Editing Off the Deep End (section)

===Commercial performance===
''Off the Deep End'' was released April 1992, and was subsequently named the Best Selling Comedy Recording of the year by [[Music Business Association|National Association of Recording Merchandisers]] (NARM).<ref name="awards"/> ''Off the Deep End'' was certified gold. On January 25, 2006, the album was certified platinum.<ref name="riaa">{{Cite web | title = Gold & Platinum – Search Results: 'Weird Al' Yankovic | publisher = Recording Industry Association of America | url = https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=weird+al#search_section | access-date = April 17, 2011 }}</ref> The album's lead-off single, "Smells Like Nirvana" was a hit on the Billboard Hot 100, charting at number 35.<ref name="awards"/><ref name="allmusicchart"/> It also charted on [[Hot 100 Singles Sales]] at number 12<ref>{{Cite book| last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits | publisher = Billboard Books | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tjQeP-BHy78C&q=Billboard+Weird+Al+Smells+Like+Nirvana&pg=PA691 | pages = 691 | isbn = 9780823074990 | access-date = June 26, 2010}}</ref> and the US ''Billboard'' [[Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart at number 35.<ref name="allmusicchart">{{cite web| title = Weird Al Yankovic – Charts & Awards – Billboard Singles | website = [[AllMusic]] | url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p140212/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} | access-date = September 12, 2010}}</ref> Both the album and hit single helped propel Yankovic into the 1990s.<ref name="allmusic"/> As of 2014, sales in the United States have exceeded 1,057,000 copies, according to [[Nielsen SoundScan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecomicscomic.com/2014/05/19/comedy-wins-none-of-the-2014-billboard-music-awards-but-all-of-the-focus-of-this-weeks-magazine-issue/|title=Comedy Wins None of the 2014 Billboard Music Awards But All of the Focus of this Week's Magazine Issue|author=McCarthy, Sean|date=May 19, 2014|access-date=August 31, 2017|work=The Comic's Comic}}</ref>