Making the Video is an MTV show consisting of half-hour episodes chronicling the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video (or treatment) and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the finished video. The show premiered on June 28, 1999, and ended in 2010.

MTV2 aired a similar show entitled [Name of Band/Artist] Makes a Video that featured artists such as 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Evanescence, and Mos Def among others.

Season 1

  • 98 Degrees – "I Do (Cherish You)" (1999)
  • Britney Spears – "(You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!)" (1999)
  • LL Cool J – "Deepest Bluest (Shark's Fin)" (1999)
  • Jordan Knight – "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (1999)
  • Jewel – "Jupiter (Swallow the Moon)" (1999)
  • Jay-Z – "Girl's Best Friend" (1999)
  • Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z – "Heartbreaker" (1999)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "Waiting for Tonight" (1999)
  • Chris Cornell – "Can't Change Me" (1999)
  • Puff Daddy featuring R. Kelly – "Satisfy You" (1999)
  • Blink-182 – "All the Small Things" (1999)
  • The Offspring – "She's Got Issues" (1999)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Around the World" (1999)
  • Enrique Iglesias – "Rhythm Divine" (1999)
  • Garbage – "The World is Not Enough" (1999)
  • Sugar Ray – "Falls Apart" (1999)
  • Whitney Houston – "I Learned from the Best" (1999)
  • R.E.M. – "The Great Beyond" (1999)

Season 2

  • Dr. Dre featuring Eminem & Hittman – "Forgot About Dre" (2000)
  • *NSYNC – "Bye Bye Bye" (2000)
  • Mandy Moore – "Walk Me Home" (2000)
  • No Doubt – "Ex-Girlfriend" (2000)
  • Jessica Simpson featuring Nick Lachey – "Where You Are" (2000)
  • Beck – "Mixed Bizness" (2000)
  • Sisqó – "Thong Song" (2000)
  • Hanson – "This Time Around" (2000)
  • Jay-Z featuring UGK – "Big Pimpin'" (2000)
  • Da Brat featuring Tyrese – "What'Chu Like" (2000)
  • Stone Temple Pilots – "Sour Girl" (2000)
  • Christina Aguilera – "I Turn to You" (2000)
  • Britney Spears – "Oops!...I Did It Again" (2000)
  • Kid Rock – "American Bad Ass" (2000)
  • Eminem – "The Real Slim Shady" (2000)
  • Foo Fighters – "Breakout" (2000)
  • Metallica – "I Disappear" (2000)
  • *NSYNC – "It's Gonna Be Me" (2000)

Season 3

  • Janet Jackson – "Doesn't Really Matter" (2000)
  • LL Cool J – "Imagine That" (2000)
  • Britney Spears – "Lucky" (2000)
  • Busta Rhymes – "Fire" (2000)
  • Big Tymers – "#1 Stunna" (2000)
  • 98 Degrees – "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)" (2000)
  • Christina Aguilera – "Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)" (2000)
  • 2gether – "The Hardest Part of Breaking Up (Is Getting Back Your Stuff)" (2000)
  • Lenny Kravitz – "Again" (2000)
  • Destiny's Child – "Independent Women, Part 1" (2000)
  • Ricky Martin – "She Bangs" (2000)
  • Backstreet Boys – "Shape of My Heart" (2000)
  • Blink-182 – "Man Overboard" (2000)
  • OutKast – "Ms. Jackson" (2000)
  • Britney Spears – "Stronger" (2000)
  • BBMak – "Still on Your Side" (2000)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "Love Don't Cost a Thing" (2000)
  • Lucy Pearl featuring Snoop Dogg & Q-Tip – "You" (2000)

Season 4

  • Ricky Martin featuring Christina Aguilera – "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" (2001)
  • Snoop Dogg – "Lay Low" (2001)
  • Eve – "Who's That Girl?" (2001)
  • The Jackson 5 – "La-La Means I Love You (snippet)" – with a cameo appearance by Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty (2001)
  • Aerosmith – "Jaded" (2001)
  • Matchbox Twenty – "Mad Season" (2001)
  • Destiny's Child – "Survivor" (2001)
  • Jay-Z featuring R. Kelly – "Guilty Until Proven Innocent"/"Fiesta" (2001)
  • Dream – "This Is Me"/Tyrese – "I Like Them Girls" (2001)

