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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
In 1980, the music video to David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" became the most expensive ever made, having a production cost of $582,000 (equivalent to $2.15 million in 2023), the first music video to have a production cost of over $500,000. [46]
The accompanying music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy. It was the first music video shown on MTV in the US, airing at 12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the UK on 1 March 2010. The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1's "100 Greatest ...
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.
Mariah Carey and JAY-Z threw absolutely everything at the wall—and this video, directed by Brett Ratner, was one of the most expensive music video productions of its time with a $2.5 million budget.
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 ...
"One" was the first Metallica song for which a music video was created. The music video, directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon , debuted on MTV on January 20, 1989. The video, shot in Long Beach, California on December 7, 1988, is almost entirely in black and white , and features the band performing the song in a warehouse.