I wanted to do some secondary research to see how relevant music videos are when it comes to people listening to music. I found an article from 'The Hollywood Reporter' that was published in 2012 that showed me that statistically, most people (especially teenagers) use YouTube to listen to music more than listening to the radio. This means that more people are watching music videos along with listening to the audio which goes along with the video. This may mean that the viewers find the music video more interesting as they may want to see the storyline behind it or even just their favourite artists performing. I have also noticed that any songs that enter the charts without a music video tend to not get past the number 20 mark very often before falling places. Then, once the music video for the track is released, the song tends to rise again in the charts. The article i found can be seen in the link below:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/youtube-radio-teens-music-survey-361857