Weird Al Tops The Billboard Chart

"Weird" Al Yankovic has the number one bestselling album in all the land.

The parody singer has his career first number one album with "Mandatory Fun," his latest and perhaps last traditional album.

"Mandatory Fun" is the first comedy set to top the chart since 1963, and logs the largest sales week for a comedy album since 1994, according to Billboard.

The record was released July 15 through Way Moby and RCA Records, and sold 104,000 copies in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was promoted by a heavily hyped daily viral video campaign that launched Monday, July 14.

Starting with his parody of Pharrell's "Happy," Yankovic released eight music videos for the album through the week on various sites, like The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, Nerdist, College Humor and YouTube.

Media played along and Yankovic's album received a large amount of press.

"Mandatory" is the first comedy album to top the Billboard 200 since Allan Sherman's "My Son, the Nut" spent eight weeks at No. 1 beginning on the chart dated Aug. 31, 1963.

A couple of comedy sets came close since then, including Steve Martin's No. 2-peaking "A Wild and Crazy Guy" back in 1978 and a pair of No. 2 Cheech & Chong titles in the early 1970s.