Fairyland is one of the top 13 most expensive videos

[AyUmIXx]

here are the list:

1. "Scream" - Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson / Mark Romanek / $7,000,000

2. "Victory" - Puff Daddy (featuring Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes) / Marcus Nispel / $2,700,000+

3. "Heartbreaker" - Mariah Carey / Brett Ratner / $2,500,000

4. "What's It Gonna Be" - Busta Rhymes (featuring Janet Jackson) / Hype Williams & Busta Rhymes / $2,400,000+

5. "Larger Than Life" - Backstreet Boys / Joseph Kahn / $2,100,000+

6. "Bedtime Story" - Madonna / Mark Romanek / $2,000,000+

7. "Express Yourself" - Madonna / David Fincher / $2,000,000+ (w/ inflation adjusted)

8. "Fairyland" - Ayumi Hamasaki / Wataru Takeishi / $2,000,000+

9. "Miami" - Will Smith / Wayne Isham / $2,000,000

10. "She's a *****" - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot / Hype Williams / $2,000,000+

11. "Unpretty" - TLC / Paul Hunter / $1,600,000+

12. "November Rain" - Guns N' Roses / Andy Morahan / $1,500,000+

13. "Girlfriend/Boyfriend" - BLACKstreet & Janet Jackson featuring Ja Rule & Eve) / Joseph Kahn / $1,500,000+

Source: Wikipedia

[immel]

Awesome, I like tha price gap between the first and the second one.

Well, wikipedia isn't the best source for numbers like this, but it seems likely.

[alternarist]

wow. fairyland is indeed expensive. but to me, the PV seems to be average when compared to other PVs.

[immel]

^Money and quality doesn't always go hand in hand . Well, the PV is very well made and I enjoy it very much, but it's not one of her best.

[Hana<3]

I can't stand fire so I cried when the tree house burned down... xD I love the pv, but it's still a lot of money and it isn't that special either xD

[Qt Mashi]

oh i didnt know that, how about Utada's? wasnt 1 of Utada's PV more expensive than Ayu's?

[Jer Sieu]

Thanks for sharing... Wow... Fairyland is a super nice PV... The song is great too..

$2m? Wow.... I am not surprised though... Such a nice PV worth 2m..

[PSYCHEDELICOdust]

No wonder TLC's Unpretty was in fact, very pretty.

[WalkingProud]

well spent more that was! well, they saved money with "heaven" then! :p

[elepop]

"Heartbreaker" was that much? Damn.

Originally Posted by asongforXX

"Heartbreaker" was that much? Damn.

Yeah and this is why:

"Heartbreaker"
Cost: $2,500,000+
Artist: Mariah Carey

Here's a video that makes almost no sense. Mariah starts out on a movie date with B-level star Jerry O'Connell, when some hoodlums start throwing popcorn at them. To escape the trauma, Mariah runs to the bathroom, where she encounters her evil twin (portrayed by Mariah in a black wig). Good Mariah and Evil Mariah start getting all Jackie Chan on each other, when they turn into cartoons. Then the video ends.

Much like Missy Elliot's "She's a *****," we have no idea why this video turned out to be so expensive. We can only suspect that the first version stunk, so they probably did some re-shooting. We would've hated to see the first version, though.


Movie theater rental: $100,000
Mansion rental (in the movie): $40,000
Hairstyling: $13,000
Dog and its trainer: $6,000
Fight coordinator: $7,000
Animation: $80,000
Jerry O'Connell's cameo fee: $10,000

I still think Ayu could've done so much more w/ a 2 million budget. She could've gone to India and be some exotic princess and instead? She dances w/ ribbions and catches her cabin on fire!

[Eigakan]

WOW!!!

Even though fairyland PV isn't that great...

[shavoingin]

it doesn't look that expensive

[SunshineSlayer]

What's funny about that list, is I don't think ANY of those videos are that great. Just shows that a big budget does not always equal the best video. The only ones on that list that are really good are November Rain and fairyland, but even fairyland could have been better on a 2 mil. budget.

[ohsixthirty]

EDIT: i think this list is false. notice that below the list is an external link to where they got this info...

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/topte...sicvideos.html

however, if you go to that site, there is no mention of fairyland. i think an ayumi fan just came along after the fact and edited the page and then listed avex as a reference. the avex site does not state that the fairyland pv is the 8th most expensive video. sorry.

[norain]

I wouldn't know why a place like that, you just mentioned, would mention about artists not from America.

And I remember Fairyland being 2 million, wasn't there news about it?

Originally Posted by touchedstar

EDIT: i think this list is false. notice that below the list is an external link to where they got this info...

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/topte...sicvideos.html

however, if you go to that site, there is no mention of fairyland. i think an ayumi fan just came along after the fact and edited the page and then listed avex as a reference. the avex site does not state that the fairyland pv is the 8th most expensive video. sorry.

That's part of the list. Notice they don't mention Madonna on that site either and yet she's still listed.

[ohsixthirty]

i'm just saying that someone most likely went back and added fairyland in. to know for sure we'd have to see a list of the most expensive japanese videos as well. and what about videos from europe and the rest of asia? i'm not buying it.

Originally Posted by spacelion

That's part of the list. Notice they don't mention Madonna on that site either and yet she's still listed.

and notice that there is no source for where they got this info? i'm sorry, but i don't trust anything that has no sources cited.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by touchedstar

EDIT: i think this list is false. notice that below the list is an external link to where they got this info...

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/topte...sicvideos.html

however, if you go to that site, there is no mention of fairyland. i think an ayumi fan just came along after the fact and edited the page and then listed avex as a reference. the avex site does not state that the fairyland pv is the 8th most expensive video. sorry.

Yeah, it's obvious that list isn't official, but it's in the ballpark.

[truehappiness]

Well, that 'so you wanna' page has some things that are quite a bit under 2million USD~

So Ayu's STILL quite high on the list. Max Matsuura even said Ayu had one of the most expensive PVs in Japan~

From an old letter availabe in July or so last year..

Well, that's that.
And the next music video cost 240,000,000.
I wonder if that's an all-Japan record. With that sort of production cost, you could make a movie! (LOL)
Usually a music video is made on 4,000,000 to 10,000,000 yen.
I think EXILE's are like, between 40-50,000,000.
It's not really great to spend that much,
But please try to see her next musc video.
Incidentally, my name's WOMEN cost more than 100,000,000.
But it's because Ayu doesn't half-ass anything... Seriously...
That's my unrivaled partner.