Video single
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A video single is a music single in the form of a videotape. Although the format has existed in form since the early 1980s in the form of Video 45s, the format gained higher levels of mainstream popularity when Madonna released "Justify My Love" as a video single in 1990 following the blacklisting of the video by MTV. U2 also released "Numb", the lead single from their 1993 album Zooropa as a video single.
Despite the success of these releases, the video single struggled as its releases were relatively periodical, and it was replaced by the DVD single by the early 2000s.
