The Dutch music show Countdown was a popular music show from 1978 to the early '90s, broadcast by the (in that time public) broadcasting system Veronica. It ranked as the top music show in the whole of Europe. Due to the popularity this show, the career of one of its hosts throughout the entire period, Adam Curry

Adam Curry

Adam Clark Curry is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site...

, rose like a star. Other hosts included Simone Walraven, Jasper Faber, Erik de Zwart

Erik de Zwart

Erik de Zwart is a Dutch radio and television maker, former D.J., former Music Box, The Music Factory and MTV V.J...

 and Wessel van Diepen

Wessel van Diepen

Wessel van Diepen , was a Dutch radio host for Radio 538 and is the most successful dance-pop music producer in Dutch history....

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A special English-language edition of Countdown was produced for pan-European music channel Music Box in 1987, with presenters Adam Curry

Adam Curry

Adam Clark Curry is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site...

 and Erik de Zwart.