Development and Release
Many of the songs on the album debuted on Saturday Night Live as SNL Digital Shorts. The tracks that originally premiered as digital shorts on the show were licensed to Universal Republic from NBC and Broadway Video, although Universal Music retains phonographic copyright of these works. The music videos for songs "Lazy Sunday," "Like A Boss, "Jizz in My Pants," "I'm on a Boat," "We Like Sportz," "Boombox," and "Dick in a Box" are all available for viewing in HD on YouTube. The album is also available on vinyl. iTunes and YouTube are the primary distributor of the album's accompanying music videos.
Prior to the album's release, "Jizz in My Pants" sold 76,000 downloads in its first two weeks of availability.
The song "Iran So Far," featuring Adam Levine, was supposed to be the 18th track of the album, but the rights could not be secured because of the Aphex Twin sample used in the track. About this, Taccone said,
| “ | There were some sample-clearance issues. For that song I sampled...“Avril 14th,” and his publishing company wouldn’t give us the rights. They cleared it for SNL. If we ever make a Best of SNL Shorts DVD, we can put it on there, it can be on repeats of SNL, but it wasn’t cleared for the album. asked for an outrageous amount of money. | ” |
Samberg added, “For the record, Aphex Twin was super cool about the whole thing. It was the label .” The Lonely Island is considering doing some live appearances to promote the album but scheduling around Saturday Night Live is a challenge because it takes priority.
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