[5] Regardless, toward the end of its runtime it was described in Digital Spy as "UK and Ireland's favourite music request show".
[6] MTV Select would later launch regional versions in Spain, France, Poland, and Romania.
Hosted by Amanda MacKay and Brian Adler and taped in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show featured interviews with bands and singers, video requests, and a countdown of the ten songs that received the most votes at the Select website, starting at Number 10 on Monday and ending at Number 1 on Friday.
In 2001, the program was noted as one of the ways MTV hoped to capitalize on the "text messaging mania".
It was said that the benefit of the interactive format, compared to the internet, is that viewers aren't dragged away from the TV.