History Of Music Videos 2

History of music videos

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The success of music videos was started by MTV 31 years ago. However, the first actual music video was created in 1895 at Thomas Edison’s studio. It was made for a Kinescope. This is where a viewer would look through a peep hole and watch a motion picture along with music.

 

In the 1920’s, a theatre in New York displayed the first motion picture with sound on film. This synchronised movies with their soundtracks.  

 

In the 1940’s, jukeboxes played soundies. Soundies are about three minute performances which displayed a performance of dance and music and these jukeboxes were located in bars and restaurants.

 

In the 1960’s, the Beatles used film to promote their records. Shortly after, other rock n roll bands followed and copied this idea.

 

In 1981, MTV launched the first music video which was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles. MTV soon became a huge part of promoting artists such as Madonna and Michael Jackson.

 

Michael Jackson’s song “Thriller” was seen to be one of the most influential songs for music video as it done so well. It was a 13 minute video which managed to sell a huge 9 million units.
 

In 1985, VH1 launched which displayed softer and lower music which connected with an older target audience meaning the audience for music videos overall had widened as more people could enjoy it.

 

YouTube was introduced in 2005 which allows people to now access music videos from the internet which means it is easily available. Vevo was then later introduced in 2009.
YouTube has made piracy of songs easy so Vevo was brought in so that they will make some of the money back over advertisements from that web page.