can be viewed for free.
2013 - One Direction break Vevo's Most Views in 24 Hours. One Direction Fans broke vevo and Youtube that day by viewing the video over 10.9 million imps within 24 hours. However this record was then broken in 2015 by Taylor Swift's Bad Blood Music Video.
Below are both theses Music videos are below
Best Song Ever currently has - 377,970,395 views
Bad Blood currently has - 546,753,739 views
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