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While the death rattle has been audible for quite some time, Viacom only officially announced Total Request Live's retirement in September, and yesterday they officially faded to black.

It's been a long 10 years since the show first debuted, and this weekend, the last drops of actual music will finally be sucked out of MTV. The daily countdown show, which (like it or not) was a gateway for most successful acts over the last decade, will celebrate the end of its run this Sunday night at 8 p.m. The show will feature original host Carson Daly, along with his eventual replacement Damien Fahey steering the ship, and an actually impressive lineup of guests and performers, whose careers might not exist was it not for this show. From Limp Bizkit and the Backstreet Boys to Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy, this show guided an entire generation towards their pop idols, for better or worse. So while the reactions of many may be may be a hearty good riddance, nobody can deny the influence this show once had. Certainly worth tuning in, if only to see off the end of an era.

MTV is finally canceling their TRL (Total Request Live) series, after rumors have been circulating about its demise for over a year. Variety reports that the show, which has had a long shelf life as is—lasting over a decade—"will depart in mid-November with a two-hour Saturday-afternoon special. Its departure will coincide with the return of another music vid-themed show, Feedback New MTV (FNMTV)." The screams in Times Square have been slowly fading since the show's beginning, but will they now be muted forever?