Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to the 1975 animated TV particular Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, debuts throughout an array of Billboard album charts (dated Feb. 1), together with most sensible 10 arrivals on Jazz Albums, Conventional Jazz Albums and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales. It additionally takes a bow at the Child Albums and Best Album Gross sales charts.
That is the primary time your complete soundtrack to the particular has been launched, as best choose tracks from this system had been launched prior to now.
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown marked the thirteenth animated Peanuts particular, and premiered on CBS-TV on Jan. 28, 1975. It garnered an Emmy Award nomination for remarkable kids’s particular.
The soundtrack was once issued just about 50 years to the day after this system’s debut – because the album arrived on Jan. 17, 2025. The 30-track album was once launched by means of streaming products and services, in addition to to buy as a virtual obtain, CD and throughout 3 vinyl variants (an ordinary black vinyl, plus a red-colored version and pink-colored version).
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown enters at No. 7 on Conventional Jazz Albums, No. 9 at the general Jazz Albums rating, No. 9 on Indie Retailer Album Gross sales, No. 18 on Child Albums and No. 48 on Best Album Gross sales. The set earned just a little over 2,000 identical album gadgets within the U.S. within the week finishing Jan. 23, in keeping with Luminate, with the vast majority of that sum pushed by means of conventional album gross sales.
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is the most recent in a chain of from-the-vaults Peanuts soundtrack releases Lee Mendelson Movie Productions, the corporate that produced greater than 50 Peanuts animated specials. In recent times, the studio has launched Guaraldi’s significant other albums to You’re No longer Elected, Charlie Brown; It Was once a Quick Summer time, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
The primary Peanuts animated particular, 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, introduced the evergreen soundtrack album of the similar title from Vince Guaraldi Trio. That set has spent greater than 100 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 at the Child Albums chart and has visited the highest 40 of the all-genre Billboard 200 in each vacation season for the closing 10 years.
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