Muppets: The Green Album | ||||
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Compilation album by Various artists | ||||
Released | August 23, 2011 | |||
Studio | Various | |||
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Length | 36:40 | |||
Label | Walt Disney | |||
Producer | Dani Markman | |||
The Muppets chronology | ||||
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Singles from Muppets: The Green Album | ||||
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Muppets: The Green Album is a cover album of twelve songs originally from the Muppets, covered by alternative rock and pop artists.[1] The album was released by Walt Disney Records on August 23, 2011, on a digipak CD and as a digital download.[2][3] A music video was also produced for the album's sole single; "Muppet Show Theme Song", featuring OK Go attempting to produce their own music video until they are interrupted by the Muppets' antics.[4]
Walt Disney Records announced the album at the 2009 D23 Expo as Muppets Revisited with a projected 2010 release date.[5] The original project's name paralleled the title of Nightmare Revisited, the cover album that Disney had released for The Nightmare Before Christmas in 2008. The album was part of Disney's dualistic effort to revitalize the franchise and to promote the subsequent release of the seventh Muppet film, three months later.[6] The album's name is derived as a parody of the Beatles' White Album and the artwork features a "typographic portrait" of Kermit the Frog's face, which is reminiscent of cover art derived from the rock albums of the 1960s.[7]
Muppets: The Green Album was generally well received by critics and debuted at number 1 on both Billboard's Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts.[8][9] With an estimated 30,000 copies initially sold, the album also peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first Muppet album to reach the top 10.[10][11]