History of Music Videos

By am1rahxo

  • first music video ever

    first music video ever
    At 12:01am on August 1, 1981, history was made when MTV, the first 24-hour video music channel, launched onto our television sets and literally changed our lives with the birth of the music video. The first video ever played on the network was quite ironic — "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles. This was also the frst pop music video to be created.

  • MTV

    MTV
    MTV is an American pay television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City. The channel was launched on August 1, 1981,[2] and originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as "video jockeys" (VJs).[3] At first, MTV's main target demographic was young adults, but today it is primarily teenagers, particularly high school and college students.

  • VH1

    VH1
    VH1 is an American pay television network based in New York City owned by Viacom. It was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV, and launched on January 1, 1985, in the former space of Turner Broadcasting System's short-lived Cable Music Channel.

  • VEVO

    VEVO
    VEVO is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint venture among three major record companies: Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment and EMI. In August 2016, Warner Music Group, the third-largest record company, agreed to license premium videos from its artists onto Vevo. Vevo only hosts music videos from both Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment syndicated on YouTube and its website with Google.

  • second most viewed music video

    second most viewed music video
    Ed Sheeran released Shape of You as a digital download on 6 January 2017. On 30 January 2017, the official video was uploaded to YouTube. The video became one of the fastest videos to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. It achieved this milestone on 8 May 2017, just 97 days after its release.

  • third most viewed music video

    third most viewed music video
    See you again by Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth held YouTube’s Number One position from July 10 to August 4, 2017, and was the video that finally broke “Gangnam Style’s” hold on the top rank. It was, of course, only 25 days, until Despacito made its charge and overtook See You Again. See You Again was the best selling song in the world in 2015. It was released on April 10, 2015.

  • most viewed music video

    most viewed music video
    Despacito by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee became the first video on YouTube to achieve the milestones of three, four, and five billion views. It was published to YouTube on Jan 12, 2017. It overtook See You Again to take YouTube’s All-time Number 1 spot in August 2017.

  • top 10 music videos of all time

    1. “Thriller” by Michael Jackson - 1982
    2. “Like a Prayer” by Madonna - 1989
    3. “When Doves Cry” by Prince - 1984
    4. “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston - 1987
    5. “Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears - 1998
    6. “It’s Gonna Be Me” by ‘N Sync - 2000
    7. “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” by the Backstreet Boys - 1997
    8. “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele - 2011
    9. “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey - 1981
    10. “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson - 1982