What 10 albums would you buy for a toddlers first introduction to music?

[SoloMumJustMuddlingThrough]

My 20 month old is obsessed with the cd player, for Christmas I would like to buy her a bunch of second hand CDs. At the moment she has a few audio books and some french nursery rhymes which we have on repeat. She knows how to change the cd, and skip to her favourite.

I would like to give her exposure to a range of music, jazz, rock, pop, classical. So I guess the question is what 10 CDs/albums would you start with? I love music but honestly cannot narrow it down (I don't have room int he flat for a huge cd collection, we are already being overrun with books!)

Oh god, not Simon and Garfunkel though - I thought my DS (aged 4) would enjoy them, so I put Sound of Silence on in the car and I hadn't noticed how much death and suicide there is in there. He sometimes really listens to lyrics and I was dreading the questions ('Mama, why did he put a bullet through his head?') but luckily I got away with it. Not doing it again though.

I wouldn't normally repeat myself but, as I posted earlier, first music is about singing. Just google 'singing effect on brain children'. Children with song get a boost in all sorts of areas, particularly speech and language development. Sing along to your chosen music (even if you have to pretend you like doing it - you really don't have to be any good at it!). It's like 'dance like no-one's watching' - singing is active, listening is passive.

All the imprinting of well known classical music in the car came to SOME good.

DS did piano to Conservatoire level and there was theory, too. One of his Aural exams was: “Describe the thematic development in this piece of music after three listenings”.
All ears open, here we go….
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik!
He could sing it all the way through in his head as many times as he wanted and got an excellent result.

Utterly inappropriate, but my eldest used to often request Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I was happy to oblige! On a more appropriate note, the Peanuts. Christmas album is wonderful.

The music from the Jungle Book (Disney original)
The music from Grease
Abba

Can't you just play whatever you fancy, I love my parent's music because it was the soundtrack to my childhood fleetwood mac, dire straights, beach boys, queen, kate bush, the eagles, gypsy kings etc etc etc... takes me right back. Get an Alexa/sonos speaker, music subscription and listen to whatever you fancy.

My daughter absolutely loves Flight of the Conchords. Totally inappropriate for a 5 (now 7) year old. She hasn't worked out what Business Time is about quite yet and I'm an expert at skipping over the swearing in Robots.