1926 – ‘Talkies’ allowed many musical short films to be produced. A Vitaphone, also known as a sound film system was produced and Warner Bros started to use it for Vitaphone shorts, which featured many bands, singers, vocalists and on some occasion’s dancers. Max Fleischer was an animation artist who created a series of cartoons that had songs in the back ground. This was known as Screen Songs, which allowed the audience to sing along, this is now known as a karaoke machine.

1930 – Cartoons featured popular musicians performing their current hit songs on camera in live action segments throughout the cartoons. Walt Disney used this, in Fantasia, it featured several interpretations of classical pieces, which were built around the music. The Warner Bros cartoons were shaped around specific songs from their musical films. Live action musical shorts, who featured popular performances, were also distributed to local theatres. Such performers as Bessie Smith a blues singer and Cab Calloway along with numerous other musicians appeared in the short musical events during this time.

1940-1947 - In the mid-1940s, musician Louis Jordan made short films for his songs, some of these short films for his songs would feature in some films such as ‘Lookout Sister’. Soundies were produced and released into musical films that would most likely include a dance routine.

1950- Musicals from the early 1950s led to the creation of music videos. Tony Bennett claims to have created "...the first music video". His music video included someone filming him walking along the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London in 1956, this video was then put on top of the soundtrack of his song "Stranger in Paradise". The clip was sent to UK and US television stations and aired on shows.

Late 1950s- A visual jukebox was invented in france and short films were shown on this by French artists. When the word spread many other countries created similar machines. Italy made the Cinebox, USA made the Color-Sonic.

1965 – Promotional clips were used by such artists like the Beatles, to help with the distribution and broadcast.

1966 - Nancy Sinatra filmed a music video for her song These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. In June 1968, Elvis Presley recorded music videos again, in recording studios, in order to promote their new albums, making videos where famous stars If I Can Dream and Trouble/Guitar Man.

1974 – The Australian TV was created to show the significance in popularizing the music video genre in countries.

1970s – Top Of The Pops. BBC placed strict limits on the number of music videos and the music videos that were played on Top Of The Pops.

1981 – USA MTV channel was launched. The first video they launched was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’. This was the beginning of a 24 hour daily music channel.

1992 – MTV started listing directors with the artist and song credits. The directors that were first listed were people like; Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and many more.

1997- iFlim hosted short videos, including music videos. This enabled users to share video files, for example music videos.

2000 – MTV and many other channels stop showing music videos and started showing reality TV shoes which became more popular with MTVs audience. Therefore MTV realised that showing reality to the public was more entertaining than music videos.