“Weird Al” Yankovic’s First Number One Album
After over 30 years of releasing hit singles, Weird Al has just achieved his first number one album on the Billboard Top 200, with his new album Mandatory Fun. In just it’s first week, it sold an impressive 104,000 copies. It’s also the first comedy album to top the chart since 1963. In the lead up, he release a series of music videos parodies all over the web, on different sites including The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, Nerdist, College Humor and YouTube.
Listen to the entire album for free on Spotify, or purchase from iTunes