Ground breaking music videos

1970’s

 

The most ground breaking song throughout the 1970’s was considered to be Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody due to it being the first ever music promo. Also, due to the many features it contained it stayed in the chars for nine weeks and sold over a million copies by January 1976.

1980’s

 

In this decade the most ground breaking song was considered ‘Thriller’ By Michael Jackson. This is because Michael Jackson was one of the first black people to feature on MTV while the channel was rising. Previously to this, the channel only showed promos by white artists/bands so this made more and more black artists/bands feature onto the channel which gained a more positive response from the audience. With this is mind, you can clearly see why this promo was the most ground breaking through this decade.

1990’s

 

In this decade the most ground breaking promo released was ‘Scream’ By Michael and Janet Jackson. It was voted one of the top 10 most expensive music video to make and is still voted that ay now. The music video cost around $7 million to make and back then was considered the most expensive video over made.

2000’s

In this decade music promos can be seen/shown on any internet device mainly from the website YouTube but still shown on many music channels now. For this reason, one of the biggest songs from this time was Madonna’s song ‘Die Another Day’. It had a production cost of $6 million and was released in October 2002. It made number three in the charts in the United Kingdom and sold over 170,000 copies.

 

Most recent song that will change future music videos

In 2009 Lady GaGa released her song 'Bad Romance' It was to be said that it was the highlight of her whole album and was included in the best of lists in serveral media outlets such as, Rolling Stones. In the United States 'Bad Romance' peaked at number two on the 'billboard top 100'. The song sold more than 5.2 million copies in June 2012 and achieved worldwide success by topping all of the charts. Due to this new artists/bands and even previous artists/bands will model themselves around Lady GaGa due to her success and aim themselves to be as big of a star as she is.