TRL Top 100 of 1998

[Unexpected]

100| Master P - "Kenny's Dead"
99 | Janet Jackson - "I Get Lonely"
98 | Spice Girls - "Too Much"
97 | Everclear - "I Will Buy You A New Life"
96 | Metallica - "Turn The Page"
95 | N Sync - "God Must've Spent (A Little More Time On You)"
94 | Green Day - "Redundant"
93 | Rob Zombie - "Dragula"
92 | Monifah - "Touch It"
91 | Jennifer Love Hewitt - "How Do I Deal"
90 | Ben Folds Five - "Brick"
89 | Everlast - "What It's Like"
88 | Madonna - "Frozen"
87 | Five - "When The Lights Go Out"
86 | Dave Matthews Band - "Don't Drink The Water"
85 | Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey - "When You Believe"
84 | DMX - "Rough Ryders Anthem (Stop Drop)"
83 | Sparkle featuring R. Kelly - "Be Careful"
82 | 98 Degrees - "Because of You"
81 | Matchbox 20 - "Back 2 Good"
80 | Garbage - "Push It"
79 | Jermaine Dupri & Mariah Carey - "Sweetheart"
78 | The Wallflowers - "Heroes"
77 | Mya featuring Sisqo - "It's All About Me"
76 | Sheryl Crow - "My Favorite Mistake"
75 | Brandy featuring Mase - "Top of The World"
74 | Rammstein - "Du Hast"
73 | Marcy Playground - "Sex & Candy"
72 | Lenny Kravitz - "Fly Away"
71 | Backstreet Boys - "All I Have To Give"
70 | Shawn Mullins - "Lullaby"
69 | Metallica - "The Unforgiven ll"
68 | Madonna - "Power of Goodbye"
67 | Cherry Poppin' Daddies - "Zoot Suit Riot"
66 | Usher - "Nice & Slow"
65 | Brian Setzer Orchestra - "Jump Jive an' Wail"
64 | Blackstreet and Mya F/Mase & Blinky Blink - "Take Me There"
63 | Dave Matthews Band - "Stay (Wasting Time)"
62 | All Saints - "Never Ever"
61 | Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page - "Come With Me"
60 | Dru Hill - "How Deep Is Your Love"
59 | Pearl Jam - "Do The Evolution"
58 | Jermaine Dupri featuring Jay-z - "Money Ain't A Thang"
57 | Limp Bizkit - "Faith"
56 | Eagle Eye Cherry - "Save Tonight"
55 | Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz - "Deja Vu"
54 | Hanson - "Weird"
53 | Brandy - "Have You Ever?"
52 | Method Man - "Judgement Day"
51 | Jewel - "Hands"
50 | Eve 6 - "Inside Out"
49 | DMX - "How's It Goin' Down"
48 | Brian McKnight - "Anytime"
47 | Hole - "Celebrity Skin"
46 | Mya featuring Silkk the Shocker - "Movin' On"
45 | Backstreet Boys - "As Long As You Love Me"
44 | Third Eye Blind - "Jumper"
43 | Janet Jackson - "Go Deep"
42 | Shania Twain - "Your Still The One"
41 | Puff Daddy F/ Notorious B.I.G. & Busta Rhymes - "Victory"
40 | Harvey Danger - "Flagpole Sitta"
39 | Savage Garden - "Truly, Madly, Deeply"
38 | Master P F/Silkk, Fiend, Mya & Mystikal - "Make 'Em Say Ugh"
37 | Fastball - "The Way"
36 | Wyclef Jean F/the Refugee All Stars - "Gone 'Til November"
35 | Alanis Morissette - "Thank U"
34 | Will Smith - "Miami"
33 | Mariah Carey - "My All"
32 | Semisonic - "Closing Time"
31 | N Sync - "I Want You Back"
30 | Janet Jackson - "Together Again"
29 | The Offspring - "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"
28 | Big Punisher featuring Joe - "Still Not A Player"
27 | Usher - "My Way"
26 | Matchbox 20 - "Real World"
25 | Next - "Too Close"
24 | Monica - "The First Night"
23 | Everclear - "Father of Mine"
22 | Jay-z - "Hard Knock Life"
21 | Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"
20 | Backstreet Boys - "Everybody (Backstreets Back)"
19 | Marilyn Manson - "The Dope Show"
18 | Barenaked Ladies - "One Week"
17 | Madonna - "Ray of Light"
16 | Will Smith - "Just The Two of Us"
15 | Korn - "Got The Life"
14 | Jay-z featuring Ja and Amil-lion - "Can I Get A.."
13 | Lauren Hill - "Doo Wap (That Thing)"
12 | Green Day - "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)"
11 | Pras featuring 'Ol Dirty Bastard & Mya - "Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are)"
10 | K-Ci and Jo Jo - "All My Life"
09 | Celine Dion - "My Heart Will Go On"
08 | Beastie Boys - "Intergalactic"
07 | N Sync - "Tearin' Up My Heart"
06 | Will Smith - "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
05 | Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris"
04 | Backstreet Boys - "I'll Never Break Your Heart"
03 | Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?"
02 | Aerosmith - "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"
01 | Brandy & Monica - "The Boy Is Mine"

