10/4/97 MTV Top 20 Video Countdown

[Verisimilitude]

a phase of the times indeed :o

Week of 10/04/97:

1) (=) (9) Jewel - "Foolish Games" (#1 for 2 weeks)
2) (+2) (9) Mariah Carey featuring Puff Daddy and Mase - "Honey (Bad Boy remix)" (#2)
3) (-1) (11) Fiona Apple - "Criminal" (#2)
4) (+1) (7) Puff Daddy featuring the Lox, Li'l Kim and The Notorious BIG - "It's All About the Benjamins" (#4)
5) (+2) (5) Foo Fighters - "Everlong" (#5)
6) (-3) (14) Sugar Ray - "Fly" (#1 for 2 weeks)
7) (+3) (6) Sarah McLachlan - "Building a Mystery" (#7)
8) (+3) (4) Boyz II Men - "4 Seasons of Loneliness" (#8)
9) (=) (5) Smash Mouth - "Walkin' on the Sun" (#9)
10) (-4) (8) Wyclef Jean featuring Refugee Allstars - "We Trying to Stay Alive" (#3)
11) (+4) (4) Busta Rhymes - "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" (#11)
12) (+1) (3) Janet Jackson featuring Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell - "Got 'Til It's Gone" (#12)
13) (+4) (2) Green Day - "Hitchin' a Ride" (#13)
14) (+5) (2) Mary J. Blige - "Everything" (#14)
15) (+1) (3) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "The Rascal King" (#15)
16) (Debut) (1) Will Smith - "Just Cruisin'" (#16)
17) (Debut) (1) Oasis - "Don't Go Away" (#17)
18) (+2) (2) Salt 'n' Pepa - "R U Ready" (#18)
19) (-11) (7) Li'l Kim featuring Angie Martinez, Left Eye, Da Brat and Missy Elliott - "Not Tonight" (#8)
20) (Debut) (1) LL Cool J - "Phenomenon" (#20)

[Night Senses]

I love ALL those songs!

[somelikeitwhen]

I think they stopped doing this around 1998 when TRL premiered.
Again, where are you getting these? If someone has a full archive can you please post a link?

[Verisimilitude]

Oct 4, 2010 15:35:58 GMT -5 somelikeitwhen said:

I think they stopped doing this around 1998 when TRL premiered.
Again, where are you getting these? If someone has a full archive can you please post a link?

Here is the page. I hope you can cruise through 16 pages of history there (although the years are still not complete). I know the countdown aired from 1984 until Spring 1998.

[somelikeitwhen]

That's nice to know. I wonder if anyone has anything from Total Request (the show that was around before TRL).
In terms of how high my priority is to finding charts, this was probably behind the VH1 countdown and anything from the Box.

[johnnywest]

The Rascal King? Never heard of it, but most of these songs are good.