Season 5

  • Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa, & Pink – "Lady Marmalade" (2001)
  • Baha Men – "Best Years of Our Lives" (2001)
  • U2 – "Elevation" (2001)
  • *NSYNC – "Pop" (2001)
  • Destiny's Child – "Bootylicious" (2001)
  • Sisqo – "Can I Live" (2001)
  • Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule – "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (2001)
  • Ludacris featuring Nate Dogg – "Area Codes" (2001)

Season 6

  • Britney Spears – "I'm a Slave 4 U" (2001)
  • On the Line All-Stars – "On the Line" (2001)
  • P. Diddy – "Diddy" (2001)
  • Janet Jackson – "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is about You)" (2001)
  • P!nk – "Get The Party Started" (2001)

Season 7

  • No Doubt – "Hey Baby" (2001)
  • Ja Rule featuring Ashanti – "Always On Time" (2001)
  • Creed – "My Sacrifice" (2001)
  • Kid Rock – "Forever" (2001)
  • Marilyn Manson – "Tainted Love" (2001)

Season 8

  • Nick Cannon, Lil' Romeo, & 3LW – "Parents Just Don't Understand" (2001)
  • Britney Spears – "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" (2001)
  • Foo Fighters – "The One" (2001)
  • Enrique Iglesias – "Escape" (2002)
  • Brandy – "What About Us?" (2002)
  • Shakira – "Underneath Your Clothes" (2002)
  • P!nk – "Don't Let Me Get Me" (2002)
  • Usher featuring Ludacris – "U Don't Have To Call" (2002)
  • Godsmack – "I Stand Alone" (2002)
  • No Doubt – "Hella Good" (2002)

Season 9

  • Sum 41 – "It's What We're All About" (2002)
  • Puddle of Mudd – "Drift & Die" (2002)
  • P.O.D. – "Boom" (2002)
  • Eminem – "Without Me" (2002)
  • P. Diddy featuring Loon, Ginuwine & Mario Winans – "I Need A Girl Pt. 2" (2002)
  • Jennifer Lopez featuring Nas – "I'm Gonna Be Alright" (2002)
  • Papa Roach – "She Loves Me Not" (2002)
  • R. Kelly – "Ignition Remix" (2002)
  • Nelly – "Hot In Herre" (2002)
  • Will Smith – "Nod Ya Head" (2002)
  • Beyoncé – "Work It Out" (2002)
  • Kelly Osbourne – "Papa Don't Preach" (2002)
  • Eve featuring Alicia Keys – "Gangsta Lovin'" (2002)
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt – "BareNaked" (2002)
  • Shakira – "Objection (Tango)" (2002)
  • Michelle Branch – "Goodbye To You" (2002)
  • Jimmy Fallon – "Idiot Boyfriend" (2002)
  • Lil' Bow Wow, Lil Wayne, Lil' Zane, & Sammie – "Hardball" (2002)
  • Avril Lavigne – "Sk8er Boi" (2002)
  • Justin Timberlake – "Like I Love You" (2002)
  • Nick Carter – "Help Me" (2002)
  • Kelly Clarkson – "Before Your Love" (2002)
  • Christina Aguilera featuring Redman – "Dirrty" (2002)
  • Madonna – "Die Another Day" (2002)
  • Missy Elliott – "Work It" (2002)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "Jenny from the Block" (2002)

Season 10

  • Good Charlotte – "The Anthem" (2003)
  • Mariah Carey featuring Cam'ron – "Boy (I Need You)" (2003)
  • DMX – "X Gon' Give It to Ya" (2003)
  • Justin Timberlake – "Rock Your Body" (2003)
  • Linkin Park – "Somewhere I Belong" (2003)
  • Avril Lavigne – "Losing Grip" (2003)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "I'm Glad" (2003)
  • Christina Aguilera – "Fighter" (2003)
  • Ludacris – "Act a Fool" (2003)
  • Pink – "Feel Good Time" (2003)
  • Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z – "Crazy In Love" (2003)
  • Mýa – "My Love Is Like...Wo!" (2003)
  • Ruben Studdard – "Flying Without Wings" (2003)
  • Madonna – "Hollywood" (2003)
  • Nelly featuring Murphy Lee & P. Diddy – "Shake Ya Tailfeather" (2003)
  • Jessica Simpson – "Sweetest Sin"/ Nick Lachey – "Shut Up"
  • Mary J. Blige – "Love @ 1st Sight" (2003)
  • Hilary Duff – "So Yesterday" (2003)
  • Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, MC Lyte & Free – "Fighting Temptation"
  • Da Band – "Bad Boy This, Bad Boy That" (2003)
  • Pink – "Trouble" (2003)
  • Limp Bizkit – "Behind Blue Eyes" (2003)
  • Britney Spears featuring Madonna – "Me Against the Music" (2003)
  • Blink-182 – "Feeling This" (2003)
  • Mary J. Blige featuring Eve – "Not Today" (2003)
  • Triumph the Insult Comic Dog – "I Keed" (2003)
  • Puddle of Mudd – "Away from Me" (2003)

