"Achy Breaky Song" was Yankovic's first single to get considerable airplay on country radio stations.

[1][2] The liner notes for the album Alapalooza state that "All songwriting proceeds from Achy Breaky Song will be donated to the United Cerebral Palsy Association."

[3] The song references Donny & Marie, Barry Manilow, New Kids on the Block, the Village People, Vanilla Ice, the Bee Gees, Debby Boone, ABBA, Slim Whitman, Gheorghe Zamfir, Yoko Ono and Tiffany as artists the narrator would rather listen to than "Achy Breaky Heart."

Eighteen years later, Yankovic parodied Cyrus' daughter Miley on the 2011 album Alpocalypse, with the song "Party in the CIA".

Yankovic's version includes references to torture in the lyrics, and is a parody of the latter Cyrus' song "Party in the U.S.A.".