Monday, 10 October 2011

List of the most expensive music videos

As my music video is going to be extremely low budget, probably not actually costing anything in terms of purchasing extra equipment or paying for a venue ect, I thought it may be interesting to see just how much has been spent on some of the most popular music videos. So here is a list of the top 10:
(production cost in dollars)


  1. Micheal and Janet Jackson- Scream- $7,000,000
  2. Madonna- Die another day- $6,100,000
  3. Madonna- Bedtime story-  $5,000,000
  4. Madonna- Express your self- $5,000,000
  5. Guns 'N' Roses- Estranged- $4,000,000
  6. Puff Daddy- Victory- $2,700,000
  7. Mariah Carey- Heartbraker- $2,500,000
  8. MC Hammer- Too legit to quit- $2,500,000
  9. Busta Rhymes- Whats it gonna be?!- $2,400,000
  10. Celine dion- It's all coming back to me now- $2,300,000
I was curious to see why this video cost so much to produce.So I researched it and realised that it would of mainly been down too special effects. However then I did more research and found out just why it cost so much:
  • Taking 11 days to film it cost an average $636,000.00/day.
  • Each set averaged $450,000.00 totaling $5,000,000.00 for all 11 of them.
  • $53,000.00 worth of guitars were broken.
  • Michael Jackson's makeup cost $3,000.00.

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