‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’ Soundtrack Floats Back to Kid Albums Top 5, Thanks to Ghostly New Vinyl

Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown returns to Billboard’s Kid Albums illustration for the Halloween season, arsenic it re-enters astatine No. 4 connected the database dated Sept. 13.

The surge backmost onto the database (its archetypal quality since November 2024) is powered mostly by income of a caller Target-exclusive variation of the album, a “ghost achromatic pumpkin-shaped vinyl” variant.

The Kid Albums illustration ranks the week’s astir fashionable kid albums successful the United States, according to Luminate. The latest illustration reflects the tracking week ending Sept. 4.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the companion medium to the 1966 Emmy Award-nominated animated TV peculiar of the aforesaid name. The peculiar archetypal aired connected broadcast TV connected CBS, earlier migrating to ABC, and yet to the paid streaming work Apple TV+. The second has antecedently aired the programme for escaped for non-subscribers for a constricted clip during the spooky season; Apple has yet to denote accusation astir a escaped streaming model for Pumpkin successful 2025.

The Pumpkin soundtrack has spent astatine slightest 1 week astatine No. 1 connected the Kid Albums illustration each twelvemonth from 2021 done 2024, for a full of six nonconsecutive weeks connected top.

Pumpkin is 1 of 4 soundtracks to Peanuts TV specials and films to deed No. 1 connected the Kid Albums illustration done the years, lasting alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Boy Named Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

The Pumpkin soundtrack besides 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).