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Hit List
Also known asYTV's Hit List
GenreMusic
Presented byDanielle McGimsie
Rob Fournier
Exan Auyoung
Leslie Bosacki
Aashna Patel
"Tarzan" Dan Freeman
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time60 minutes
Production companyGRC Productions
Original release
NetworkYTV
Release6 June 1991 (1991-06-06)[citation needed] –
3 July 2005 (2005-07-03)[1]

The Hit List (aka Hit List or YTV's Hit List) was a music video television program that aired on YTV, a Canadian specialty television network aimed at children. The series first started in 1991, hosted by Tarzan Dan and had 14 seasons in all. The first 6 seasons of The Hit List were hosted by "Tarzan" Dan Freeman, while there were numerous hosts to follow from Aashna Patel, Leslie Bosacki and Exan Auyoung to Rob Fournier and Danielle McGimsie. As of fall 2005, The Hit List went on an indefinite hiatus. On the air, it was claimed it was due to the increase in more mature music videos that they are unable to show, naming I'm a Slave 4 U, Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake song) and Dirrty as examples. The show was later cancelled.[citation needed]

At The Hit List's peak, two compilation CDs were released by YTV and MCA in 1994[2] and 1996,[3] each featuring pop, R&B, rap, and dance songs aired on the show's countdown. The later Big Fun Party Mix compilation album series, which debuted in 2000 through Universal,[4] can be seen as a spiritual successor to the Hit List CDs.

The celebrities include "Weird Al" Yankovic, Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilera, *NSYNC, Take That, The Smashing Pumpkins, Spice Girls, Five, No Doubt, Britney Spears, Blur, Kim Stockwood, The Moffatts, Hanson, O-Town, Eiffel 65, Aaron Carter, Shawn Desman, Lillix, Simple Plan, Avril Lavigne, Busted, Rachel Stevens, Clay Aiken, Alanis Morissette (back when she was Alanis) and many others.

References

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  1. ^ "YTV monthly CRTC Television Program Logs - February 2000 to September 2007". September 2007.
  2. ^ "The Hit List (1994, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  3. ^ "The Hit List Volume 2 (1996, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. ^ "YTV Big Fun Party Mix (2000, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
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