Fill in the blanks: According to Nielsen Soundscan, anthology sales are down ___ percent and advance are down ___ percent. Did you assumption 15 and 13? Congratulations! You accept been paying absorption to 2014's abnormally constant download-business collapse. Your prize, a beautifully awakening RIAA platinum-album acceptance plaque, will access any day.
Readers' Poll: The 10 Best 'Weird Al' Videos
WEIRDEST COMEBACK EVER: I accept to giving up on "Weird Al" Yankovic afterwards an adverse aeon in the backward Nineties if my 11-year-old nephew insisted on audibly singing his parodies, again acclimation me if I aback sang the originals instead. But Al's new Mandatory Fun is decidedly abundant - "I'll fix your accouterments if your toilets overflow," he sings on "Handy," a circuit of Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" - and his video-a-day business attack should serve as a music-business chiral for all artists putting out albums. It's aswell the aboriginal Number One for Yankovic in his 31-year career, with Fun track "NOW That's What I Call Polka!" (notably not one of the eight videos released) topping Spotify's Viral Charts in seven countries. Unbelievably, Mandatory Fun, which awash 104,000 copies, is the aboriginal Number One ball anthology back Allan Sherman's My Son, the Nut in 1963. (That's the one with "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah," and, yes, the anthology is accessible on Spotify.)
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER-OFFICIALLY: The top 10 was bedeviled by debuts as Jason Mraz (Number Two, 81,000 copies), Rise Against (The Black Market, Number Three, 53,000) and Kidz Bop (Number Four, 46,000) all abutting Weird Al. Aside from the singles accumulating NOW (Number Eight, 23,000) and Blake Shelton (Based On a True Story . . ., Number 10 with a 386 percent sales access acknowledgment mostly to $5.99 iTunes prices), abounding albums alone acutely this week, with Frozen, Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour, Ed Sheeran's x and Trey Songz' Trigga accident sales in the double-digit percentages. These are declared to be our better pop albums! Maybe artists will get fed up anon and stop absolution them.
OVER TO YOU, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER: Three affidavit Becky G's "Shower" could be the summer's sleeper hit: 1) It was produced by Dr. Luke; 2) it has 3.7 actor YouTube angle and 14.6 actor Spotify streams; 3) it mentions the Fourth of July; 4) it mentions dancing in the mirror and singing in the shower; 5) "la-da-di, la-da-da, la-da-da"; 6) it jumped 18 spots, to Number 25, on the Ultimate Chart, which measures online belief and generally predicts hit singles; 6) Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea notwithstanding, it's July 23rd and we haven't accomplished a absolutely all-embracing summer single.
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