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Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. They featured many bands, vocalists and dancers.
Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful. The discs would be played on a turntable physically coupled to the projector motor while the film was being projected. -
Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan was one of the first black recording artists to achieve significant crossover in popularity with the mainstream American audience.
In the mid 1940s, musician Louis Jordan made short films for his songs, some of which were spliced together into a feature film like Lookout Sister. -
Fantasia
Walt Disney released Fantasia, an animated short based famous classical music pieces. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. -
I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos
This song was published on The Flamingos' debut album Flamingo Serenade. Their version features a prominent reverb effect, creating a dreamy ambience. They created a winter setting and had to wear coats during a live recording in summer. -
The Beatles
In 1964, the Beatles starred in their first feature film 'A Hard Day's Night', directed by Richard Lester. It was shot in black-and-white and was presented as a mock documentary, it contained comedic and dialogue sequences with musical tones. The film was a financial and critical success, achieving a Box office of $12,299,668. -
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops (TOTP) was a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and at first broadcasted weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. -
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' started a whole new era for music videos to be used as promos. Using a promotion video was consider ground-breaking and "practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air." -
Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie
The music video for "Ashes to Ashes" was one of the most iconic of the 1980s. David Bowie achieved his first number one hit with an eye-catching promo of ''Ashes to Ashes''. it was at the time the most expensive music video ever made and remains one of the most expensive of all time. -
MTV
The MTV channel launched on 1st August 1981. Its original purpose was to play music videos guided by television personalities. MTV aimed to play the most up to date and modern music with their videos in the hope that they would attract a young, influential audience. MTV is still as successful today as it was when it launched, even though there are increasing numbers of competitors in the music video channel industry. -
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson's Thriller was a 13 minute video and was MTV's first world premiere video. After Thrillers release, promos also began to have storylines and plots.
Thriller took videos to a whole new level of promotion in 1984. -
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A
The video first aired in May 1989, directed by Rupert Wainwright and was made featuring Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, Krazy Dee, and DJ Yella. The video shows the group walking and posing throughout various parts of the city of Compton. In video shares an insight into the lifestyle of people living in Compton. -
Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, it takes the form of a fictional 3D video game from the third-person point of view of each of the band members. The video itself contains many homages to video games of its time. The music video is similar to some games that were mostly sandbox/open world-based gameplay. The music video for "Californication" is the group's most watched on YouTube, with over 200 million views. -
The Real Slim Shady - Eminem
The music video features Eminem performing the song in a psychiatric ward, a local Detroit neighborhood nearside a park, a fast-food joint, the Grammy Awards, and even in a factory where multiple clones of the rapper are produced.
"The Real Slim Shady" was Eminem's first song to reach number one in the United Kingdom -
The Pirate Bay
This is a well known illegal way to download and listen to music, as well as games and movies. Even though its legal struggles, people are still to access it and it remains the top pirating site. People may upload different content, featuring games, films and music, for other people to listen to for free, yet 'Audio' only makes up 9% of its total uploads. -
YouTube
A video sharing website for users to upload, comment, view and subscribe to other users. In 2012 a mobile site and app was created to keep up with popular demand. It is one of the most used sites coming third (3,637,788 users each day) in the most used websites under Google and Facebook. The most viewed music video from the website is Gangnam style, it was the first and only video to surpass 1 billion views. It now currently has 2,592,745,215 views. -
Bad Blood - Taylor Swift
The accompanying music video was directed by Joseph Kahn and achieved Video of the Year and Best Collaboration at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards and won Best Music Video at the 58th Grammy Awards.
