Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown returns to Billboard’s Kid Albums chart for the Halloween season, as it re-enters at No. 4 on the list dated Sept. 13.
The surge back onto the list (its first appearance since November 2024) is powered mostly by sales of a new Target-exclusive edition of the album, a “ghost white pumpkin-shaped vinyl” variant.
The Kid Albums chart ranks the week’s most popular kid albums in the United States, according to Luminate. The latest chart reflects the tracking week ending Sept. 4.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the companion album to the 1966 Emmy Award-nominated animated TV special of the same name. The special first aired on broadcast TV on CBS, before migrating to ABC, and eventually to the paid streaming service Apple TV+. The latter has previously aired the program for free for non-subscribers for a limited time during the spooky season; Apple has yet to announce information about a free streaming window for Pumpkin in 2025.
The Pumpkin soundtrack has spent at least one week at No. 1 on the Kid Albums chart every year from 2021 through 2024, for a total of six nonconsecutive weeks on top.
Pumpkin is one of four soundtracks to Peanuts TV specials and films to hit No. 1 on the Kid Albums chart through the years, standing alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Boy Named Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
The Pumpkin soundtrack also populates further Billboard rankings this week: Jazz Albums (rising 18-6), Traditional Jazz Albums (14-5), Soundtracks (No. 5 re-entry), Vinyl Albums (No. 13 re-entry) and Top Album Sales (No. 28 re-entry).
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