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The greatest, counted backwards.

The Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Music Videos, counted down from a hundred to one every single day — and number one lands at ten to ten.

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Programmed from Rolling Stone — 100 Greatest Music Videos.

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06:00–09:20	THE LONG LIST
09:20–15:20	ALL ONE HUNDRED
15:20–22:00	THE HUNDRED
22:00–00:00	THE TOP TEN
00:00–06:00	AFTER THE COUNT

In rotation — 80 of 88

Beyoncé — FormationMelina Matsoukas. Released with no warning the day before the Super Bowl, and argued about ever since.
Johnny Cash — HurtMark Romanek shot it in the closed House of Cash museum. Trent Reznor said the song stopped being his.
Madonna — VogueDavid Fincher, in black and white, three years before he made a feature.
New Order — The Perfect KissJonathan Demme filmed the band playing it live in their own rehearsal room, in one go.
Beastie Boys — SabotageSpike Jonze's fake 1970s cop show. The band did their own moustaches.
D'Angelo — Untitled (How Does It Feel?)One unbroken shot, one camera move, and a performance he spent years regretting.
Peter Gabriel — SledgehammerStop-motion a frame at a time, with Gabriel lying under glass for sixteen hours. Still the most-played video MTV ever had.
Guns N' Roses — November RainIt cost over a million dollars and the wedding scene has its own weather.
Michael Jackson — Billie JeanThe pavement lights up under him. It is also the video that forced MTV's hand.
George Michael — Freedom '90Fincher again — the supermodels lip-sync it and Michael never appears.
Beyoncé — Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)Black and white, one take, three dancers, choreography lifted straight from Bob Fosse.
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen SpiritShot in a hired gym for $33,000. Cobain hated the cut and re-edited it himself.
a-ha — Take On MeAround 3,000 rotoscoped drawings over sixteen weeks.
The White Stripes — Fell in Love with a GirlMichel Gondry built the whole thing out of Lego, a frame at a time.
Missy Elliott — The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)Hype Williams shot her in an inflated bin bag through a fisheye lens, and video changed.
Duran Duran — Hungry Like the WolfShot in Sri Lanka on 35mm — the reason every band spent the rest of the decade filming abroad.
Prince — Kiss
Radiohead — Paranoid AndroidMagnus Carlsson's animation, made from a cartoon he was already drawing about a boy called Robin.
DJ Shadow — Nobody SpeakA diplomatic summit that turns into a bar fight, in slow motion, in suits.
Fatboy Slim — Weapon of ChoiceChristopher Walken dances alone through an empty hotel, and then flies.
Young Thug — Wyclef JeanThe police shut the shoot down, so the director narrates the video he could not make.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — MapsKaren O is crying for real. The band she was waiting for turned up two hours late.
U2 — OneAnton Corbijn's version, with the band in drag, is the one that stuck.
Massive Attack — TeardropThe foetus was a puppet. It is now the House theme.
2Pac — California LoveA Mad Max desert built in a Californian quarry, directed by Hype Williams.
UNKLE — Rabbit in Your HeadlightsJonathan Glazer. A man walks into traffic for four minutes and the ending rewrites all of it.
Britney Spears — ...Baby One More TimeThe school uniform was her own idea; the label wanted something else entirely.
Madonna — Ray of LightJonas Åkerlund's time-lapse city — it won Video of the Year and invented a decade of imitations.
Drake — Hotline BlingJames Turrell's light installations, and a dance that outlived the song.
Lady Gaga — Bad RomanceNine and a half minutes, and the video that made her unavoidable.
Kanye West — Bound 2Green screen, a motorcycle and sunsets nobody could take seriously — which was the point.
ZZ Top — Gimme All Your Lovin'The car, the keys and the girls: one formula, repeated all decade, invented here.
Smashing Pumpkins — Tonight, TonightA shot-for-shot love letter to Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon, from 1902.
The Roots — What They DoA rap video that annotates every rap-video cliché on screen as it commits them.
OK Go — Here It Goes AgainFour treadmills, one take, filmed by the band in a friend's garden.
Tierra Whack — Whack WorldFifteen songs, fifteen videos, one minute each, in a single unbroken run.
Björk — It's Oh So QuietSpike Jonze turns a tyre garage into a full Hollywood musical number.
