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THE MOST EXPENSIVE MUSIC VIDEO
" Scream "
Cost: $7,000,000+
Artist: Michael Jackson (featuring Janet Jackson)

Michael Jackson's videos have always been ridiculously expensive. In 1983, he spent $800,000 on " Thriller, " which would be about $1.4 million today. But remember that before " Thriller, " no one even came close to spending that kind of money, and he had to do it with limited technological capabilities. As technology improved, Jacko's videos became more expensive, spending over $1.2 million on " Black or White " in 1992, and even more on " Remember The Time. " But if he can keep an oxygen chamber, a petting zoo, the Elephant Man's bones, and an entire plastic surgery team in his mansion, it's certainly no biggie to drop another $7 mil on a video with his sister.

" Scream's " $7,000,000 price tag is more than twice as much as the next most expensive music video (Puff Daddy's " Victory " at $2.7 million), and it's easy to see why: he spent $5 million alone on 11 sets. Yet while watching the video, it all seems incredibly wasteful, not coming close to the film quality of " Thriller ", " November Rain, " or " Victory. "


Computer-generated spaceship: $65,000
Breaking guitars: $53,000
Morphing artworks: $50,000
Michael's makeup: $3,000
Janet's makeup: $8,000 a day
Choreography: $40,000
Giant video screen: $80,000
Lighting: $175,000
Cost per day: $636,000 (about 11 days)
Total cost of 11 sets: $5,000,000

(All $ are in US Dollars. US$1 = HK$7.8)