On this day in 2008, TRL had its last hurrah.

After 10 years and 2,247 episodes, the MTV afternoon staple that was there waiting for kids to come home from school and helped launch the careers of many of the stars now packing them into football stadiums called it quits.

Would the likes of Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Britney Spears have had the careers they had without the ultra-poppy Total Request Live pumped into screens around the world daily? Maybe.

But when you ask yourself how the new acts of today about their climb, you can bet they would have loved to have had a launching pad like MTV's TRL.

The finale began with Beyonce declaring "Total Finale Live stars now!" and then reeled off medley of "If I Were A Boy" into "Single Ladies" and then "Crazy In Love."

Quite a way to kick off an adieu.

"TRL did a lot for Snoop Dogg as far as putting him in contact with his fans, directly," Snoop Dogg, speaking in the third person told the Associated Press back in 2008.

"The exposure was huge," 50 Cent told AP when MTV chose to pull the plug. "The other formats are great, too, but this is absolutely the biggest one. So having it go away is definitely going to change the focus."

"It's sad that it's going away because I literally grew up watching TRL," an 18 year-old Taylor Swift said that day. She was recruited to get a yearbook signed for MTV.

In June, TRL asked Taylor to be a guest host for a day.

She chatted it up with Rihanna and Verne Troyer and signed autographs for the fans on the street. This isn't the type of thing American Bandstand ever did, which is one reason the kids loved the show.

While on the air, live, with TRL's longtime host Carson Daly, Diddy came close to tears talking about "the bittersweet moment" of the show's demise. The artist formerly known as Puff Daddy, moved a lot of units himself and of his label mates at Bad Boy Records thanks to the popular show.

Another unique feature about the show was it not only had a small studio audience of young fans who could ask questions of the visiting artists, but down below in Times Square fans could scream up to their favorite musicians.

On the night of the finale, Fall Out Boy, another recipient of the TRL push, rocked out to the kids out on the streets.

Afterwards they posed with Taylor, Snoop, and some of their peers.

TRL loved pop music so of course it embraced Britney Jean Spears who was always more than accommodating with her time to pop into the studio to tell them (and her fans) about what she was up to and what new projects she was working on.

TRL also loved lists. On that final show they asked their audience to rank the Top 10 most iconic videos the show had aired.

Britney's "...Baby One More Time" beat out Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" and the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" for the top spot.

“This is like a big high school reunion in a way,” Justin Timberlake said during the finale. “We kind of all grew up together.”

And grow they did.

Nowadays you don't see Beyonce or Taylor or even JT rubbing shoulders with fans on the streets of Midtown, Manhattan. They're grew as big as stars could grow.

Taylor, for example is packing them in enormous soccer stadiums in South America. Check her site for miracle tickets.

Beyoncé's concert movie, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, begins screening in exactly two weeks. Grab your tickets on her website.

And Britney's memoir, The Woman In Me, is the #1 nonfiction book of the NY Times Bestsellers list. Go to the NY Times to get yours before your friends tell you all the juicy details.