[wikipedia] JEWEL ranked 16th most expensive PV
 

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Immediately copied from the thread over at AYUNITE:

According to Wikipedia's list of the world's most expensive music videos, Ayu's new PV JEWEL has ranked 16th, with a budget of over $1,000,000. That's 16th out of 16 but it's still a really high achievement :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_music_videos

As you all already know, My Name's WOMAN PV placed 14th on the list with a budget of over $1,200,000, and Fairyland placed 6th, with a budget of over $2,000,000

In Yen, this adds to:

Jewel: Over JPY 118,134,731.46
My Name's WOMAN: Over JPY 141,749,901.42
Fairyland: Over JPY 236,265,967.14[/quote]

Woah guess Ayu loves expensive videos...

Haha, I don't know about Ayu, but avex sure doesn't mind throwing them out now and then :).

I wonder where they got that info from... did they speak about the budget on tv or something?

As for the list, I believe there's a tone of videos around the world that costed around 2 million USD or at least above 1 million, just that the info isn't always posted and people don't always bother filling up that list.

Yeah, that is what makes it so very unreliable. The cost for the JEWEL PV seems appropriate though, considering 100,000,000 of it was for the jewelry alone.

It's most likely not even nearly the 16th most expensive PV ever.

Well, who knows... I actually think it might cost 100 million yen, especially if all the jewelry (most likely) was on request. It DOES look VERY expensive. The video is extremely beautiful and very, very adorable. I can honestly say that "JEWEL" is the VERY BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR 2006. Believe me, I know what I say, I've seen over 100 videos this year.

yeah... i know Spice Girl's SPICE UP YOUR LIFE PV costs $1,000,000+ too.. i think MTV did a chart like these years before... oh well.

wowi thats pretty cool. I love the glamorous PV's too!

yikes! that's expensive!

but i guess it costs money to get good animations like all the flowers in the pv

yikes! that's expensive!

but i guess it costs money to get good animations like all the flowers in the pv

The only thing that is confirmed is that the jewelry for the PV cost 100,000,000 yen, if the numbers here are correct that leaves 18,134,731 yen for cast salary and other things. The animations might not have been cheap as such, but nothing compared to the cost of the stones.

Wataru Takeishi sure has some expensive taste

Wataru Takeishi sure has some expensive taste

Wataru Takeishi sure has some expensive taste

yup! fairyland, MNW n jewel r all under him rite... wad about the pvs he did for other artist? r they also this expensive?

She should aim to make the most expensive music video ever, preferably for a single on her next album.

^ Didn't she already do that for fairyland?

avex really doesn't mind ayu spending tons when her sales is dropping O_O if so, why do we get such cheap pv like Startin', Born To Be... and Beautiful Fighters?

Michael & Janet Jackson has the most expensive with "Scream" at $7,000,000

^ Cheap PVs doesn't equal bad. Take HEAVEN for example, that's got to be the cheapest (money terms) PV ever, but it's just so moving and powerful. Sometimes, simplicity is best :)

Besides, I enjoyed Startin' and BF PVs.

Anyway, I guess the money went more to the crafting of the jewels than to the pieces themselves. Must have taken lotsa money to assemble such intricate jewellery (the flying butterfly, the unfurling flowers, the tulips dropping jewels)

i totally do not believe this information. i think that list is pretty bogus...

:shrug