3. Die Another Day by Madonna
Madonna has several inclusions on the most expensive music video list. Her video for “Die Another Day”, directed by Traktor, was first aired in October of 2002 and cost $6.1 million at the time, which would be about $8.5 million nowadays.
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“Die Another Day” was the theme song for the James Bond movie of the same name. Madonna wrote a handwritten letter to the directing team Traktor to request that they shoot the video. It featured no footage from the movie but still followed a Bond-like plot with action scenes and gunplay.