'Total Request Live' aired the weekday music video countdown from 1998 to 2008 Kelly Wynne has been a TV writer at PEOPLE digital since 2021. Her work has been seen in Newsweek, where she acted as a ...

For those of a certain age, the letters TRL mean a great deal. The super-popular block of fan-voted songs and music videos on MTV known as Total Request Live, which launched in 1998 and was programmed ...

I officially feel ancient with Carson Daly celebrating TRL's 25th anniversary. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. TRL tallied votes ...

Total Request Live was a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continued to concentrate on reality-based programming.

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During a more primitive era of the Internet, before fan armies and stan wars, there was the Backstreet Boys eliciting shrieks on TRL, the most accomplished members of a teenybopper tidal wave that was ...

The summer of 1981 was winding down when a new cable channel debuted, and for a long time, MTV was the epicenter for everything worthwhile in pop culture. MTV was the ultimate game changer. But in ...

As Thanksgiving Day approached in 1998, the world had no idea they were about to witness the metamorphosis of a former Mouseketeer into a global sensation. This wasn’t just any video debut — it was a ...

As Carson Daly turns 50, take a look back on some of his most iconic TRL moments Todd Plitt/Getty Happy birthday, Carson Daly! Though he's hardly aged a day, the former MTV star and current Today ...