BIllboard 100 greatest Music Video Artists of All Time
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t's been nearly four decades since our best and brightest stars first made the jump from our stereos to our televisions, changing the course of popular music in the process. In the course of that time, music videos have come to define what we love and remember about our favorite artists as much as anything short of the music itself -- creating icons, reinventing careers, sparking imaginations and inspiring untold millions of Halloween costumes worldwide.
On the verge of this Sunday's (Aug. 30) MTV Video Music Awards -- the one time a year where we're still guaranteed to celebrate one of media's most influential-but-under-recognized artforms -- Billboard wanted to take a look back at the artists who have given the most to the music video, whether through heavy rotation on MTV, millions of views on YouTube, or other mediums that predate both. Here is our list of the 100 artists who have made the music video eternal, with a YouTube playlist of videos from all the artists available at the end.
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The Beatles: Penny Lane
1967, in 0 top lists -
136 new
Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights, Version 1
1978, in 0 top lists -
169 new
Blondie: The Hardest Part
1979, in 0 top lists -
168 new
Blondie: Rapture
1981, in 0 top lists -
16 new
Duran Duran: Planet Earth
1981, in 0 top lists -
84 new
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
140 new
Bruce Springsteen: Atlantic City
1982, in 0 top lists -
15 new
Duran Duran: Rio
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
152 new
Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1983, in 0 top lists -
27 new
David Bowie: Let's Dance
1983, in 0 top lists -
68 new
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1983, in 0 top lists -
5 new
Michael Jackson: Thriller
1983, in 1 top list Check -
83 new
Talking Heads: Burning Down the House
1983, in 0 top lists -
123 new
ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin'
1983, in 0 top lists -
189 new
The Art of Noise: Close (to the Edit)
1984, in 0 top lists -
141 new
Bruce Springsteen: Dancing in the Dark
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
185 new
The Cars: Hello Again
1984, in 0 top lists -
184 new
The Cars: You Might Think
1984, in 0 top lists -
38 new
Prince and the Revolution: When Doves Cry
1984, in 0 top lists -
131 new
Queen: Hammer to Fall
1984, in 0 top lists -
128 new
Tina Turner: Private Dancer
1984, in 0 top lists -
127 new
Tina Turner: What's Love Got to Do with It
1984, in 0 top lists -
32 new
'Weird Al' Yankovic: Eat It
1984, in 0 top lists -
142 new
Bruce Springsteen: I'm on Fire
1985, in 0 top lists -
174 new
Grace Jones: Slave to the Rhythm
1985, in 0 top lists -
137 new
Kate Bush: Cloudbusting
1985, in 0 top lists -
1 new
Madonna: Material Girl
1985, in 0 top lists -
85 new
Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere
1985, in 0 top lists -
101 new
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Don't Come...
1985, in 0 top lists -
124 new
ZZ Top: Velcro Fly
1985, in 0 top lists -
175 new
Grace Jones: Love Is the Drug
1986, in 0 top lists -
4 new
Madonna: Open Your Heart
1986, in 0 top lists -
43 new
Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
108 new
R.E.M.: Fall on Me
1986, in 0 top lists -
146 new
The Replacements: Bastards of Young
1986, in 0 top lists -
134 new
Run DMC and Aerosmith: Walk This Way
1986, in 0 top lists -
119 new
The Cure: Just Like Heaven
1987, in 0 top lists -
153 new
Cyndi Lauper: What's Going On
1987, in 0 top lists -
147 new
The Replacements: The Ledge
1987, in 0 top lists -
190 new
The Art of Noise Feat. Tom Jones: Kiss
1988, in 0 top lists -
135 new
Run-D.M.C.: Run's House
1988, in 0 top lists -
9 new
Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation
1989, in 0 top lists -
2 new
Madonna: Like a Prayer
1989, in 0 top lists Check -
6 new
Michael Jackson: Leave Me Alone
1989, in 0 top lists -
62 new
N.W.A.: Express Yourself
1989, in 0 top lists -
39 new
Prince: Batdance
1989, in 0 top lists -
86 new
Public Enemy: Fight the Power
1989, in 0 top lists Check -
89 new
George Michael: Freedom! '90
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3 new
Madonna: Vogue
1990, in 0 top lists -
21 new
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
1991, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jun 19, 2021; source