The History of Music Video

The first signs of a music video were in 1941 where the invention known as the Panoram Soundie is introduced to the public. This device enables you to watch short video clips along with some music. The next signs of music video progression was in 1956 where films such as "Rock Around The Clock" and "Shake" began to integrate musical performances into its story. A few years later in 1962 British TV invents a new form of music television. Later in 1970, the record industry discovers that producing short promos, inspired by music TV shows, could replace the live performances on the TV Stage. The groundbreaking video called "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen marked the beginning of the music video era and was one of the first videos to use advanced video effects. In 1981 MTV launched, a 24 hour music television channel, this quickly became very popular and a cultural icon. In 2981 Micheal Nesmith wins the first ever music video Grammy for his video called "Elephant Parts". The first music video to get refused by MTV is Laura Branigans video called "Self Control". This rejection was due to how the video contained objectionable material. Micheal jackson released his short film/music video called "Thriller" in 1984, this was the video to change the concept of music videos forever. It was released on VHS and is still the best selling VHS to this day. The very first video to use a combination of live action and animation surfaced in 1985 and was called "Take On Me" by Aha. This very popular video won several awards and marked a great decade to come. In 2005, YouTube came about and was a very easy platform to use which quickly became popular. This platform began to be used by a large variety of artists and to this day is the most popular video viewing website. Shortly after this, iTunes is created and allows people to download music videos and quickly rises to 1 million downloads after 20 days. In 2010, Lady Gaga has the first music video to reach 1 billion views. Her song "Poker Face" reaches 375 million alone. By 2015, YouTube turns 10 years old and 300 hours of content is uploaded every minute.