differences between single artists and band videos

What are the differences between single artists and band videos?

Single Artists

Single artists create music videos that are purely based on them, these music videos may have a specific story and there is a lot more freedom in what the artist can do and produce. This may be different from a band video as they have to keep into consideration all the different members of the group and there may need to be adjustments due to other members' personal preferences. 

Although this is the case, single artists are usually more mainstream than independent, this means a lot of the choices and decisions would not have been independent choices and would have been the record label and producers' choices. 

This is not the case for all single artists, although most artists who create popular music videos are signed to a mainstream record label. 

Bands

Bands create music videos with all the members working together, contributing and usually is just a video of the band performing rather than a music video with a message, although this is the case, many boy bands such as one direction created music videos with meanings. the reason for this is due to the fact that they are signed to universal, which would give them much more freedom to create music videos using expensive equipment. 

Most bands are not mainstream and are independent artists such as 

• Arctic Monkeys
• Radiohead
• Pixies 

And many more.

This would mean these bands have less funding than mainstream artists to create music videos, and music videos would be much more difficult to produce as there would be much more effort required in the production of these videos.