Children's » Children's Pop

Unlike traditional children's music, which features songs written expressly for young children and performed by children's entertainers, or children's rock, which features new songs written expressly for children with rock-inspired song structures and melodies, children's pop either makes contemporary pop songs appropriate for kids or uses the sound of contemporary pop to make music for children still too young to listen to teen-pop. The Kidz Bop album series, which remade chart-topping hits by adult acts with clean lyrics, session musicians, and a group of children singing along with the songs' choruses, was one of the biggest successes and trendsetters in children's pop, spawning dozens of volumes of the collections. Radio Disney and Disney's own stable of recording artists, which included Hannah Montana and the Cheetah Girls, also had a major influence in popularizing and developing the style in the '90s and 2000s.