A definition of a music video;

A film or videotaped rendition of a recorded song, often portrayingmusicians performing the song or including visual images interpreting the lyrics.

In the 60's music videos were made by the singer performing behind a projection with moving pictures to make the song its self more interesting to watch.

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. It was traditionally shown every Thursday evening on BBC1, before being moved to Fridays in 1996, and then moved to Sundays on BBC Two in 2005. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart. Additionally, every year there was a special edition of the programme on Christmas Day featuring some of the best-selling singles of the year.

Although the weekly show was cancelled, the Christmas special has continued. It was also survived by Top of the pops two, which began in 1994 and featured vintage performances from the Top of the Pops archives.

In the 1990s, the show's format was sold to several foreign broadcasters in the form of a franchise package, and at one point various versions of the show were shown in nearly 100 countries.

At the moment, a local version of TOTP is still regularly running in Italy on Rai 2.

In 1974 before MTV was made queen had there first video, Bohemian Rhapsody on a music channel, although thinking back now the video wasn't that great, it was four heads and effects it is still well known and talked about now.

The start of MTV music channel;

MTV, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJS.

At one time, MTV had a huge impact on the music industry and popular culture. Slogans such as “I want my MTV and MTV is here” became embedded in public thought the concept of the VJ was popularized, the idea of a dedicated video-based out for music was introduced and both artists and fans found a central locastion for music events, news, and promotion. MTV has also been referenced countless times in popular culture by musicians, other TV channels and shows, films and books. Many great musicians such as Rhianna, Jay-z and Lady Gaga help promote MTV.

The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first music video to air on the new cable television channel, which initially was available only to households in parts of New Jersey. MTV went on to revolutionize the music industry and become an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels.

Since that the first song showed on MTV and the fact that MTV made music videos popular.

There are now 32 music channels on sky.

Music video's are becoming more and more popular because more people have a television and music channels now. A music video can help the fan visualize and see there idol, the musician dancing and singing helps the fan to feel like they are actually watching the singer and are there while she/he performs. A music video can also be beneficial to the singer themselves because it helps promote their song and get it out there and known more. It helps the song become more popular, manyt fans and audiences watch the music video and then by the CD or album. MTV have now made more individual channels such as MTV bade, MTV rock and MTV hits to meet the requirements of their audience in the niche market there is today involving music channels.

The most expensive music video made was Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, "scream" that was made in 1995 and cost 7 million dollars in production costs.