Almost 1/3 of a million page views

The Music Weird, everyone's favorite disseminator of irrelevant and unwanted music information, reached an impressive milestone this week when it racked up over 300,000 page views.

That's quite an achievement for a music blog that specializes in information that no one is looking for about music that few people care about. 

In celebration of this inexplicable milestone, let's look back at some of the least popular posts in The Music Weird's history. 

Rebecca Black's "BFF You Make Me LOL": What happened?

Published in 2015, this incisive work of investigative reporting has garnered only 186 page views. I think that's odd, because I was extremely interested in finding out what happened to the rumored single "BFF You Make Me LOL" by Rebecca Black, who first made pop music history by reaching the Billboard Hot 100 with "Friday," a weird vanity single that was recorded at one of those services where amateurs record hacky songs as part of a vanity package deal.

Victorian-era trade cards: mandolins and lutes

Back in the Victorian era, some companies issued these somewhat interesting trade cards, which were collectable printed cards, kind of like baseball cards but with advertising. I featured some of them that had musical images, like pictures of mandolins and lutes, and the world yawned. This particular post has had merely 177 page views in four years.

Jonathan Winters' brief foray into music (1958)

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Jonathan Winters is a pretty well-known comedian. I liked him in the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and the 1966 film The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! So I thought it was pretty interesting that he recorded this novelty single in 1958, but apparently I was one of the few, because the post got only 243 page views in four years.

Cristy Lane's first record: "Janie Took My Place" (1966)

I'll admit that I don't expect anyone to be as interested in Cristy Lane as I am. I've not only written a few blog posts about her but also produced this CD of her greatest country hits. Nevertheless, I was unprepared for the thundering apathy that met this 2015 post about her debut single, which has had only 191 page views. This is alleged to be a record that went to #1 at one radio station in my hometown of Muncie, Indiana.

Tennessee Ernie Ford on the cover of Holiday Inn magazine, 1971

You'd think that the late, great Tennessee Ernie Ford appearing on the cover of the Holiday Inn's in-house magazine that was given away to people who stayed at the Holiday Inn back in the day would generate more interest, but this post about that fascinating and highly collectible magazine issue attracted only 182 views in four years for some unknown reason.

Jerry Springer sings "Save the Terminal" (1973)

Here's a post that seemingly had it all: Jerry Springer, the host of perhaps the most notorious and salacious daytime talk show, released a weird protest folk song in 1973. I mean, what more could you want? And yet the post garnered only 109 page views in three years' time. I imagine that Springer's final thought on this matter was: WTF?

Way Passed Normal: The "Other" Cassette

If you're looking for reasons to accuse me of selfishly writing articles that appeal to no one but me, then look no further than this post about an obscure Chicago cassette release that I like for perverse reasons and that few other people will ever relate to or care about in any way for any reason.

I'm passionate about this cassette, which is of such intense disinterest to the rest of humanity that my blog post about it—the only blog post in history about this cassette—has received only 101 page views in over two years.

What's the moral lesson?

There is no moral lesson. I'll continue to write stupid blog posts about music that no one cares about, while three of my old blog posts continue to generate almost a quarter of all traffic.