Music videos can both heal or hinder, blasting a great song into even higher critical acclaim, or bringing a mediocre track plummeting back down to new lows. Whichever way you look at it, the music business has spent an insane amount of money across the years trying to turn many tracks into unstoppable chart hits. Using ridiculous locations, hilariously bonkers pyrotechnics and some of the strangest video concepts we’ve ever seen, here are the 10 most expensive music videos of all time.
John Landis also directed Jackson’s thriller, so fans were in for a treat once again with this one. Costing over $4 million, the video transitions from the suburbs of America to the beautiful planes of Africa and is epic on a huge scale. It then ends with a sea of famous faces morphing into one another with special effects that nobody had seen at the time.
