With a whopping 98,000 plus units sold in its first week of release, KIDZ BOP 9, the latest volume from the best-selling children's music series has entered the Billboard Top 200 Album chart at the incredible #2 position, the highest chart position ever for Razor & Tie and the biggest sales week in KIDZ BOP history. KIDZ BOP 9 also becomes the highest charting non-soundtrack children's release in Billboard history. Since their debut in 2001, KIDZ BOP titles have sold over 7 million copies with seven gold albums to date.
The KIDZ BOP brand continues to expand its popularity and is now an undeniable presence in the world of toys. Fisher-Price's Star StationTM which features KIDZ BOP music was recently declared one of the 12 Toys of Christmas by Wal-mart and sold out all across the country during the holiday season. Razor & Tie also just partnered with Hong Kong-based toy company Techno Source to launch a series of electronic toy products utilizing the KIDZ BOP brand. This has been a very active first quarter for Razor & Tie with the ground-breaking release of Laurie Berkner?s chart-topping DVD WE ARE...THE LAURIE BERKNER BAND in conjunction with Starbucks, the Top Twenty debut of MONSTER BALLADS PLATINUM, the Top 100 debut of FIRED UP 3 this week (arriving at #84 with over 14,000 units sold) and the signing of seventeen-year-old singing sensation Kelly Sweet. Razor & Tie expects to finish 2006 as the top-selling independent record company in the United States.