1900- Thomas Alva Edison invented the gramophone
1923- John Logie Baird invented television. This allowed for the mass movement of music videos entertaining millions around the world to begin.
1927- 'The Jazz Singer' was the first half silent movie was created
1940-Disney created arguably the first music video 'Fantasia'
1963- The first episode of 'Ready Steady Go!' was first aired. This was significant because it first introduced bands to a large target audience which created major profits for the bands that featured on this programme.
1964- 'Top of the pops' was first aired, which was another very popular television programme that had bands perform on stage. Once a target audience viewed a band play a song, they became increasingly popular and sales would rise.
1981- MTV was invented, which became a very popular music channel playing upcoming and famous.
1981- 'Kerrang' was first shown on television. This allowed the channel to show a few select genres and the bands within them and their music videos to the target audience that desired to see that particular genre videos.
1989- Tim Berners Lee created the world wide web, which is the beginning of the mass cultural movement to streaming music videos online.
2005- Youtube was invented. This was incredibly significant as it allowed thousands of artists to upload their music videos to the internet which gained millions of views. Some artists even gain billions of views. which enables both the company youtube and the artist to benefit profit wise.
2009- 'Vevo' was launched. This is a video hosting service that many artists and genres use to post their music videos.
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