Talk:List of most expensive music videos

message: The video director Ben Mor via Instagram confirmed that the video NO had cost $ 6 million dollars, not even close.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1715064/britney-spears-work-bitch-director-ben-mor-interview.jhtml
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a520934/britney-spears-work-bitch-director-ben-mor-lashes-out-at-copying-claims.html
The video would have cost $1.2 million.
--Memarna (talk) 14:50, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work Bitch FAKE cost 

message: It's one of the most expensive msuic video ever, isn't?--181.164.153.53 (talk) 21:00, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lady Gaga's G.U.Y. 

message: This list is wildly incomplete and out of date. While I don't have sources to cite, it's highly likely that recent videos like Taylor Swift's CGI-heavy Bad Blood, or various Katy Perry videos should be on this list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.201.63.186 (talk) 20:58, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The List is Wildly Incomplete and Out of Date 

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message: What about Ghosts  (mentioned in the prose) and Captain EO?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.178.205.194 (talk) 00:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: These seem more like short films, and not videos for a particular song. Trivialist (talk) 11:09, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Captain EO, Budget $23.7 million

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message: over $7 million spent on this music video puts it at number 1 above Scream https://russia.postsen.com/music/164690/Dimash-released-the-most-expensive-video-clip-in-history.html Vinceagashi (talk) 23:41, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Story of One Sky - Dimash 

message: *"What Goes Around / Comes Around” was produced with Samuel Bayer at an estimated cost of more than $1 million | pag 42, Justin Timberlake: A Biography (Kimberly Dillon Summers)
*In the case of Men in Black, star Will Smith's original video, "Men in Black"-produced independently from the film (with all original content) at a cost of about $1 million- | pag 170, Making Money, Making Music: History and Core Concepts (David Bruenger)
*Bongos $2 million | Variety (2023)
* Michael Jackson Thriller cost 1.2 million | Times-Union (1984)
* Big Pimpin' by Jay-Z, $1 million | Music Business Handbook and Career Guide (2015) + Hip Hop DX
--Apoxyomenus (talk) 23:22, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  TRACKING 

message: * [...] But as a practical matter for most artists , video royalties never approached half of the $ 30,000 to $ 100,000 production costs for the typical single - song music video | The Recording Industry (2004) pag 152
* [...] expensive music videos may , in some cases , be more effectively spent on promoting the artist's career through other | Counseling Clients in the Entertainment Industry (2002) pag 47
* Music clip budgets steadily increased throughout the 1980s, leveling off in the early 1990s. According to various trade magazine reports, the average budget for videos rose from $15,000 in 1981, to $40,000-$50,000 in 1984, and $50,000-$60,000 in 1988, remaining at $60,000-$80,000 in the 1990s. The average cost of video clips for producers varies according to their degree of stature in the industry. Large, established production companies command the highest budgets, in the $100,000 range, whereas smaller companies generally receive budgets of $60,000 or less. [...] Major stars like Madonna and Michael Jackson are usually featured in videos costing over $100,000. These artists often pay for their own videos to retain ownership rights to the production, entitling the musician to royalties derived from clip sales in the home-video market. | Monopoly Television: Mtv's Quest To Control The Music (2018) pag 164
--Apoxyomenus (talk) 14:51, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
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