Kid Albums Explained

Kid Albums (formerly known as Top Kid Audio) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top selling children's music albums in the United States. The chart debuted on the issue dated September 9, 1995.[1] It originally began as a 15-position chart, but has now been expanded to 25. Rankings are compiled by point-of-purchase sales obtained by Nielsen Soundscan data and from legal digital downloads from an all music digital retailers.

The Kid Albums chart features full-length albums that are geared towards children or preteen audiences. Some genres can extend to music for younger children around 1 to 5 years in age, like lullabies, to soundtracks for films that are targeted to children of the age 5-9 to pop, teen pop and other subdivisions of it. Studio albums, EPs, compilation albums and soundtracks are also eligible for the chart.

The first number-one title on the Top Kid Audio chart was a compilation album from Walt Disney Records titled Classic Disney, Vol. 1. As of the week of August 10, 2024, the number-one album on the chart is the soundtrack to the 1984 series The Transformers.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Billboard Kid Albums. Billboard.com. 1. September 9, 1995. July 31, 2009.