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The Little Lost Child
The Little Lost Child was a popular song of 1894 by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern which sold more than two million copies of its sheet music following its promotion as the first ever illustrated song, an early precursor to the music video.100 years before YouTube was created, the two came up with the idea of creating slides to illustrate their sentimental composition and they presented the song with appropriate illustrations, in theatre. -
Spooney Melodies
These were a short-lived series of five shorts produced by Leon Schlesinger and released through Warner Bros. The shorts were primarily live-action with limited abstract animation. each short is thought to be ca. six minutes long and features art deco style animations combined with film of the live-action performer. For its time those shorts are considered to be innovative and could be considered to be one of the earliest music videos. -
Soundies
Soundies, produced and released from 1940-1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos. -
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is considered the first music video. -
Video Killed The Radio Star
At 12:01am on August 1, 1981, history was made when MTV, the first 24-hour video music channel, was launched onto television. The first video ever played on the network was quite ironic — “Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles. -
Scream
The production cost of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson's "Scream" came to $7,000,000 (now $10,834,025) making it the most expensive music video ever made. Madonna comes second with her "Die Another Day" video costing $6,100,000 in 2002 (now $7,998,279). -
Michael Jackson's Ghosts
Micheal Jackson's short film to go with his song "Ghosts", is said to be the longest music video ever made at 39 minutes 31 seconds. -
Baby
In July 2010, the video for Justin Beiber's "Baby" became the most viewed video in YouTube history until it was surpassed by Psy's hit single "Gangnam Style" in November 2012. On 5th March, 2014, "Baby" became the second video, after "Gangnam Style", to receive 1 billion views on YouTube, and remains the second-most-viewed video on the site, with over 1.21 billion views as of 17 September 2015. Despite this, the video has many more dislikes than it has likes. -
Gangnam Style
On 24th Novemeber 2012 Gangnam style became the most watch Youtube video ever when it surpassed the music video for "Baby" by Justin Bieber. On December 21, 2012, "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views. The song's music video has since been viewed over 2.41 billion times on YouTube.
