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Article Archive: Audio & CD
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Toys in the News 9/03/2021
McFarlane Toys announces Batman: Year Two Target exclusive Batman-News Deadly Toys: How Weaponized Xbox Controllers Inspired New Art Exhibition Forbes bookmark_border share more_vert Grogu Goes...
9/1/2021
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Musical Toys
In 2011 digital music sales surpassed physical album sales for the first time, according to a report by CNN. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that when TDmonthly interviewed retailers about their best selling CDs and musical toys, 10 of the 13 said that they don't sell CDs at all anymore...
2/1/2012
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 Music
See recent Specialty and Mass-Market products in the Music category...
8/1/2011
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 Summary of Online CD Reviews
TDmonthly Magazine’s Review Scout scours the Web weekly for reviews of new and hot products so you don’t have to spend your time searching...
11/1/2010
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 Summary of Online Book and CD Reviews
TDmonthly Magazine’s Review Scout scours the Web weekly for reviews of new and hot products so you don’t have to spend your time searching...
11/1/2010
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert heard a frog’s rock story, learned about functions of the brain, and enjoyed a jazzy spin on classic children’s songs...
7/1/2010
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert watched her daughter hum and dance to tunes by the Bari Koral Family, wiggled away with international sensation The Wiggles, and enjoyed distinctive instrumentation in an album of French songs...
6/1/2010
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert rocked out to some honky-tonk tunes, took beginning Chinese, and went on a field trip with sharp musicians in this month’s reviews...
5/1/2010
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 Toys in the News: 3-31-10
Music merchandising company Bravado has appointed University Games to produce a signature line of games, authentic puzzles and Colorforms, expanding on their collectible memorabilia for the world’s most successful entertainer, Michael Jackson...
3/1/2010
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 Top-10 Most-Wanted Musical Toys
TDmonthly Magazine recently interviewed 47 specialty toy-store owners around the country (plus one in Canada) to find out what's selling in their music departments...
2/1/2010
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Musical Toys & CDs
Go back to main article: "Award-Winning Toys for a Hassle-Free Holiday"...
12/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert appreciated the vocal and musical attributes of “Teaspoon at a Time,” “Martian Television Invasion” and "American Heroes #3," while also applauding the pertinent messages...
11/1/2009
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 Kids’ Music Gets “Ziggy”
It’s no surprise that the powerful tween market is ruling choices in kids’ music, too. As of Aug. 31, the top-10 best-selling children’s albums on Amazon.com included the tween-targeted “Kidz Bop 16,” featuring pop tunes such as Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”...
9/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert took a quick trip around the world to sample different ethnic styles of music and laughed at hilarious lyrics about family, bad days and rhyming in Lanny Sherwin’s latest...
9/1/2009
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Holiday Preview - CDs & DVDs
Magic tricks, language development, exercise, and math training are all part of the diverse collection covered in this Holiday Preview of CDs and DVDs...
5/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
In the latest batch of CDs, TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert delved into a mix of creative orchestration topped off with humor...
3/1/2009
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 Kids' CDs Rock Out and Keep Things Jazzy
When TDmonthly Magazine queries specialty toy retailers about what music sells (and plays!) in their stores, Putumayo Kids comes up time and time again. There's no doubt Putumayo has a lot to offer...
2/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Music Expert unearthed some big hits in her CD player recently, enjoying everything from French classics to folktales...
2/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
If you want to know which children’s CDs may be worth carrying in your store, see what TDmonthly’s Music Expert has to say...
1/1/2009
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
If you want to know which children’s CDs may be worth carrying in your store, see what TDmonthly’s Music Expert has to say...
12/1/2008
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
If you want to know which children’s CDs may be worth carrying in your store, see what TDmonthly’s Music Expert has to say...
11/1/2008
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 TDmonthly’s Music Expert
If you want to know which children’s CDs may be worth carrying in your store, see what TDmonthly’s Music Expert has to say...
10/1/2008
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 Singing Prodigy Eschews Toys for Grander Things
When TDmonthly Magazine spoke with Connie Talbot, the 7-year-old singing phenomenon whose “Over the Rainbow” album will debut this month on the AAO Music/Reality label, she said she was hoping to get a bicycle for her birthday on November 20...
9/1/2008
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 Music With a Message
There’s a lot more to a children's CD than just the music itself. As several musicians recently told TDmonthly Magazine, it’s also about having a story and a cause, and getting kids involved...
9/1/2007
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 TDmonthly's Multimedia Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Multimedia Expert has devoted her career to watching and listening to imaginative creations in a variety of media...
6/1/2007
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 Listen and Learn
These CDs use songs and stories to keep kids amused at home, in their SUVs or while shopping in your store...
6/1/2007
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 Baby Gets a Boom Box
Dan Lemay believes he has something that nobody else has in the toy, music or even educational industry...
4/1/2007
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 Jandie Jams Adds Up
Many parents might recognize Sandy Sartor’s dilemma: In an attempt to find educational resources for her small children that were more interesting than flash cards, she purchased a music CD designed to help them learn addition...
4/1/2007
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 TDmonthly's Multimedia Expert
TDmonthly Magazine’s Multimedia Expert has devoted her career to watching and listening to imaginative creations in a variety of media...
3/1/2007
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 Music to a Kid's Ears
Toys and music have gone hand-in-hand since the first music box. But now, with iPods and downloads, CD mega-stores and file sharing, kid’s music at the toy store is becoming an endangered species. Or is it?...
9/1/2006
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 Showcase the Music
What goes into creating a kid song that works? TDmonthly Magazine talked with the creators and distributors of children's CDs...
9/1/2006
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 Laughing Pizza Serves Up Fun
Laughing Pizza doesn’t come with pepperoni or sausage. Instead, the name refers to a family musical group that serves up a flavorful blend of pop, country and Motown-style tunes...
5/1/2005
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 Rivanna Music: Soothing Children with Lullabies
Children´s lullabies are a worldwide tradition. When Cathy Bollinger was in college she met Zane Apprey, a dedicated music therapist who served as her mentor and taught her that opportunities to use music to nurture and inspire surround us...
2/1/2005
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 Selling Music for Children
For a new store owner thinking of specializing, music for children is a lucrative, fulfilling possibility. From a monetary and artistic perspective, this is a rewarding retail niche...
2/1/2005
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Children´s Music: What´s New for 2005
The savvy children´s music retailer in 2005 knows that cassettes are out, and CDs are in. Videotapes are nearing extinction, and DVDs are multiplying...
2/1/2005
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Children´s Music
Children´s music never sounded quite like this. While age old lullabys will never go out of style, children´s music is growing in leaps and bounds with many musicians making the cross-over from recording pop and rock tunes to modern day kiddie classics. Check out the following albums that are as...
1/1/2005
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MUSIC
Baby Road Trip Inc. (ToyShow)The multi award-winning Baby Road Trip Video Series takes children ages 6 months to 4 years of age on educational and entertaining musically themed journeys to different exciting destinations! This video series was designed especially for parents to enjoy just as much as their babies and...
8/1/2004
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Spooky Tunes and Grooves
The Halloween Fun CD by Kimbo Educational offers musical Halloween safety tips along with poems and spooky sound effects...
3/1/2004
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MUSIC
A New Spin On the Toy Piano The Baby Grand Piano (Black or White) from Imagiix (ToyDirectory) is a totally new concept in the design and manufacture of toy pianos, designed to encourage and enable children 3 and up to "conduct concertos." Features of the 25 key piano include...
3/1/2004
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