Season 11

  • Hilary Duff – "Come Clean" (2004)
  • Chingy featuring Jason Weaver – "One Call Away" (2004)
  • Britney Spears – "Toxic" (2004)
  • D12 – "My Band" (2004)
  • Jessica Simpson – "Take My Breath Away" (2004)
  • Jay-Z – "99 Problems" (2004)
  • Brandy featuring Kanye West – "Talk About Our Love" (2004)
  • Yellowcard – "Only One" (2004)
  • Hilary Duff & Haylie Duff – "Our Lips Are Sealed" (2004)
  • Usher – "Confessions Part II" (2004)
  • Mase – "Welcome Back" (2004)
  • Nelly – "Flap Your Wings"/Nelly featuring Jaheim – "My Place" (2004)
  • Green Day – "American Idiot" (2004)
  • Good Charlotte – "Predictable" (2004)
  • Ja Rule featuring R. Kelly & Ashanti – "Wonderful" (2004)
  • Xzibit – "Hey Now (Mean Muggin)" (2004)
  • Eminem – "Just Lose It" (2004)
  • Lindsay Lohan – "Rumors" (2004)
  • Nelly featuring Christina Aguilera – "Tilt Ya Head Back" (2004)
  • Gwen Stefani – "What You Waiting For?" (2004)
  • Ashlee Simpson – "La La" (2004)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "Get Right" (2005)
  • Twista featuring Faith Evans – "Hope" (2005)
  • Snoop Dogg – "Let's Get Blown" (2005)

Season 12

  • 50 Cent featuring Olivia – "Candy Shop" (2005)
  • Eminem – "Ass Like That" (2005)
  • Mariah Carey – "It's Like That" (2005)
  • Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson & Justin Timberlake – "Signs" (2005)
  • Nelly – "Errtime" (2005)
  • Kelly Osbourne – "One Word" (2005)
  • Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz – "La Tortura" (2005)
  • The Game – "Dreams" (2005)
  • Ludacris featuring Bobby Valentino – "Pimpin' All Over the World" (2005)
  • Foo Fighters – "Best of You" (2005)
  • Jessica Simpson – "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (2005)
  • Ashlee Simpson – "Boyfriend" (2005)
  • 50 Cent – "Window Shopper" (2005)
  • Lindsay Lohan – "Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father)" (2005)
  • Shakira – "Don't Bother" (2005)
  • Jamie Foxx – "Unpredictable" (2005)
  • KoЯn – "Twisted Transistor" (2005)
  • Kanye West featuring Adam Levine – "Heard 'Em Say" (2005)
  • Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug – "Check On It" (2005)

Season 13

  • The Notorious B.I.G. – "Spit Your Game" featuring Twista, Krayzie Bone, and 8Ball & MJG (2006)
  • Daddy Yankee – "Gangsta Zone" (2006)
  • Fall Out Boy – "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"" (2006)
  • Nick Lachey – "What's Left Of Me" (2006)
  • T.I. – "Why You Wanna" (2006)
  • Ashlee Simpson – "Invisible" (2006)
  • Christina Aguilera – "Ain't No Other Man" (2006)
  • Jessica Simpson – "A Public Affair" (2006)
  • Justin Timberlake – "SexyBack" (2006)
  • Janet Jackson featuring Nelly – "Call On Me" (2006)
  • Danity Kane – "Show Stopper" (2006)
  • Ludacris featuring Pharrell – "Money Maker" (2006)
  • Chris Cornell – "You Know My Name" (2006)
  • Diddy – "Tell Me" featuring Christina Aguilera (2006)
  • Gwen Stefani – "Wind It Up" (2006)
  • Beyoncé – "Listen" (2006)