[automyskin89]

Celine Dion on TRL!?!??!?!?!?

[johnm1120]

Celine was #1 on MTV's top 20 for a few weeks.

[bluenote]

Janet had 3 JAMS on the list!

[automyskin89]

chbigemi said:

Celine was #1 on MTV's top 20 for a few weeks.

never saw that coming..

edit: same for Shania Twain on TRL!

[bluenote]

Hear said:

never saw that coming..

edit: same for Shania Twain on TRL!

Aww youngsters.

TRL has evolved along with the pop format. When Celine and Shania had pop hits, their videos were on TRL. I rememebr "my heart will go on" seemed to be on every 5 minutes. But pop and MTV toook a turn to a more hip hop influenced play list.

[friday]

I think the title is a bit misleading. This was just MTV's year-end countdown for 1998. I'm pretty sure TRL didn't have much, if anything, to do with this list.

I remember watching some of this on Christmas Day of that year. I wish they would do this again at the end of the year. I know they do top 50's each year, but they hardly ever advertise them.

[itsbeenaweek]

Get_Down said:

I rememebr "my heart will go on" seemed to be on every 5 minutes. But pop and MTV toook a turn to a more hip hop influenced play list.

I remember those days, it's almost unbelievable how much music has changed in less than 10 years.

[automyskin89]

Music said:

I remember those days, it's almost unbelievable how much music has changed in less than 10 years.

to crap like 50 Cent..

[Bob]

ahhh, Monica's serious glory days

[JCMF3]

friday said:

I think the title is a bit misleading. This was just MTV's year-end countdown for 1998. I'm pretty sure TRL didn't have much, if anything, to do with this list.

Yes, in fact I don't think TRL as we know it today formally started until late spring/early summer 1998. Before that, I remember watching the show with Carson in some dark room with TVs and he only played the top 5 videos.

[LordEctar]

And didn't TRL use to be called "MTV Live" when they first did the countdown?

[itsbeenaweek]

Hear said:

to crap like 50 Cent..

Yep

[PT08]

Aww the good old days ( well at least for me). It's amazing how a lot of those artists MTV wont even blink at these days

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

And didn't TRL use to be called "MTV Live" when they first did the countdown?

LOL, I even have a book about TRL. Here's what I know about the history:

Sometime in 1997, they create MTV Live in their NYC building, where they have VJs that talk to celebrities and stuff.
In early 1998, the original Total Request came out. It was primetime, with Carson Daly in that dark room counting down the top 5 videos. That summer they brought Total Request outside, though it was still taped. That fall they began the live show Total Request Live, which merged Total Request with MTV Live; that had ended that previous spring. Whew!

Does anyone remember when Tom Green got to #1 with the "Bum Bum Song" and then asked to have his video retired early? And when it took 65 days for a video to be retired?

[MoreAdventurous]

qmaxx04 said:

Aww the good old days ( well at least for me). It's amazing how a lot of those artists MTV wont even blink at these days

Seriously. Music was so much better back then.

Would you ever see a video by Dave Matthews Band, Hole, Everclear, Semisonic, Marilyn Manson, Natalie Imbruglia, or Third Eye Blind on MTV nowadays? Don't think so.

[johnnywest]

I don't like this list. I like American Top 40's Top 100 better.