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History of Music Video And Discover Free Music Video Resources.The music video became popular when MTV exploded onto the music scene in the early eighties - and music has never been the same since! "It turns out video now makes the radio star thanks to that fateful day back on August 1, 1981 when music ventured into the realm of television," notes a CNN news report from 1998 (CNN.com). Graduating from stark videos from the sixties and seventies that featured bands strumming away on gaudy sound studio sets, MTV music-videos incorporated story elements. But debunking the traditional role of music underscoring a film's story, film's role in the music-video was to support the music - a crucial difference between music-videos and other forms of film. New and exciting ways to film a song's story or essence quickly developed so that music stars would stand out. A video's originality could lead directly to the popularity of a song, but the song always took precedence. Music Video History:The history of the modern music video has its roots in the early 1960s with The Beatles first major motion picture, 'A Hard Day's Night'. This 1964 Beatles movie included musical segments that resemble today's music videos. That same year, the band began filming short promotional films for their songs which were then aired on television variety shows. By the time the band stopped touring in 1966, they used the promotional films to tour for them. Soon it was common place for artists to do this, and bands like The Byrds and The Beach Boys were also filming promotional films. The first music videos of the modern era were produced by ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith who started making short musical films for 'Saturday Night Live' in 1979. In 1981, he released 'Elephant Parts', the first video album and first winner of a Grammy for music video. A further experiment on NBC television called 'Television Parts' was not successful, due to network meddling (notably an intrusive laugh track and corny gags). In the information technology era, they are now just as popular as songs themselves, being sold in collections on video tape and DVD. Growing sales of videos on the DVD format led to a 33% rise for music-videos worldwide in 2002, according to the first worldwide music-video statistics report released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Total music-video shipments worldwide surged from 57 million units in 2001 to 75.9 million in 2002, up 33%. Furthermore, free music video sites are very popular for online music fans.
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