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This was the first concert video to be aired on MTV, from REO Speedwagon's Live Infidelity home video release. The video was interrupted after 12 seconds due to technical difficulties. The technical difficulty moment contains only a blank black screen with a 200 Hz tone for a few seconds before going back to MTV's studio. 10 "Rockin' the Paradise"
MTV ranked the song's music video at number three on its "100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made" list in 1999. [67] VH1 placed the debut of the "Teen Spirit" video at number eighteen on its 2000 list of "100 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on TV", noting that it made alternative rock "a commercial and pop culture force". [ 68 ]
He said it was the "mini-movie that revolutionized music videos" and "cemented Jackson's status as one of the most ambitious, innovative pop stars of all time". [21] The filmmaker Spike Jonze described "Thriller" as a touchpoint for his work. [10] Michael Jackson's Thriller was named the greatest video by MTV in 1999 [22] and by VH1 [23] and ...
In 1999, MTV ranked the video itself at #20 for The 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made [6] and VH1 ranked the song at #7 on their list of the 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the 90s. [7] In 2021, Cleveland.com ranked the song as number 110 of the best 200 rap songs, calling it "one of the great miracles of Nineties hip hop." [8]
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]
A total of 100 hours were spent shooting the music video, with each second of video consisting of 25 unique poses from Gabriel. [30] A major hit on music television, "Sledgehammer" won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987, [4] the most awards a single video has won. [5] It ranked at number four on MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999).
[21] MTV named "Hungry Like the Wolf" the 15th most-played video of the network, [26] and was 11th on the century-end MTV "100 Greatest Videos Ever Made." [27] It won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 26th Grammy Awards in February 1984, making it the first video to ever win that award. [28]
In 2003, MTV named her "The Greatest Music Video Star Ever", saying "Madonna's innovation, creativity and contribution to the music video art form is what won her the award." [7] In 2020, Billboard ranked her at the top of their list "100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time". [8] Madonna's first video, "Everybody" (1982), was a low-budget ...