One of the first music videos made public, and by far one of the most popular music videos to date is Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. This video came about in 1975 when Queen was on tour and couldn't make it the the live MTV show, so they submitted the music video as to not miss their slot on the show. This became a massive hit at the time as videos purely dedicated to music was a rarity, and launched both the song and Queen into even more popularity than they previously had.
Another music video that is considered the 'first' is Bessie Smith's song in "St Louis Blues" in 1929. While this is the first example of a person filming themselves singing professionally, whether or not it counts as a music video is not clear. This is because this song is actually part of a short film, so it wasn't created specifically as a music video.
Music gained massive popularity due to television channels such as MTV, whereby the audience could listen to constant music and watch the music videos. This became a popular channel among young people, as the channel had young people as their target audience. After 1st February 2011 MTV removed all music from their channel and moved it to another channel, MTV music in order to turn MTV to a more reality television based channel.
Throughout the history of Music Videos it is clear that much more time, energy and money are dedicated to videos today compared to the music videos from the past. Currently the most expensive music video in terms of budget is "Scream" by Michael Jackson ft. Janet Jackson at $7,000,000. Compared to older music videos this is a staggering amount of money to be spent on the production of a 4 minute music video.
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