• Fantasia – a musical composition with its roots in the art of improvisation. Typically for keyboard instruments which alternate between rapid passagework and slower more melodic passages.
• Panoram – was the trademark name of a visual jukebox that played music accompanied by a synched, filmed image the effect being the equivalent of today's music videos popular within the United States during the 1940s. The device consisted of a jukebox playing a closed-loop 16mm film reel projected onto a glass screen.
• Soundie – was the three minute films played in the panoram The Soundies were printed backwards (mirror image) so that they would appear in a correct orientation when played in a Panoram machine. A Panoram was the size of a refrigerator and employed a series of mirrors to reflect the image from a projector onto a 27-inch, rear-projection, etched-glass screen in a tight, enclosed cabinet. The popular machines were first produced in 1939 by the Mills Novelty Company of Chicago, Illinois and found their way into countless soda shops, taverns, bus and train stations and other public places across the nation. With the beginning of World War II, production of the Soundies and Panoram machines was drastically reduced due to a wartime raw material shortage and competition from the television and the Mills Panoram's 1940 success quickly faded.
• Scopitone – is a type of jukebox that plays 16mm films with a magnetic soundtrack it was made in the 1960’s and it was the pinnacle of music videos it was made in France then spread to west Germany then to England then to USA where 500 were said to be installed. Well known acts in the 1960’s were played on the scopitone making it a favourite. However by the end of the 1960’s the popularity of the scopitone had faded the last scopitone film was made in 1978 again this was due to the rise of television.
• Elvis Presley – in 1968, after making movies in Hollywood and having been away from the stage for seven years, he returned to live performances in a television special which led to a string of successful tours across the U.S., notably in Las Vegas, for the remainder of his career. In 1973, Presley staged the first global live concert via satellite Aloha from Hawaii, reaching at least one billion viewers live and an additional 500 million on delay. It remains the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history
• Top Of The Pops – a British music chart television programme made by the BBC broadcasted weekly, Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart. Additionally, every year there was a special edition of the programme on Christmas Day featuring some of the best-selling singles of the year. The decline of TOTP happened because the singles was they went for a new era a new theme a new look a whole new makeover playing new and up and coming artist ahead of any chart success this was met with negativity by the public and the viewings had dropped this had lost TOTP’s prime time spot on the BBC the lack of viewers which prompted the move which was a early indication the show was on a slide and was likely to be a casualty eventually it did happen when the show started to air after radio 1’s top 40 chart and this made TOTPs seem out dated and old this was the end.
• MTV – is an American cable television network based in New York City and launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs. Today, MTV still plays a limited selection of music videos, but the channel primarily broadcasts a variety of popular culture and reality television shows targeted at teenagers and younger viewers. Despite targeted efforts to play certain types of music videos in limited rotation, MTV greatly reduced its overall rotation of music videos throughout the first decade of the 2000s. While music videos were featured on MTV up to eight hours per day in 2000, the year 2008 saw an average of just three hours of music videos per day on MTV. The rise of the Internet as a convenient outlet for the promotion and viewing of music videos signalled this reduction MTV was a driving force that catapulted music videos to a mainstream audience, turning music videos into an art form as well as a marketing machine that became beneficial to artists.
• YouTube – is an internet site that users can upload and share videos also stream them. It is very popular described as the fourth most visited site in the whole internet. Users can stream official videos of songs in the charts or not in the charts due to the agreement with PRS for Music a organisation that protects songwriters and agrees the amount of money they receive. There have been a number of complaints that user of YouTube can download videos and store them on hard-drives which is why this organization banned YouTube to be able to stream official videos of artists songs until a fee was agreed.
• IPods – are a brand by apple that are capable of playing music videos on their screen stored by an internal hard-drive/flash memory. Also the ease of user’s transferring videos from the internet on to the hard-drives or flash memories which is illegal has revolutionalised the industry also the fact that it is portable and can be viewed on the go anywhere at any time.