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Here Comes The 123s They Might Be Giants Download

Here Come The 123s Studio album by They Might Be Giants
Release engagement	February 5, 2008 Release details / collectors: Testify \| Hibernate	Tracks	24	Final album	The Else
Label	Idlewild / Disney Sound	Length	44:32	Side by side album	Here Comes Scientific discipline

Here Come The 123s is the thirteenth anthology from They Might Exist Giants, and the ring'due south third total-length children'south album. The release is a DVD/CD set, the sequel (or prequel, according to Flansburgh) to 2005's Here Come The ABCs DVD/CD set. It is the band's first album to have won a Grammy Award.

1 Buy
ii Clarification
- 2.1 Background
- 2.two Videos
- 2.3 Sales
- two.4 Accolades
3 CD & DVD Rails Listings
- 3.1 Bonus Tracks from Goggle box (all editions)
- 3.2 Amazon.com Exclusive CD & DVD Bonus Tracks
  - 3.two.1 CD Track Listing
  - 3.2.2 DVD Runway Listing
4 Trivia
5 Gallery

Purchase [edit]

Seller	Format	Cost	Link
iTunes	AAC		N/A
iTunes	AAC/MP4		N/A

Description [edit]

Background [edit]

The title "Here Come the 123s" had been mentioned (ofttimes jokingly) in several interviews since the release of Here Come the ABCs, but was get-go officially revealed equally the title for an upcoming project by the band on tmbg.com in November 2006. According to an Apr 9, 2007 Billboard article, the DVD was slated to contain "an hour of original music plus videos specially deputed by the duo," much similar the Here Come The ABCs DVD. On Baronial 20, more information about the projection was made public past Amazon.com and Disney Sound, including the set's release date, encompass artwork, and track listing. The album was originally set to exist released on October 2, 2007, just this engagement was later revised to Feb five, 2008. The delay may have been related to the fact that the ring was in the midst of their 2007 fall bout promoting The Else.

Videos [edit]

Disney'southward network targeted at younger children, Playhouse Disney (now known equally Disney Junior), began airing videos from Here Come the 123s in November 2007. The rotation included "One Everything" and "Zeroes". Over the adjacent few weeks, a wider choice of videos also began airing. In Jan 2008, Disney and the band began releasing weekly episodes of the They Might Be Giants Friday Night Family Podcast, which featured one video per week from the 123s, and sometimes videos from the ABCs. The podcast was hosted by The Boob Johns, the Johns' puppet alter egos. These puppets were constructed by Robin Goldwasser.

Several of the videos characteristic blitheness by artists that have collaborated with TMBG on prior projects, including The Brothers Chaps ("Figure Eight"), Divya Srinivasan ("High Five!"), and Hine Mizushima ("The Secret Life Of Six"). In addition, The Puppet Johns and Deeply Felt Boob Theater (also Goldwasser creations) make several appearances in the DVD's music videos.

Sales [edit]

A chart showing the performance of Here Come The 123s on the Billboard Kids and Net charts through 2008.

The 123s spent eight weeks on the Billboard Top Cyberspace Albums chart and nineteen weeks on the Billboard Top Kid Audio chart. Information technology also spent one short week at slot #172 on The Billboard 200, making it TMBG'due south first children's anthology to crack that chart. Information technology peaked at #9 on the Top Child Audio chart, despite spending viii weeks on the superlative of Amazon'southward sales charts for Children'south Music. As of July 2008, it had sold 40,000 copies co-ordinate to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sales of the anthology helped They Might Be Giants to come in at #9 on "Billboard'southward Year-End Top Kids Artists of 2008" (based on album sales). Strong Amazon sales of the album also fueled a resurgence of interest in Here Come up The ABCs, which climbed back to #2 on the Amazon Children's Music charts at ane point.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA, in the Video Longform format, on January 26, 2012^[ane]. To achieve certification in this category, the DVD has sold more than than 50,000 copies.

Accolades [edit]

Later that twelvemonth, the anthology won a "Silver Honor" at the 2008 Parents' Choice Awards in the "Music" category. In 2009 it earned TMBG their 2d Grammy, winning the "Best Musical Album For Children" category.

John Linnell says a few words onstage later on the band wins its 2d Grammy

The band, minus Flansburgh, displaying their Grammys in the press room

CD & DVD Track Listings [edit]

#	Title	Length	Guitar Tab
1	Here Come The 123s	0:08
2	Zeroes	i:06
3	1 Everything	two:52
4	Number Two	2:19
5	Triops Has Three Optics	ii:35
6	Flat Iv	i:21
7	High Five!	two:23	N/A
8	The Hugger-mugger Life Of Six	ii:01	Northward/A
9	Seven	2:09	N/A
10	7 Days of the Week (I Never Go To Work)	1:54
11	Effigy 8	two:36
12	Pirate Girls Nine	i:21
13	Nine Bowls Of Soup	2:12
xiv	Ten Mississippi	0:51	N/A
fifteen	I Dozen Monkeys	1:34
16	Viii Hundred And Thirteen Mile Auto Trip	0:57
17	Infinity CD only	iii:thirteen
18	I Tin Add	2:04
19	Nonagon	i:23	N/A
20	Fifty-fifty Numbers	two:35
21	Ooh La! Ooh La!	1:56

Bonus Tracks from Television set (all editions) [edit]

#	Title	Length
22	Middle Of The Band	1:39
23	Hot Dog!	ii:29
24	Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme	0:57

Amazon.com Sectional CD & DVD Bonus Tracks [edit]

CD Track List [edit]

#	Title	Length	Guitar Tab
25	One Two Iii Iv	1:12
26	John Lee Supertaster (Live)	three:08	Northward/A
27	Bed Bed Bed Bed Bed (Alive)	2:xiii	N/A

DVD Track List [edit]

#	Title	Length	Lyrics	Guitar Tab
25	One 2 Three 4	1:12

Trivia [edit]

The Amazon.com exclusive version of Here Come up the 123s includes three bonus CD tracks ("Ane Two Three Four," "John Lee Supertaster (Alive)," and "Bed, Bed, Bed (Live)") and a bonus music video on the DVD ("One Two Three 4").
At the August one, 2007 Bowery Ballroom bear witness, TMBG's rendition of "Bed Bed Bed Bed Bed" was recorded as an Amazon-exclusive bonus track for the CD. The Amazon bonus rail live version of "John Lee Supertaster" is from the August 14, 2004 San Fransisco performance.
The songs "Here Come The 123s," "Ten Mississippi," and "Nonagon" are on the track listing on the disc but not on the back cover'south rail listing.
An official press release for Here Come the 123s is archived here.