Just how huge was TRL back in the late 90s?
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It’s an interesting time capsule cuz even though pop music usually won, they’d have at least a couple different genres of music in the top 10. It would be Christina Aguilera followed by Korn followed by Dave Matthews or something. If you did TRL today it would all be forgettable garbage pop. Gen Z/Alpha only listen to one kind of music
>>219281476If you were debuting a new music video its where you did it. If you were promoting a new album its where you did it. People tuned in just to see how the top ten would shake up every day. The internet? Pff, what was #1 today on TRL, bro, I missed it?
As a high IQ individual I preferred VH1 Video Countdown.
>>219281476I was 8 in 2000 and my sister was 13, and several of her friends would have been one of those teenage girls with magazines taped to the walls and they own a backstreet boys, etc.my sister's friend kayla was absolutely fucking obssessed with nick & aaron carter. TRL was just as real as the stories make it out to be. It seems stupid, because it was, but it was real. Every weekday at 4PM, every single day, right after school there would be a live show for an hour that highlighted the newest and most popular music of the day. Google barely existed yet. The internet was a smattering of web pages.From a broadcasting and marketing standpoint, the premise is absolutely fucking brilliant.
>>219281685vh1 top 20 video countdown with rachel perry was born because TRL had strayed from its rootsBut yes, you're right. although every fucking week they had that stupid fucking keane song for like a full 2 years.
>>219281792thanks Uncwhere are your sister and Kayla now?
>>219281818lmao
My favorite part was the clock mismanagement that gave us 15 seconds of the #1 video before the next program started.
