Genre Research 

• When and what was the first music video ever created? At 12:01am on August 1, 1981, history was made when MTV, the first 24-hour video music channel, launched onto our television sets and literally changed our lives with the birth of the music video. The first video ever played on the network was quite ironic — "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles.
• When and what was the first pop music music video ever created?After relocating to the UK in the mid-1970s, Mulcahy made successful promo films for several noted British pop acts—his early UK credits included XTC's "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) and his landmark video clip for The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" (1979), which became the first music video played on MTV
• What are the 3 most viewed pop music videos of all time in YouTube and when did they become the most viewed pop music videos?

  Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee	5.76
  Ed Sheeran - Shape of You	3.93
  Wiz Khalifa - See You Again ft. Charlie Puth [Official Video] Furious 7 Soundtrack	3.89

• What is MTV and VH1 and when were they founded?Channel created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment prior to 1984. Channel originally owned by CBS, became part of MTV Networks when CBS merged with Viacom. ... Channel was originally known as VH1 MegaHits before being discontinued in July 2005 to facilitate Logo launch.
• What is VEVO and when was it founded? Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint venture among three major record companies: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI.
• Find the 10 most influential music videos of all time and when were they released

  Michael Jackson, Thriller

  The “Thriller” video was iconic from the moment it was released in December, 1983, and remains profoundly influential and supremely audacious.

• Nine Inch Nails, Closer

  Director Mark Romanek, who's been behind some of the most memorable videos of the last 25 years (Fiona Apple's “Criminal” and Jay-Z's “99 Problems,” among others), set a high bar for haunting imagery with this 1994 video. 

• Radiohead, Karma Police

  Radiohead re-teamed with director Jonathan Glazer—who also helmed their clip for “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”—for this masterpiece of moody abstraction.

• Kanye West, Runaway

  This short-film music video, which adds a grandiose visual narrative to Ye's nearly universally-acclaimed masterpiece, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, is maybe the most ambitious demonstration of the artist's cosmic vision.

• Björk, Big Time Sensuality

  When Björk decided to work with director Stéphane Sednaoui on the video for her 1993 single, "Big Time Sensuality," there wasn't much of a budget to speak 

• White Stripes, Hardest Button to Button

  Director Michel Gondry's idea for this video, which features Jack and Meg White performing the third single from their 2003 album Elephant as their instruments continually multiply, was initially met with resistance from Mr. White.of.1997's OK 

• Missy Elliott, The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

  For each one of us, there are images that will forever be burned in our memories, and, for folks of a certain age, one of them is Missy Elliott in that
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  OK GO, Here It Goes Again

  This Chicago indie group achieved "viral YouTube fame," garnering nearly a million views in a couple days, back when both the status and the platform were only just becoming commonly known cultural phenomenon. blow-up trash-bag.
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