Metallica — OneTheir first video ever, cut with footage from Johnny Got His Gun — they bought the film rights outright.
Fiona Apple — CriminalMark Romanek. It caused an argument that followed her for a decade.
David Bowie — Ashes to AshesThe most expensive video ever made at the time, and it retired Major Tom.
Adele — HelloXavier Dolan shot it on IMAX cameras, which is not a thing anyone does.
Aphex Twin — Come to DaddyChris Cunningham put Richard D. James' face on a pack of children.
Aerosmith — Janie's Got a GunDavid Fincher, three years before he made a feature.
Fatboy Slim — Praise YouSpike Jonze filmed it guerrilla-style outside a cinema, playing the leader of a very bad dance troupe.
Run the Jewels — Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)A single unbroken fight between Shea Whigham and LaKeith Stanfield, and nobody wins.
Herbie Hancock — RockitGodley & Creme's robot legs. It won five VMAs at the very first ceremony.
Janet Jackson — Rhythm NationBlack and white, in a warehouse, and the choreography is still being copied.
Madonna — Material GirlA frame-perfect restaging of Marilyn Monroe's Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.
LL Cool J — Going Back to CaliRic Menello in black and white — the first rap video that looked like a film.
Backstreet Boys — I Want It That WayAn airport hangar, five white outfits, and no plot whatsoever.
Nine Inch Nails — CloserMark Romanek aged the film by hand. MTV aired it with a dozen shots blacked out.
Van Halen — JumpFilmed in a rehearsal room for almost nothing, and it is pure charm.
Kylie Minogue — Come into My WorldMichel Gondry: one take, four times, each with a duplicate of everything. The seams are invisible.
Janet Jackson — Got 'Til It's GoneMark Romanek's apartheid-era South African dance hall, with Joni Mitchell on the hook.
The Go-Go's — Our Lips Are SealedA convertible, a fountain and a band who look like they are getting away with something.
Radiohead — JustThe man on the pavement says why he lay down. Nobody involved will say what the subtitles said.
Queen — Bohemian RhapsodyShot in four hours for £4,500 so the band could skip Top of the Pops.
The Verve — Bitter Sweet SymphonyOne take up Hoxton Street, and the Rolling Stones took the entire publishing off him.
Lady Gaga — TelephoneJonas Åkerlund, nine minutes, a prison, a diner and a great many product placements.
Taylor Swift — Blank SpaceA mansion, a lot of knives, and the first time she played the version of herself the press had written.
Sonic Youth — Bull in the HeatherKathleen Hanna dances through the whole thing while the band barely move.
The Replacements — Bastards of YoungA single locked-off shot of a stereo speaker for three and a half minutes. That is the entire video.
Hole — VioletMark Seliger's beauty-pageant nightmare, and Courtney Love thrown into the crowd.
Lil Nas X — MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)He descends to hell on a stripper pole. The discourse lasted longer than the song.
Mötley Crüe — Home Sweet HomeThe power ballad backstage video — MTV had to invent a rule to stop it.
Kendrick Lamar — HUMBLE.Dave Meyers and the Little Homies. The Last Supper shot took a day to light.
Beck — LoserMade for nothing by Beck and a friend, which is exactly how it looks and why it works.
Run-D.M.C. — King of RockThey walk into a rock and roll museum and knock the exhibits over.
Weezer — Buddy HollySpike Jonze cut the band into real Happy Days footage. It shipped on the Windows 95 CD.
Twisted Sister — We're Not Gonna Take ItMark Metcalf reprises his Animal House officer and gets thrown out of a window.
HAIM — ValentinePaul Thomas Anderson filmed them playing it live, in one room, in one take.
Björk — All Is Full of LoveChris Cunningham — two robots, built and shot for real, not rendered.
Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You UpIt has since been watched more times as a prank than as a song.
Talking Heads — Once in a LifetimeDavid Byrne studied footage of preachers and people in trances, then did all of it himself.
Nicki Minaj — AnacondaHype Williams. It broke Vevo's 24-hour record on the day it landed.
Blind Melon — No RainThe bee girl. She wanders off and finds an entire field of them.
Azealia Banks — 212Black and white, one shot, one wall, and a nineteen-year-old who knows it.
Neil Young — This Note's for YouMTV banned it for naming brands, then gave it Video of the Year anyway.
Soundgarden — Blow Up the Outside WorldA tiny stage, giant props, and the band crushed by their own set.
Madonna — Justify My LoveMTV refused to air it, so Warner sold it as a single on VHS and it went platinum.

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