7-476: The Much Countdown (also known as the Much Top 30 Countdown , and formerly known as The MuchMusic Top 20 Countdown ) is an hour-long musical television program, usually hosted by a VJ , that aired on Canadian music television station MuchMusic from 1996 to 2017. Countdown was one of the longest-running programs that has aired on MuchMusic since the channel's debut. Originally sponsored by Coca-Cola , it
14-602: A video lounge and dance floor separate levels. Sound & Vision , however, credits the creation of the VJ to comedian and former DJ himself Rick Moranis , who would introduce music clips on television under his Gerry Todd persona on Second City Television . The sketches ran before MTV debuted in the United States. "There had been no such thing" up until that point, confirmed Moranis' SCTV castmate Martin Short , so "the joke
21-468: The bar and dance floor. When Hurrah invited Aldighieri to show her experimental film, she asked if she could develop a video to complement the DJ music so that then her film would become part of a club ambiance and not be seen as a break in the evening. The experiment led to a full-time job there. Several months later the future MTV founders patronized the club, interviewed her, and took notes. She told them she
28-509: The term " disc jockey ", "DJ" ("deejay") as used in radio. Music Television ( MTV ) popularized the term in the 1980s (see List of MTV VJs ). The MTV founders got their idea for their VJ host personalities from studying Merrill Aldighieri's club. Aldighieri worked in the New York City nightclub Hurrah, which was the first to make a video installation as a prominent featured component of the club's design with multiple monitors hanging over
35-537: Was a VJ, the term she invented with a staff member to put on her first pay slip. Her video jockey memoirs list the live music she documented during her VJ breaks. Her method of performing as a VJ consisted of improvising live clips using a video camera, projected film loops, and switching between two U-matic video decks. She solicited the public to collaborate. The club showcased many video artists, who contributed raw and finished works. Her work also incorporated stock footage. Aldighieri next worked at Danceteria, which had
42-473: Was known for the first several years as the Coca-Cola Countdown . The program aired a playlist of the most well-known songs in the mainstream . The order that the videos were played went from No. 30 to No. 1, although only about 10-12 of those videos were actually played. Most of the videos that went unplayed were older videos that were fading off the charts, or less popular videos. A video that
49-627: Was moving down the chart or was in the same spot as that previous week would in general not get played. Every video debuting on the chart was played. A music video that reached the No. 1 spot usually stayed there for 1–2 weeks. Here is a listing of number ones from 1996 onwards: VJ (media personality) A video jockey (abbreviated VJ or sometimes veejay ) is an announcer or host who introduces music videos and live performances on commercial music television channels such as MTV , VH1 , MuchMusic and Channel V . The term "video jockey" comes from
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