Record Breaking Music Video's

These music videos have been recognised for their record breaking status. You can watch them all on YouTube (although some have age requirements to watch!)

The most expensive music video to create cost $7,000,000 to make! It was for Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson’s video Scream released in 1995. The second most expensive video to make was made by Madonna for her James Bond track, Die Another Day, costing $6,000,000 to make in 2002.

Also winning longest running music video is Michael Jackson with Ghost which is a sort of mini-movie which is 38 minutes and 52 seconds long. However, Thriller is the second longest running music video.

Justin Bieber’s music video for Baby is still the most popular and most viewed music video on YouTube. However, in less than a year Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull’s song On the Floor has risen to 500 million views!

Group Eytan and The Embassy broke a record for having 18 costume changes in their video Everything Changes without any editing.

Some music videos have got recognition because of the restriction put on them. These music videos were banned from MTV before the watershed due to their content! Madonna’s Like a Prayer, Justify Your Love, Erotica and What It Feels Like For A Girl were all banned from MTV. Enrique Inglesias’ video for his 2000 song Sad Eyes was banned due to it showing sexual content. In 2012, M.I.A’s song Born Free was banned due to the violence shown in the video; this video was even temporarily removed from YouTube. More recently, Rihanna’s S&M required people to be over 18 to watch it on YouTube and most of the video cut and censored to be shown.