The Most Expensive Music Videos Ever Made, Ranked From Lowest to Highest Cost
6. Guns N’ Roses, “Estranged”
Cost: $4 million ($7.5 million with inflation) (via The Guns N’ Roses Encyclopedia)
The American rock band’s music video for their 1993 Use Your Illusion II track cost a small fortune.
Directed by Andy Morahan, the third part of a series of videos following “Don’t Cry” and “November Rain” cost an estimated $4 million, and had scenes shot at Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany.
5. Michael Jackson, “Black or White”
Cost: $4 million ($7.6 million with inflation) (via Forbes)
The 11-minute John Landis-directed music video broke records for viewership upon its premiere in 1991 (an estimated 500 million people tuned in on TV), who also directed “Thriller.”
It also featured a ton of stars – including Macaulay Culkin and Tyra Banks – and even garnered some controversy with its final few minutes, which featured the then-racy “Panther Dance,” including crotch crabbing and pants zipping, as well as some violent window smashing and car destroying.
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