Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) is generally regarded as the first "music video".
Although there are older groups of people performing they were not made for the same purpose.
The first music video MTV released was "video killed the radio star" by The Buggles. The next 4 music videos they aired were "You better run" by Pat Benatar, "She wont dance with me" by Rod Stewart, "You better you bet" by the who and "Little suzis on the up" by Ph.D. These were the first five music videos MTV showed.
There are many different genres of music videos such as R&B, pop, rock, punk etc that all have different types of music videos. For example R&B are more likely to be sexual videos, rock is more likely to be in a dark background with guitars etc and pop is more likely to be people dancing around. Music videos are used usually used as a form of marketing intending to promote the sale of the music recording.
The earliest music videos were filmed in the mid 1950's. However before then films by animators were accompanied by music scored labeled "Visual music". They key innovation in the development of the modern music video was video recording and editing along with the development of a number of related effects such as chroma - key. The advent of high quality colour videotape recorders and portatble video cameras.
Sources:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110826210317AA8uYYk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_music_videos_aired_on_MTV
http://www.slideshare.net/crosswaysfederation/music-video-a-brief-history
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