Exra Research

Music videos and the industry;

Many music videos have majority of their views from viewers who have found out about the song through some kind of publicity whether it making headline news or through social media for example the song ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus.

This song made the news for multiple explicit images of the artist Miley which could’ve been viewed by children of young ages that often such images will be blocked from viewing. I have placed an example of the kind of images in the song below however this image has been edited by myself.

 

 

 

The video has over 850 million views and doesn’t not have any kind of age restrictions on the video. Miley was heavily criticised after the video and she made many negative headlines which most likely worked in her favour in a way as the more publicity the song gets the more views the song will receive and the more downloads it will get.