Ten years ago, “Weird Al” Yankovic made history. “Mandatory Fun,” his fourteenth and final studio album, hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It became the first comedy album to ever hold the top spot.
FILE - “Weird Al” Yankovic appears at the premiere of “Encanto” in Los Angeles on Nov. 3, 2021. This image released by Gregory Residence Records shows art for Weird Al Yankovic’s single “Polkamania.” FILE - “Weird Al” Yankovic appears at the premiere of “Encanto” in Los Angeles on Nov. 3, 2021. FILE - “Weird Al” Yankovic appears at the premiere of “Encanto” in Los Angeles on Nov. 3, 2021. This image released by Gregory Residence Records shows art for Weird Al Yankovic’s single “Polkamania.
YANKOVIC: It does. You know, I got a pretty good sense 10 years ago of what I wanted to do. It still makes sense to me, in that releasing 12 songs at a time doesn’t feel like the best business model for me, because I like to be topical. And if you have to sit around and wait till you have 12 songs, so you can release them all at once, sometimes that means that a few of those tracks are not going to be quite so topical.
YANKOVIC: I never dreamed it would happen. No. It really took me by surprise, because, as you said, there was no precedent for it. Comedy albums just didn’t do that well on the charts. And the fact that I had a couple top 10 albums, I thought, “Oh, well, great. That’s amazing.” And I saw other comedy artists also have big hit albums, but nobody was making No. 1. Comedy just didn’t do that. So, when I was able to pull that off, against all odds, that was a big deal for me.
AP: Polka medleys are a feature of many of your albums, starting with “Polkas on 45” from 1984’s “In 3-D.” That’s another anniversary — 40 years of that release, which features your famous
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