The song appeared on modern rock radio stations, and was a hit on MTV; it appeared on MTV's alternative music program "120 minutes" and "TRL", in which it debuted at number eight on 22 February 1999. The song was perceived as the band's gateway to success, allowing them to tour in Ozzfest. and in the Family Values Tour and led to the rerelease of the song "Stitches". The song appeared in "Spin Magazine's" "Hits of the Year" for 1999. "Blue Monday" is also said to have helped pave the way for the cyberpunk trend, as best exemplified in the popularity of the 1999 science fiction film "The Matrix", which appeared soon afterwards. In an interview of Joel Gallen in "Los Angeles Magazine", the music supervisors were discussing the use of Orgy's "Blue Monday" for a football scene in "Not Another Teen Movie" (2001), among others. Stating that the song "had energy", they eventually selected it for the movie, and it appeared in the soundtrack as well.