Headline News (song) The Crash Test Dummies themselves were very pleased with the final result and even performed the song with Yankovic in concert twice. "Headline News" charted at number four on the "Billboard" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, making it Yankovic's first single to chart domestically since 1992's "Smells Like Nirvana". While Yankovic was writing the original songs for a new album—which was later released in 1996 as "Bad Hair Day"—his label, Scotti Brothers Records, insisted that he release a new record in order to meet monetary projections for the fourth fiscal quarter of the year. Yankovic, however, explained that he
Headline Headline The headline is the text indicating the nature of the article below it. The large type "front page headline" did not come into use until the late 19th century when increased competition between newspapers led to the use of attention-getting headlines. It is sometimes termed a news "hed", a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type. Headlines in English often use a set of grammatical rules known as headlinese, designed to meet stringent