Don't Download This Song

Not to be confused with Download This Song.
"Don't Download This Song"
Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic
from the album Straight Outta Lynwood
A-side"White & Nerdy"
ReleasedAugust 21, 2006
RecordedJuly 5, 2005
GenreComedy pop, gospel
Length3:54
LabelVolcano
Songwriter(s)"Weird Al" Yankovic
Producer(s)"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology
"You're Pitiful"
(2006) 		"Don't Download This Song"
(2006) 		"White & Nerdy"
(2006)
Straight Outta Lynwood track listing
12 tracks
  1. "White & Nerdy"
  2. "Pancreas"
  3. "Canadian Idiot"
  4. "I'll Sue Ya"
  5. "Polkarama!"
  6. "Virus Alert"
  7. "Confessions Part III"
  8. "Weasel Stomping Day"
  9. "Close But No Cigar"
  10. "Do I Creep You Out"
  11. "Trapped in the Drive-Thru"
  12. "Don't Download This Song"
Music video
"Don't Download This Song" on YouTube

"Don't Download This Song" is the first single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's 12th studio album Straight Outta Lynwood. The song was released exclusively on August 21, 2006 as a digital download. It is a style parody of "We Are the World", "Voices That Care", "Hands Across America", "Heal the World" and other similar charity songs. The song "describes the perils of online music file-sharing" in a tongue-in-cheek manner.[1] To further the sarcasm, the song was freely available for streaming and to legally download in DRM-free MPEG fileformat at Weird Al's Myspace page, a standalone website,[2] as well as his YouTube channel.

  1. ^ Bill Plympton Studio Archived November 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Weird Al- Dont Download This Song". 2007-02-26. Archived from the original on 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2022-12-13.