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The Top-Selling Tunes on Billboard, Sung by Children for Children - 2006/03/06 10:09
By ROBERT LEVINE
The offices of Razor and Tie, an independent music label with the No. 2 album in the country this week, are in Greenwich Village, but they might as well be somewhere between "Sesame Street" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
Razor and Tie is the company responsible for "Kidz Bop," a series of albums consisting of rerecorded, stripped-down versions of hits sung, in an intentionally imperfect style, by children 8 to 12.
"Kidz Bop 9," which was released on Feb. 21, includes a shout-along version of Weezer's "Beverly Hills" and a performance of Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" that could be the work of a middle-school chorus under the baton of a choir teacher too hip for his own good.
"We saw that there was a gap between music for tiny kids
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