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 high 10 arrivals on Jazz Albums, Conventional Jazz Albums and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales. It additionally takes a bow on the Child Albums and Prime Album Gross sales charts.
That is the primary time the entire soundtrack to the particular has been launched, as solely choose tracks from this system have been launched beforehand.
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 excellent kids’s particular.
The soundtrack was issued almost 50 years to the day after this system’s debut – because the album arrived on Jan. 17, 2025. The 30-track album was launched by way of streaming companies, in addition to to buy as a digital obtain, CD and throughout three vinyl variants (a typical 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 on the general Jazz Albums rating, No. 9 on Indie Retailer Album Gross sales, No. 18 on Child Albums and No. 48 on Prime Album Gross sales. The set earned just a little over 2,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Jan. 23, in keeping with Luminate, with almost all of that sum pushed by conventional album gross sales.
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown is the most recent in a collection 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 companion albums to You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown; It Was a Quick Summer time, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
The primary Peanuts animated particular, 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, launched the evergreen soundtrack album of the identical identify from Vince Guaraldi Trio. That set has spent greater than 100 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Child Albums chart and has visited the highest 40 of the all-genre Billboard 200 in each vacation season for the final 10 years.