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The third instalment of our Videos Of The Year list for 2024 includes videos for Unknown T featuring Loyle Carner, Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish, Ezra Collective featuring Yasmin Lacey and Dua Lipa.
Taken from hundreds of videos featured on Promonews in the past 12 months, and organised in alphabetical order of song title, this batch of videos includes work by the biggest names in the business of music video direction and some of the most exciting new and up and coming directors.
The following 10 picks for our Videos Of The Year includes links to the original stories about these fantastic videos in Promonews, and to the profile pages of the directors and featured site sponsors.
An ambitious 13 minute music film, a visual tour de force and a reflection on relationships through the prism of dance - with some of the coolest musicians on the planet.
Director
Jenn NkiruTajana Tokyo updates a classic Hollywood musical, boy meets girl storyline to East London nightlife with the help of two outstanding performers, Michelle Zan and Kitz Katika. And it really is an expression of joy through dancing.
Director
Tajana TokyoProduction company
SomesuchThe most surprising appearance by Chris Martin in a music video, and it's not for Coldplay. In an eerie, ominous, remarkable VFX achievement, with AI involvement, the classic video for Yellow is transformed.
Director
Jonathan IrwinProduction company
JoyriderCharli teamed up with Billie to maintain her chokehold on summer pop, and keep the internet abuzz with another Aidan Zamiri-directed video - In a whirlwind of underwear, heavy machinery, and passionate partying.
Director
Aidan ZamiriA tale of suburban love, told through the directing team's distinctive style - mind-boggling action, and slapstick comedy, captured on fixed lo-fi CCTV cameras (and 'doorbell cam') - leaving enough narrative mystery to keep viewers intrigued.
Director
ShadrinskyThe director of indie movie Hoard's first music video nods to cult horror movies as it celebrates female strength, with a bullied teen girl's transformation from outcast to a powerful, defiant force with the help of a group of girls with special powers.
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Luna CarmoonEditing company
Trim EditingLabel
XL RecordingsInspired by technology, play and contemporary design, Felix Brady pushes the rap envelope, and subverts expectations of the artists with a series of visually inventive performance vignettes, satisfying the appetite for 'eye candy' like few others.
Director
Felix BradyProduction company
Stink FilmsEditing company
Trim EditingTwin Peaks meets The Big Lebowski as Geordie Greep performs a strange inner voice-style vocal whilst dancing a skillful salsa, supping a cocktail and effortlessly sending strike after strike down the bowling alley. Weird, multi-layered, very funny.
Directors
Ethan & TomProduction company
PartizanA poolside fantasy, set against a breathtaking Barcelona backdrop, it's music video as sheer escapist entertainment by the director who does that thing better than anyone. A production that's precision-tooled to perfection.
Director
Tanu MuinoProduction company
UnderWonder ContentDirector's Rep
Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UKThe reinvention of Cabello is in good hands with Méndez, making supercool visual ideas look effortless, via Greco-Roman wrestling, arrow injuries, finger gun shoot-ups, angry dogs, corner store dance-offs and more.
Director
Nicolás MéndezProduction company
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