Halfway Point

This week marks the halfway point of the "52 Weeks of Pac-Man Fever" project. It's hard to believe we're already halfway there, but we are. I honestly wasn't sure when I started if I'd actually be able to come up with 52 items. And at that point I had several items listed individually that I'm now starting to list as groups so I can squeeze them all in!

So where are we? Well, as of this time in 1982, we've seen the "Pac-Man Fever" single peak and start falling on all the American charts. On RPM's 50 Singles chart in Canada, the single has just hit its peak. The album is still climbing the American album charts. The single has also gone gold (shipped 1 million copies), but the album has not yet gone gold (shipped 500,000 copies).

Coming up, besides the album peaking on the charts, we'll look at some of the ways Jerry Buckner has kept the Pac-Man Fever flame burning in May. Then we have the release of the second single from the album, "Do the Donkey Kong", which we'll celebrate with Donkey Kong Month in June. Beyond that is the re-recording and re-release of the album in 1999, and the subsequent merchandise Buckner & Garcia created.

I do have a special plan to wrap up the end of this project, so just because the history starts winding down, don't think that it's over! In the meantime, please share the tweets or blog entries with any friends you think might be interested.