Yeah, that's pretty much never worked before. I don't understand why a video will be in rotation on MTV, yet not on TRL's voting list. MTV had Audioslave's "Be Yourself", NIN's "The Hand That Feeds" and System of a Down's "B.Y.O.B." in rotation all around the same time in 2005. They were all huge rock hits, so it doesn't make any sense to exclude them from TRL--especially when Foo Fighters and Coldplay got shown [yet never made it].
Yeah, that's pretty much never worked before. I don't understand why a video will be in rotation on MTV, yet not on TRL's voting list. MTV had Audioslave's "Be Yourself", NIN's "The Hand That Feeds" and System of a Down's "B.Y.O.B." in rotation all around the same time in 2005. They were all huge rock hits, so it doesn't make any sense to exclude them from TRL--especially when Foo Fighters and Coldplay got shown [yet never made it].
I guess they select videos that will be popular among teenybopper audiences. They know Nine Inch Nails, Audioslave or System Of A Down wouldn't even make it to the top 10.
I doubt TRL has anything to do to blame with all of this. Voting list or not, if these artists wanted their songs on the countdown, I'm sure they could speak up and TRL would have no problem working things out. If anyone is to be blamed, it's the artists themselves. Any artists in general, not just rock, before I hear anything. ;p
One good example of this is Avenged Sevenfold reportedly saying they did not want their videos played on TRL ever again
Maybe knowing they lost the top spot to Ashlee Simpson was to embarrasing?
They said that before "Beast and the Harlot" got shown and added to the voting list. Maybe they put a hault on votes once that happened, since it never even debuted.
TRL is free advertisement. It'd be silly for an artist to pull their songs from ANY countdown unless it had negative undertones. It's stupid that people rag on TRL sooo bad when it's just a damn TV show. ;p
^and oh yeah, all but 1 of the videos on the countdown is different from the rest usually. They need to take the VSpot approach. About 6 of the videos on the VSPOT countdown are better than the best song on TRL right now.