The Official GOAT List: Ranking the Greatest Music Videos of All Time

Music Videos

You don’t just remember these videos. You remember where your brain went when you first saw them. Zombies dancing in formation. Pencil-sketch animation breaking reality. Beyoncé turning a blank room into a global workout. Nirvana making a pep rally feel like the end of the world. This is not a “best song” debate. Kill that immediately. This is about the videos that hijacked culture, rewired MTV, flooded group chats, launched Halloween costumes, inspired bad dorm-room reenactments, and made people say, “Wait, run that back.” Some are art. Some are chaos. Some are pure main-character nonsense. All of them have receipts. Start voting and prepare to disrespect somebody’s childhood.

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All Time ranks by all-time win rate across every head-to-head battle. Latest ranks by latest fan sentiment, updated as new battles are voted on.

1. THRILLER (MICHAEL JACKSON)

86.7% win rate

#1 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

2. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (QUEEN)

65.8% win rate

#2 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

3. TAKE ON ME (A-HA)

60.0% win rate

#3 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

4. NOVEMBER RAIN (GUNS N’ ROSES)

48.1% win rate

#4 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

5. SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT (NIRVANA)

47.3% win rate

#5 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

6. SINGLE LADIES (BEYONCÉ)

42.6% win rate

#6 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

7. BAD ROMANCE (LADY GAGA)

32.1% win rate

#7 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

8. LOSE YOURSELF (EMINEM)

31.6% win rate

#8 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

9. THIS IS AMERICA (CHILDISH GAMBINO)

26.0% win rate

#9 Greatest Music Videos of All Time

10. WRECKING BALL (MILEY CYRUS)

25.1% win rate

#10 Greatest Music Videos of All Time