Researching into Music videos

So I start my blogging off for my exam question with the best and most popular music videos of all time. Amongst the names features Michael Jackson, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Run-DMC & Aerosmith, Madonna, Gotye, Adele, Nirvana & The Beastie Boys. All together a massive variety of different twists and styles of music. 

Here are a few links to some of the videos featured above:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA - Michael Jackson - Thriller
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE - The Beastie Boys - Sabotage 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk - Run-DMC & Aerosmith - Walk This Way
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY - Somebody That I Used To Know 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw - Adele - Rolling In The Deep 

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album & video won the Grammy award in 1985, Three MTV awards in 1984 for best choreography, viewers choice and best performance in video and in 1999 was voted number one in the best 100 videos of all time and in 2009 was selected for the Nation film registry, and was the first music video to ever be selected for this.