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Sending babies and their hip parents off to a restful slumber since 2006,
Rockabye Baby! is a popular series that issues collections of instrumental lullaby versions of songs by well-known rock-era artists. Kicking off with inaugural sets of
Coldplay,
Metallica, and
Radiohead songs,
Rockabye Baby! went on to cover artists ranging from
the Beatles and
Bob Marley to
Björk before the end of the decade. Highlighting their gentle arrangements, often featuring keyboard and bell-type tones, the series' first compilation, Good Day, Goodnight, appeared in 2011. Releasing upwards of a half-dozen albums per year,
Rockabye Baby! paid tribute to
Prince in 2012,
David Bowie in 2014, and
Tom Petty in 2018. The line had its biggest commercial success to that point with 2017's
Lullaby Renditions of Justin Timberlake, which hit the Top 20 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart.
The brainchild of Lisa Roth, an executive at Los Angeles-based CMH Label Group (and sister of
Van Halen's
David Lee Roth), the
Rockabye Baby! series was launched on August 29, 2006 with the release of
Lullaby Renditions of Coldplay,
Lullaby Renditions of Metallica, and
Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead. Over time, a variety of performers would join the fold, but
Andrew Bissell and
Steven Charles Boone were among frequent early contributors. Word spread of the series with the release of collections of songs originally by groups like
the Beach Boys,
Led Zeppelin, and
the Cure through the end of the decade. In 2011, the five-year-anniversary collection, Good Day, Goodnight, included several previously unreleased songs alongside a double-album's worth of selections from prior releases.
Rockabye Baby!'s popularity grew throughout the 2010s, and they eventually charted with 2017's
Lullaby Renditions of the Doors, which reached number 25 on the Billboard Kid Albums chart. They went all the way to number seven later in the year with their
Justin Timberlake collection, which also reached number 18 on the independent albums chart. Lullaby Renditions of the Beastie Boys peaked at number eight on the kids' music chart in 2018, and in 2019, their covers of
Weezer returned
Rockabye Baby! to the number seven spot. ~ Marcy Donelson & Neil Z. Yeung