“Operation Humble Kanye” is sort of a success. If you don’t know, Stephen Colbert attempted to have the top album on iTunes by telling everyone to buy his Christmas album on December 3rd at 5PM Eastern. Last night, the album was #15. This morning, “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All” is the #3 more »

Stephen Colbert is trying to push his Christmas album to the top of the iTunes album charts. How? He’s organizing “Operation Humble Kanye” to game iTunes. Kanye West’s album was #1 when Colbert started this plan (currently, Britney Spears is in the top spot).

His plan is to get everyone to buy “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All” today, December 3rd, at 5PM Eastern time.

Can this actually work? Will a concentrated surge of purchases propel the album to the top of the charts? I guess we’ll find out later today. Check out the video after the break.

It seems that Mozilla must credit a fairly large portion of its Guinness World Record for the highest number of software downloads in a 24 hour period to none other than Stephen Colbert himself. It’s not surprising to hear that Colbert’s on-show guests experience a rush of publicity immediately after being viewed on the show, more »