This article lists the most expensive music videos ever made, with costs of $500,000 or more, from those whose budgets have been disclosed.
Madonna has made three appearances in the top five, and five total, making her the artist with the most expensive videos of all time combined.
TLC, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Guns N' Roses, Mylène Farmer and MC Hammer appear on the list twice.
Nigel Dick, Mark Romanek and John Landis appear twice, the latter with videos both for Michael Jackson.
[1] In a 2017 interview, Mick Garris, a writer for Michael Jackson's Ghosts stated that after several years of production development for the Ghosts short film: "It became the most expensive music video ever made...it ended up coming in at about $15 million, all of it out of Michael's pocket.