You may have loved this song when it dropped, but Weird Al is fuming at iTunes for dropping the ball. In a blog post titled What I Learned, Al highlights the merits and demerits of his latest digital experiment.
The song debuted at number 104 – “bubbling under” the Hot 100 chart. Not great, but – considering the delayed release, lack of iTunes promotion and absence of a music video – not terrible either. It also was on the Pop 100 chart (!) at number 67, and came in at a respectable 56 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. As to why iTunes has the single listed as “Pop” instead of “Comedy”? You got me there. I asked them to change it a week and a half ago. But you know, changing stuff is hard.
I’m not sure that I’d agree to give iTunes any kind of an exclusivity window in the future…It seems like the amount of publicity I received from them didn’t really compensate for the sales I lost by not also having my song available elsewhere.”
[Via: Prohiphop]
