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Weird Al Scores His First No. 1 Album

07/24/2014
. (Radio.com) Weird Al Yankovic has scored a triumph with his new album, which is his first to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as revealed yesterday (July 23). Yankovic broke the news on his Twitter this morning, expressing joy at finally scoring his first chart-topping album on the general U.S. chart, selling 104,000 copies in his first week according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. He's previously scored Nos. 1 on the comedy albums chart.

"If you'd told me 30 years ago this would happen, I never would've believed it," the musician tweeted. "If you'd told me 2 WEEKS ago, I never would've believed it."

He added: "I'm so pleased everybody is enjoying the album, and I'm enormously grateful for everyone's support. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU."

While the official news story from Billboard is still being awaited, it's thought that Yankovic's No. 1 is not just his first on the chart. Billboard notes it's believed that Mandatory Fun is the first comedy album to hit No. 1 on the chart in 51 years, dating all the way back to Allan Sherman's My Son, the Nut in 1963. more on this story

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