History Of Music Videos

By StephW

  • First Music Video

    First Music Video
    The first modern music video is often regarded to be Queen's 'Bohemiam Rhapsody' there is a lot of contraversy over which music video is actually the first. This started off the craze of music videos.
    Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs this video is the one that it became known for starting the MTV age.

  • First Music Video Aired On MTV

    First Music Video Aired On MTV
    The first music video to be aired was Vidoe Killed the Radio Stsr on MTV this started of the streak of MTV exposing new artists and the increase in popularity of music vidoes.

  • First Black Artist Aired on MTV

    First Black Artist Aired on MTV
    Michael Jackson 'Billie Jean' was the first black artist to have there music video shown on MTV this set off the popularity streak of black artists becoming more well known in the music industry.

  • Hungry Like The Wolf

    Hungry Like The Wolf
    Duran Durans Hungry Like The Wolf is one of the top 10 music videos of the 1980's it hit number 3 in the billboard top 100. The music video won the first Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1984.

  • Thriller

    Thriller
    Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 13-minute music video released in 1983. It was MTV's first world premiere video and was voted as the most influential pop music video of all time,Thriller is most well known for its merging of filmmaking and music.

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit

    Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Smells Like Teen Spirit is the lead single from Nirvana's album, Nevermind which was released on DGC Records.The suprising take off of the song is often marked as the event where alternative rock entered the mainstream. It is also the bands most well known song.

  • November Rain

    November Rain
    Guns N' Roses 'November Rain' was released as a single in June 1992 and is one of Guns N' Roses' longest songs.The song peaked at number 3 on the american billboard hot 100 chart making it the longest song in history to enter the top ten of that chart.

  • I Write Sins Not Tragedies

    I Write Sins Not Tragedies
    The song by Panic At The Disco was released in 2006. The song reached number 7 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and is the bands only top song.