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

is behind this?
Could someone please explain?

I guess they pay the kids as session singers with no points, then use different ones next time around (to stop their greedy parents asking for more money).

Sweet!

I wonder how much they pay per kid? Surely it can't be as much as they'd pay for pro adult sessions singers.

Since the songs are rerecorded by studio musicians, Razor and Tie only needs to pay a royalty on the song, rather than on the original recording.
JK, I noticed a couple of yours on these CD's. Have they cut you out by re-recording them?

Hooked On a Feeling
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00021995Y/qid=1141920168/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-0760575-8137734?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

Who Let the Dogs Out
www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B00005...encoding=UTF8#disc_1

Ouga Chaka ouga! ....
Hooked on a feeling was written by BJ Thomas

woof, woof, woof, woof
I don't know who wrote this song, but generally:

Only writers and publishers (not artists, producers) profit from re-recordings and cover versions.

nm