Get the latest Rolling Stone new music news, song and album reviews, free music downloads, artist videos pictures, playlists and more. The 20 previously known as the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown was a weekly television show that aired on the VH1 cable television network in the United States. Get the latest music news, watch video clips from music shows, events, and exclusive performances from your favorite artists. Discover new music on MTV. VH1 Top 2. 0 Video Countdown. The 2. 0Show logo from 2. Starringsee host list. Country of origin. United States. No. Production. Running time. Release. Original network. VH1. Original release. November 2. 8, 2. VH1-s-100-Greatest-Songs-of-the-90s-610926-68972ca47cf17c03bcf1.jpg' alt='Vh1 Video Songs Download' title='Vh1 Video Songs Download' />The latest news articles from Billboard Magazine, including reviews, business, pop, hiphop, rock, dance, country and more. Get the latest News news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone. See episodes of your favorite VH1 Shows. Watch the latest Music Videos from your favorite music artists. Get uptodate Celebrity and Music News. NVqrGxIUf4bb.jpg' alt='Vh1 Video Songs Download' title='Vh1 Video Songs Download' />External links. Websitewww. The 2. VH1 Top 2. Video Countdown was a weekly television show that aired on the VH1cable television network in the United States. The long running series began in 1. VH1 Top 1. 0 Countdown, as part of VH1s Music First re branding effort. Over the years a variety of hosts counted down the top ten or twenty music videos of the week. The order of countdown was originally decided by a mix of record sales, radio airplay, video spins, message board posts, and conventional mail. The series finale aired unexpectedly without any ceremony on November 2. Drakes Hotline Bling. HistoryeditAs part of VH 1s re branding as VH1 Music First in 1. VH1 Top 1. 0 Countdown, that counted down the top ten music videos played on VH1 each week. A combination of record sales, radio airplay, video spins, message board posts, and conventional mail would decide the order of the countdown. A rotating cast of VJs picked up hosting duties for the show over the years. The series expanded from ten to twenty music videos, becoming the VH1 Top 2. Video Countdown, in October 2. Each week, the show would broadcast from a different location around New York City, often at the Virgin Records store in Union Square. Following a decline in the shows relevance, popular Survivor contestant Jenna Lewis was hired to host the show in 2. After her departure from the show, from 2. Rachel Perry, Bradford How, or Aamer Haleem, but occasionally another VJ would fill in. The series became known as the VSPOT Top 2. Video Countdown on April 7, 2. MTV headquarters in Times Square, and a new host, Matt Pinfield, the venerable VJ from MTV and MTV2 in the 1. MTVs 1. 20 Minutes. In a fundamental change from the shows classic format of compiling the top twenty videos of the week, Internet votes determined the entire order of the countdown. Fan participation was introduced via VSPOT, VH1s online music video outlet. Also as part of the change, VH1 temporarily moved the shows first airing of the week to Friday evenings instead of Saturday mornings. On the week of July 1. Friday evenings. On the September 1. Pinfield announced that after being on the countdown for 2. Before this time, videos could remain on the countdown for as long as seemed appropriate, though almost all were gone by the 2. One notable exception, however, was Keanes Somewhere Only We Know, which remained in the countdown for 2. The video did not reach the top ten and its second wind was caused by the popularity of the VH1. After Pinfield did not show up for a few recordings of the showcitation needed on October 7, 2. Aamer Haleem returned to host the show once again. Beginning the week of February 1. MTV Networks,2 the show left the MTV studios and became broadcast from a different location every week, as it was in the late 1. New Yorks. Grand Central Terminal. Haleem continued to host VH1 Top 2. August 4, 2. 00. 7, when he hosted his final episode. Alison Becker became the new host on August 1. Around this time, the VSPOT online video center was renamed to Video. VH1. com, so the series regained its classic title, VH1 Top 2. Video Countdown. Since then, each episode has usually featured one or two interviews with a celebrity or celebrities of current notoriety who either have a video, movie, or television show of interest at the time. The countdown sometimes has videos high in its countdown despite virtually no radio airplay for the song. One example is Bret Michaels. Go That Far which was directed by Shane Stanley. This video spent twelve weeks on the countdown and bowed out at number seven. The video supported Michaels show Rock of Love which is shown on the network. David Cook and David Archuleta, the winner and runner up of American Idol season 7 were the first guest stars to introduce their own music video at the 1 spot. David Archuleta introduced his video Crush on November 1. Galactic Battlegrounds Download Full Game. The following Countdown on November 2. Cook made a guest appearance to introduce his music video for Light On which was making its Countdown Debut at 1. Shinedown joined the group to introduce a song at 1 when their video for Second Chance was 1 on May 1. Introducing Come Back To Me at 1 on May 3. David Cook the first to introduce two music videos at 1 on two different occasions. Later in 2. 00. 9 Daughtry introduced their music video for No Surprise at 1 on July 1. Jay Sean introduced his music video for Down at 1 on October 1. After four months of no one introducing their own video at 1, Adam Lambert would also join the group as he introduced his video, Whataya Want from Me, at 1 on February 2. At VH1s Winter Wonderland Countdown Special, The Script introduced their video, Breakeven at 1 on March 6, 2. For five months, no one had introduced their song at number one until August 2. B. o. B introduced Airplanes at 1. Two months later, on October 9, Bruno Mars introduced his 1 single, Just the Way You Are, at 1. Following a four to five month absence of an artist introduction at 1, on February 2. Adele introduced Rolling in the Deep at 1. On November 5, 2. Kelly Clarkson introduced Mr. Know It All at 1 after a nine month absence. On March 2. 4, 2. Neon Hitch introduced Ass Back Home at 1. Since then there has been no one else to introduce their own videos at 1 but its likely there will be more by looking at past Countdowns where this has occurred. Becker announced at the end of the January 3, 2. The new host, Jim Shearer, taped his first show on January 5, 2. Virgin Megastore at Union Square in New York, for broadcast on January 1. In 2. 00. 9, VH1 took tighter control of the songs played on the show, with the number of videos available to be voted onto the Top 2. Countdown reduced to less than 3. Countdown. There are also less rivalries regarding songs that try to earn a 1 spot due to the lack of a majority of song rivalries in 2. January 2. 01. 0. On September 1. 8, 2. February 1. 1, 2. On May 1. 4, 2. 01. This makes the countdown the longest running music related program on any channel, ever, in TV history. The countdowns 8. Rolling in the Deep from Adele. In the past you could choose up to twenty videos to vote for at one time by dragging a song into spaces that were numbered 1 2. It was made to where you could only vote for one video at a time and votes were limited to twenty times per day. As of 2. 01. 4, the shows voting was taken away. Jim Shearer hosted his last episode on December 1. From January 1. 0, 2. April 2. 5, 2. 01. On April 1. 2, 2. Shannon Coffey was announced as the new host starting on May 2, 2. The 2. 0. On November 2. The 2. 0 aired without ceremony, and the program was canceled without any publicity or statement as to why. An end of year special aired on December 1. Year End Special hosted by Coffey, but no video of the year was named, and it consisted of a countdown of 2. Viacom completely phasing out all music videos from the VH1 schedule. Random films now air in the shows former timeslot. Special editionseditOccasionally, VH1 aired special editions of the Top 2. Video Countdown Fairway to Heaven The show is condensed to 1. The title is a reference to the song Stairway to Heaven. Lift Ticket to Ride An annual winter ski party event.