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First music video ever aired on MTV 2 "You Better Run" Pat Benatar: 1/2 First female artist and first lead guitarist (Neil Giraldo) 3 "She Won't Dance With Me" Rod Stewart: 1/2 Bassist Phil Chen was the first non-white musician to appear on MTV [4] 4 "You Better You Bet" The Who: 1/5 5 "Little Suzi's on the Up" Ph.D. 1/3
Unofficial, fan-made music videos are typically made by synchronizing existing footage from other sources, such as television series or films, with the song. The first known fan video, or songvid, was created by Kandy Fong in 1975 using still images from Star Trek loaded into a slide carousel and played in conjunction with a song. [110]
The very first music video ever played on MTV was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," but that statement isn't entirely accurate: Before MTV even existed, music videos have helped launch ...
This article lists the most expensive music videos ever made, with costs of $500,000 or more, from those whose budgets have been disclosed. David Bowie's video for the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes" was the first music video to exceed this sum.
In 2018, it became the first video made before YouTube to reach the billion-view milestone. As of June 2022, it has been viewed nearly 1.9 billion times, more than any video of the '80s or ‘90s.
The success of these music videos helped shift MTV's focus from its original "rock 'n' roll only" format to pop and R&B and saved the channel from financial ruin. [4] [5] Michael Jackson's "Thriller" short film marked a growth in scale for music videos and has been named the most successful music video ever by the Guinness World Records. [6]
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World Superstars of Wrestling, Inc. partnered with software maker VDO and Webstar (ISP), under Scott Crompton and George Zhen, broadcasting one of the first video based websites. Shot on location in Tampa Bay, Florida, Matsuda and Brody produced six one hour episodes, dubbed the first webisodes with hosts Gordon Solie and Bruno Sammartino.