What the Hell Happened to Me? explained

What the Hell Happened to Me?
Type:	studio
Artist:	Adam Sandler
Cover:	Adam Sandler-What the Hell Happened to Me (album cover).jpg
Released:	February 13, 1996
Genre:	Comedy
Length:	74:51
Label:	Warner Bros.
Producer:	Adam Sandler
Prev Title:	They're All Gonna Laugh at You!
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	What's Your Name?
Next Year:	1997

What the Hell Happened to Me? is the second studio album by Adam Sandler, released by Warner Bros. on 13 February 1996.^[1] It contains the official recording of "The Chanukah Song" (recorded live at University of California, Santa Barbara), which has become a holiday staple and one of Sandler's best-known works. It reached No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #25 on the US Modern Rock charts. It spent 57 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at No. 18.^[2] It has been certified double-platinum, and as of 2011, has sold over 2,124,000 copies in the US, making it the best-selling comedy album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.^[3] The "Excited Southerner" skits on the album are early versions of what would end up being Sandler's character 'Bobby Boucher' in 1998's The Waterboy.

Sandler went on a 21-day US tour to support the album,^[4] complete with a live backing band, including guitarist Waddy Wachtel. The live performance from June 29, 1996, in the style of a rock concert, was aired as an hour long special on HBO, complete with covers of Foghat's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and Bruce Springsteen's "Out in the Street", as well as a previously unreleased Halloween song, with a special appearance from fellow Saturday Night Live alum Chris Farley, as well as songs from Sandler's tenure at SNL, and cuts from the album and Sandler's first album, They're All Gonna Laugh at You!.^[5] The concert has since been uploaded to YouTube, where it has received 156 million views since March 2017. The success of the tour and HBO special also led to Sandler's next album, the mostly-songs What's Your Name?, in 1997.

Featured personnel

• Adam Sandler – All Tracks
• Allen Covert – Tracks 1, 2, 10, 17, 19
• Frank Coraci – Tracks 2, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19
• Judd Apatow – Tracks 7, 11, 17, 19

Charts

Songs chart positions

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Year	Peak chart positions		Certifications
Hot 100 ^[7]	Adult Pop ^[8]
"The Chanukah Song"	1996	80	28	RIAA: Gold^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Allmusic.com - What The Hell Happened to Me?. AllMusic. 20 December 2010.
2. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=adam sandler|chart=all}} BIllboard.com - What the Hell Happened to Me?]. 20 December 2010.
3. Web site: Week Ending May 22, 2011. Albums: 21 = 9 + 16 - Chart Watch. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110529005432/http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74368/week-ending-may-22-2011-albums-21916/ . 2011-05-29 .
4. Web site: Adam Sandler at Encyclopedia.com (Google cache) . Encyclopedia.com . 20 December 2010 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20101224060906/http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Adam_Sandler.aspx . 24 December 2010 .
5. Web site: Gotz. Stu. Concert Review from June 29, 1996. Entertainment Ave.. 20 December 2010.
6. Web site: Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1996. Billboard. August 26, 2021.
7. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Adam Sandler|chart=Hot 100}} Adam Sandler Album & Song Chart History]. Billboard. December 31, 2011.
8. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Adam Sandler|chart=Adult Pop Songs}} Adam Sandler Album & Song Chart History]. Billboard. December 31, 2011.
9. Web site: Gold & Platinum. Recording Industry Association of America.