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True fact: Korn was SO successful on TRL that they never even fell to the #10 spot on the show until “Make Me Bad”; they truly were in a class of dominance comparable to N*Sync and BSB in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. They even charted successfully up until “Untouchables”! Hard to imagine now, but it happened - and actually happened often.
Yeah, looking back and realizing that KoRn and Limp Bizkit were playing to the same rooms and largely same audiences as Backstreet and N'Sync...that's just fucking bizarre.
AFI's Love Like Winter also reached #1 on TRL in 2006, amidst artists such as Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Pink and Christina Aguilera. Granted, that particular song is not really rock and the Hot Topic emo fad was at its zenith, but it was still kind of surreal seeing AFI, of all bands, take the top spot.
Not only is TRL gone, so is the music video. Music videos used to be an absolutely massive promotional tool, but now they're just as vestigial as CDs or iTunes. Some music videos break through because they end up becoming a meme, but Lady Gaga was the last artist whose music video releases were an actual event. And the reason, like everything else, is Spotify.
Don’t forget that Korn also had the first video retired from TRL (voted in 65 times) with “Got The Life.” A lot of us may have outgrew them and I don’t know how many of the newer generation like them, but they were a force to be reckoned with back in the day. Hard to find anybody that didn’t think “Freak on a Leash” was a badass video.
I still love them. I've loved them since Blind came out and will continue loving them for the rest of my life. They were part of the soundtrack to my teenage years, so they have a special place in my heart.
Sum 41 being on TRL at #1 was awesome.I also agree with Linkin Park's Minutes To Midnight being underrated and not getting enough credit.Fantastic video as always.Keep it up.
I remember skimming through channels when I was 9 and stumbling across the music video for What I’ve Done by Linkin Park and I absolutely loved the band and got more into Linkin Park. Good memories.
Really surprising to me that neither “In the end” nor “Numb” were number ones for the band on TRL, as huge as those songs were. Guess I should be thankful that that network was still playing music vids at all in between the reality and game shows.
Man, all these bands and songs were and still are banging! Most of these are my favorite tracks by each band. I’m, also, surprised how Adam’s Song got to #1 on TRL rather than any of their other music videos, like All the Small Things and What’s My Age Again, especially.
“Dance, Dance” - Fall Out Boy will always be my favorite TRL number one. 🖤 Panic!’s “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies” would be another one, but according to Wikipedia, it never hit number one on TRL? That’s crazy, because it won Video of the Year at the VMAs in 2006. Unless I overlooked it on the list.
Anyone remember when they did the whole "Korn Across America" or whatever it was called? They did like a massive promotion for Follow the Leader and it was wild seeing them on MTV like that. I had been listening to Korn for years but they never got big mainstream attention, then all of a sudden they were EVERYWHERE. The 90s were a crazy time for music.
That last part is too true. It’s sad how music videos aren’t massive in artistry anymore. I have a playlist full of artists that had some good music videos. Evanescence, Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, a few pop artists from those eras, etc. Those music videos inspired my stories and directions for imaginary music videos I made for certain bands I like. It’s a shame how lackluster the format has become.
European bands like Feuerschwanz, Electric Callboy, Nanowar of Steel and many other steel make very high production cool music videos. So do some of the metal bands like architects, spirtibox, lorna shore to name a few
My mom hated TRL because she didn't like Boy Bands. Then when I was a young kid, my mom saw the Korn spot and listened to it. If only she knew that some years later, I would develop an obsession with Korn as a pre-teen. She probably wouldn't have let me listen to that section since she is convinced that hearing that in TRL made their music stick in my mind even for a decade later. But my mom should've figured I wouldn't love U2 like she did, when I got kicked out of my Preschool Catholic School Class. Because I was singing the chorus to Girls Girls Girls from Motley Crue. But she's accepted it so far.
I remember Sum 41's Fat Lip hitting #1 multiple times whenever it ebbed away to a pop song and then flowed back when Fat Lip was a novelty again. Those were the days
It's crazy to me that In the End or Faint didn't make number 1 those were all over the radio when I was growing up. M2M is underrated I agree though! Miss you Chester!
Adam’s Song by Blink-182 and Fat Lip by Sum-41 are no brainers they are instant classics after the first chords in both songs. Adam’s Song it was also cool how Blink-182 could be the party animals making fart jokes and singing about having sex with Grandpa. The tone it all down to really be serious about a topics like Suicide in Adam’s Song or (I know this was a couple years down the road) Divorce in Stay Together For The Kids.
Being a 90's kid and 2000s teen, it wasnt unusual to like alternative/heavy music and be "trendy". My playlists (or mixtapes at the time) were featuring Korn, Linkin Park, 50 cent AND Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. I wouldnt claim to be into heavy music at the time, but I was up on Korn, Blink 182 and Linkin Park. Now I've expanded my taste in heavy music past what's trendy. But in the 90's, popular music included Rock, Hip hop and Dance music. That definitely ended in the 2000s for rock music. I cant think of the last time I've seen a heavy band be mainstream like they were in the TRL days.
"Erika" As a Gen Z, your comment shows me that I should have been born in 1985 so I can have my teenage years from 1998-2003 as most of my favorite songs come from those years. Don't know why people treat this as the worst era ever in mainstream music
fun fact: when All Downhill From Here's music video premiered on TRL, it was tied to a now lost episode where the hosts interviewed cartoon characters from shows like The Powerpuff Girls, Fairly Oddparents and Family Guy. Only the Fairly Oddparents segment is avaiable due to it being used as a DVD extra
Yep, which also explains why they hyped it up and got it to number 1. I knew the PPG interview is lost, but the FG one also being lost as well surprised me.