Season 14

  • Nelly Furtado – "Maneater" (2007)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "Que Hiciste" (2007)
  • Natasha Bedingfield – "I Wanna Have Your Babies" (2007)
  • Rihanna – "Shut Up and Drive" (2007)
  • Foo Fighters – "The Pretender" (2007)
  • Avril Lavigne – "Hot" (2007)
  • Mariah Carey – "Touch My Body" (2008)
  • Usher – "Love in This Club" (2008)
  • Bon Jovi – "Whole Lot Of Leavin'" (2008)
  • Natasha Bedingfield – "Pocketful of Sunshine" (2008)
  • Lily Allen – "The Fear" (2009)
  • Ashley Tisdale – "It's Alright, It's OK" (2009)
  • Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg – "California Gurls" (2010)

...Makes a Video episodes

2004

  • Akon – "Ghetto" (2004)
  • Kanye West – "All Falls Down" (2004)
  • Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz featuring Ice Cube – "Roll Call" (2004/early 2005)
  • Linkin Park – "Breaking the Habit" (2004)
  • Mobb Deep – "Got It Twisted" (2004)
  • N.O.R.E. – "Oye Mi Canto"

2005

  • 50 Cent featuring Mobb Deep – "Outta Control (Remix)" (2005)
  • Boyz n da Hood – "Felonies" (2005)
  • Cassidy – "I'm a Hustla" (2005)
  • Ciara – "Oh" featuring Ludacris
  • Common – "The Corner"
  • Common – "Testify"
  • Daddy Yankee – "Rompe"
  • Eminem – "Ass Like That" (entitled "Eminem's Making The Ass" rather than "Eminem Makes A Video", but is considered a ...Makes a Video episode)
  • Green Day – "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
  • Green Day – "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
  • J-Kwon featuring Petey Pablo – "Get XXX'd" (2005)
  • Jim Jones featuring P. Diddy, Jha Jha & Paul Wall – "What You Been Drankin' On" (2005)
  • Juelz Santana – "Oh Yes"/"Clockwork"
  • Lil Wayne – "Fireman" (2005)
  • Ludacris featuring Field Mob – "Georgia" (2005)
  • Memphis Bleek – "Like That"
  • Mike Jones "Back Then" (2005)
  • Mike Jones "Flossin'"/"Screw Dat" (2005)
  • Mobb Deep featuring 50 Cent – "Have A Party" (2005)
  • Paul Wall – "Sittin' Sidewayz" (2005)
  • R. Kelly – "Playa's Only" featuring The Game (2005)
  • R. Kelly – "Trapped in the Closet (Chapter 6)"
  • T.I. – "ASAP/Motivation" (2005)
  • Twista featuring Pitbull – "Hit The Floor" (2005)
  • Ying Yang Twins – "Wait (The Whisper Song)" (2005)
  • Ying Yang Twins – "Shake" featuring Pitbull
  • Young Jeezy – "Trapstar"/"Go Crazy" (2005)

2006

  • 50 Cent featuring Olivia – "Best Friend (Remix)" (2006)
  • Cam'ron – "Touch It or Not"/"Wet Wipes" (2006)
  • Dem Franchize Boyz – "Ridin' Rims" (2006)
  • DJ Khaled – "Grammy Family" featuring Kanye West, Consequence, and John Legend
  • DJ Khaled – "Holla At Me" featuring Lil Wayne, Paul Wall, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and Pitbull (2006)
  • E-40 – "Tell Me When To Go" (2006)
  • The Game – Let's Ride (2006)
  • Ghostface Killah featuring Ne-Yo – "Back Like That" (2006)
  • Ice Cube – "Go to Church" featuring Snoop Dogg and Lil' Jon (2006)
  • Jim Jones – "We Fly High"
  • Juvenile featuring Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Skip and Wacko – "Way I Be Leanin'"
  • Lil' Jon featuring E-40 and Sean Paul – "Snap Ya Fingers" (2006)
  • Lil' Scrappy featuring Young Buck – "Money In The Bank" (2006)
  • Lil Wayne featuring Robin Thicke – "Shooter" (2006)
  • Lupe Fiasco – "I Gotcha" (2006)
  • Sleepy Brown featuring Pharrell & Big Boi – "Margarita" (2006)
  • Snoop Dogg featuring R. Kelly – "That's That"
  • T.I. featuring UGK – "Front Back"
  • Three 6 Mafia – "Poppin' My Collar" (2006)
  • Xzibit – "Concentrate"
  • Yung Joc – "I Know You See It"/"Dope Boy Magic" (2006)

References

  • MTV: Making the Video
  • TV.com: Making the Video