by this year i had mostly tuned out of this show, annoyed by how many videos they'd only show ~5 seconds of before moving onto some random other non-video segment. i know for sure that mtv was still airing blocks of videos during daytime or at least evening hours with semi-decent regularity in mid-to-late 2001 (one evening i recorded ginuwine's "differences" video onto a vhs tape, of all things), but idk if that was still true this year -- regardless i imagine they had been cutting back on such blocks for a while by then. as was the case for every single year after 1999, this end-of-summer special featured 10 fewer videos than the previous summer's had, at just 20.
there are a lot of songs i do not recall from here! like, i am almost 100% sure i never heard the enrique song at #7 even once. that one charted below the hot 100 in america, but then again the britney single fared similarly, but i was vaguely aware of it (probably b/c of the austin powers movie).
the source i'm using sez that both parts of "i need a girl" were combined into one position + that for the special they aired a live performance clip of diddy from a different mtv special (presumably both parts), so i have listed them together here, altho they are obv rather different. the one that was a hit specifically during that summer was part 2, but i'm sure part 1 was still fresh on people's memories too.
i didn't actually watch this special save for the last few minutes to see what would be #1. i remember seeing the top 3 and thinking, yeah, sounds about right. i am not sure if they never aired this special again in 2003 or later, but i can't find a record of such online and i certainly wouldn't have tuned in anymore by that point.
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| 14. Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight | 18 |
| 1. Nelly - Hot In Herre | 8 |
| 13. Brandy - Full Moon | 6 |
| 2. Avril Lavigne - Complicated | 2 |
| 3. Eminem - Without Me | 2 |
| 8. P. Diddy ft. Usher & Loon / Loon, Mario Winans & Tammy Ruggieri - I Need A Girl (Part One) / (Part Two) | 1 |
| 7. Enrique Iglesias - Don't Turn Off The Lights | 1 |
| 6. Ashanti - Happy | 1 |
| 4. Britney Spears ft. Pharrell Williams - Boys (Co-Ed Remix) | 1 |
| 10. Shakira - Objection (Tango) | 1 |
| 11. Irv Gotti Presents The Inc. ft. Ja Rule, Ashanti, Vita & Charli Baltimore - Down 4 U | 0 |
| 19. New Found Glory - My Friends Over You | 0 |
| 18. 3LW ft. P. Diddy & Loon - I Do (Wanna Get Close To You) | 0 |
| 17. Paulina Rubio - Don't Say Goodbye | 0 |
| 5. B2K - Gots Ta Be | 0 |
| 16. Will Smith ft. Trā-Knox - Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head) | 0 |
| 15. Mario - Just A Friend 2002 | 0 |
| 12. Vanessa Carlton - Ordinary Day | 0 |
| 9. Korn - Here To Stay | 0 |
| 20. Jennifer Lopez ft. Nas - I'm Gonna Be Alright | 0 |
― dyl, Thursday, 11 August 2022 05:36 (three years ago)