I was so glad for the Rules segment because it eliminated three of the five bands that popped in my head from the title: Limp Bizkit, Good Charlotte and Simple Plan (Korn and MCR were the other two).
I remember when Nine Inch Nails came out with "We're In This Together" back in 99. I went out of my way to watch TRL to see where the video ranked. It never made it on the show. Taught me a serious lesson in just how far from the norm my taste is music was.
My buddy and I would get together a few times a week to get baked and watch daytime TV. TRL was one of our faves, and it really did have a fair amount of rock both on the list and in the studio. Probably the last bastion of music on MTV.
Those early 2000s for rock was special while still not getting a lot of mainstream respect, I do miss hard rock and metal music videos getting played on tv. Fuse Uranium, HBO Zone, MtvX. While most of those channels didn't last they was a window into music that wasn't always shown.
I fell out of TRL by about the early 2000s so anything after 2000 is totally foreign to me, since MTV in my area as a channel were starting to push Sweet 16, The Real World and whatever Bret Michaels and Lil Wayne wanted to do in reality television. So, seeing TRL was a rarity at that turn. I do remember having rooting for any bands that could at least crack the Top 3 because normally 1 and 2 was a given for pop artists around that time. It was pleasant to have finally seen Korn get 1 for once and a few times.
Here in AUS the TRL equivalent was a show called ‘By Demand’ on Channel V. I swear Freak on a Leach was number 1 for months. If not it was defs the longest consecutive number 1.
In Canada we had Musique Plus and Much Music. Both followed MTV’s path and no longer exists. Like MTV, these channels were good in the 1980{s and the 1990’s. I miss that era.
Below before I even watched the video, the first song that I thought of was miss murder by AFI. TRL actually had a thing where when it was number 1 for Is so long that it got retired from the countdown
Actually I looked up the TRL Number Ones to see what other rock bands reached #1, other good ones that weren't mentioned that I found were Move Along by The All American Rejects and Dani California by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I'm not saying AV7 is the best band here, but I find them making it to #1 more impressive than the other bands. It's not only a rock song, but it's kind of a song for guitar nerds too. Nobody of their era was playing guitar solos at the time, like, at all.
Basically all my favorite bands are in this video. Green Day, Linkin Park, A7x, Korn, Sum 41, and Blink could quite possibly be my top 6 bands. We are just missing The Offspring, Sevendust, Papa Roach, and Falling In Reverse to round out my top 10.
I LOVED when Tom Greens "Bum Bum Song" got to number 1 on TRL and shocked the world... Until his employer (MTV) forced him to "retire" the video after proving his point, humiliating the show and taking a huge swing at the shows "integrity" 😂
TIL that Linkin Park's "What I've Done" had a different music video in America. In Britain I always thought that MV was very underwhelming compared to their others, now I finally know why.
This is all news to me. During this era of MTV, I was only watching MTV2. It was where all the good shit was happening and where all the old shit that was good came back. Then they screwed it up and turned it into MTV 1.5 🤦♂💀
Add TRL’s prime in the late 90s and early 2000s it was pretty common for a rock or metal band to be at number one. Yes you did have boy bands in the late 90s but it didn’t take long before rappers and rock bands really made them all unpopular. Korn, Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park , etc. we’re all at the top
Boy bands come and go, so it's just a phase. Jackson 5, Menudo, New Kids on the Block, N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, One Direction, and so on. There have been many, so it's not really rappers or rock bands that make them unpopular. Their time only lasts so long, then one or more of the members goes solo, and eventually a new group of boy bands shows up to repeat the process.
wasn't there a video countdown show before TRL? it where "Smells like Teen Spirit was on top for WEEKS" I used to record the show on VHS to watch the music videos back.
I had a dream the other evening that i was at a Linkin Park concert. I have never been to a Linkin Park concert, i wish i had been. It was the greatest gift my brain has given me.
I despised New Found Glory just cause of the singers voice but pop punk was always my favorite genre. I might go back to that album cause I know a lot of people liked the ones with that “catalyst” song on it.
If you like pop ounk you need to dig into nfg a little. I know some hate hs voice, but they are imo, the best pop punk band of all time. Every album is amazing.
Warms my heart seeing punk green day blink numetal linkin park korn and metalcore a7x 2 of my favorites with a7x and lp korn which i still pike alot and blink and green 2 of my better liked punk
More surprising bat country got there for a7x considering the movie/book it's based off of. I don't think hunter s Thompson is a popular read among teens
I remember seeing the Wake Me Up When September Ends video the day it premiered in summer '05. I was 13 years old, about to go into 8th grade, and Green Day were probably the best band in the world to me at that time. I remember it having a big impact in me, it sat with me for the rest of the day. My family was on vacation at that time, and I remember the video hovering over my mind during a sunny August day at a waterpark.
#1 should be GOT THE LIFE by KORN.... I think the song was the first and/or only song to be officially retired because it was just unbeatable! Nevermind. Apparently the video for GOT THE LIFE was retired from the countdown for being in the top 3 for too long, but only peaked at #2. That magnificent song and video wasn't able to dethrone N'SYNC and Britney Spears. Now Got the Life is still amazing, while Britney and N'SYNC are extinct. And their music is dead.
TRL....wow. I feel like we are so far removed from that that when you bring TRL up you might as well be talking about American Bandstand. I have to wonder if a TRL/American Bandstand could even happen today. Young people's consumption has changed so much I don't think they could be bothered to gather around anything for a daily top 10 music show.
Different times, for sure. Back then, the Web was still very young, and very few people had cell phones, so watching a daily TV show would be more common. Now both are ubiquitous, so TV has taken more of a backseat when it comes to music consumption.
