Music Industry Timeline

By twinklesana

  • • First UK BBC radio broadcast

  • Elvis Presley’s first single

  • First mobile phone

  • The first singles charts

  • the Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan TV show

  • BBC Radio One launched

  • • Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody first music promo video

    24 August 1975

  • • MTV opens with its first video: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by Buggles

  • BBC TV first broadcast

  • First ipod

  • The Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen banned by BBC

  • • Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” is the first UK number one based on download sales alone.

  • The UK charts include download sales

  • • The Sony Walkman personal music player, multi-track recorder, Digital tape all launched this year, in the same year of the first hip hop record release

  • first CD

  • iTunes becomes top US music retailer

  • Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody first music promo video

  • Online music retail

  • Napster launches as first Peer to Peer file sharing website- in the same year

  • • Cloud technology launches, allowing users to store their music online