2. Bessie Smith’s St.louis
Blues is a famous American
song, composed by W. C.
Handy. It remains a
fundamental part
of jazz musicians collection
and was also one of the first
blues songs to succeed as
a pop song.
3. Soundies were three-minute musical
films, produced in New York City,
Chicago, and Hollywood, between
1940 and 1946, often including short
dance sequences, similar to later music
videos. Panoram was
the trademark name of a
visual jukebox that played music
accompanied by a synched, filmed
image (the effect being the equivalent
of today's music videos) popular within
the United States during the 1940s. The
device consisted of a jukebox playing a
closed-loop 16mm film reel projected
onto a glass screen.
4. A hard day’s night is the third
album by the English rock
band, The Beatles. The genre
of this album was pop rock.
This was the first album to
be recorded entirely on four-
track tape, which also helped
in creating good stereo mixes
with the vocals in the centre.
5. Billie Jean is a song by the
American singer Michael
Jackson. Michael Jackson
himself wrote and composed it.
This song became a worldwide
commercial and critical success
It was one of the best-selling
singles of 1983 and is one of
the best-selling singles
worldwide. The song topped
both the US and UK charts
simultaneously.
6. The music video was inspired by Madonna's admiration of Marilyn Monroe and
mimicked the latter's performance of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from
the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.[2] It also featured actor Keith Carradine, who
played Madonna's love interest. The video was the first to showcase Madonna's acting
ability, as it combined the dance routines of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" with
the story line of a man who impresses Madonna with daisies, rather than diamonds.
7. SCREAM is still today the most
expensive music video ever made.
The video cost $7 million.
8. Allows people to watch videos
online. New artists see
popularity rise through internet.
9. "Party Rock Anthem" is a song performed by
the American hip-hop and EDM recording
duo, LMFAO, featuring British singer Lauren
Bennett and American music producer Goon
Rock. This song went to number one in
Australia, Canada, Denmark, France,
Germany, the United Kingdom and the
United States. It also reached the top five
in Finland, Italy, Norway, Poland and
Sweden. Worldwide, it was the third best-
selling digital single of 2011 with sales of
9.7 million copies. It is the third best-
selling digital song in US history. Party
Rock Anthem is currently Billboard's 5th
most successful song of all time. It is
currently the seventeenth most viewed
video on YouTube, with over 1.01 billion
views.
10. The song has been one of the
band's most successful singles,
reaching number one in many
countries including Canada
and the United Kingdom,
number two in the United
States, and top ten in 20
countries. Over 1 million
copies of this song have been
in the United Kingdom and
over 8 million copies
worldwide, becoming one of
the best-selling singles of all
time.
11. In the US, this song is ranked
as number two on
the Billboard Hot 100 and
became the band's third top
10 single from V, and eighth
consecutive top 10 hit.
"Sugar" is the 68th song in
history to score at least 20
weeks in the Top 10 of the
Hot 100.