Gabb Music is a music streaming service specifically developed for kids and families who have a Gabb Wireless phone — and the company is listening to its young audience as the platform continues to grow. “Having the ability to build something from the ground up for kids was to me so appealing,” Kerri Fox-Metoyer, head of entertainment at Gabb Wireless, tells Billboard Family . “If you look at the marketplace, most of the other music services have been built for adults and then kind of re-engineered for kids, but we were building everything from the ground up for kids.
” On Nov. 14, Billboard presented the first Top Gabb Music Songs chart , a monthly chart provided by Gabb Wireless that tracks on-demand streams via the phone company’s Gabb Music platform, which features an extensive catalog of songs selected by the Gabb team that include only kid- and teen-appropriate content. Gabb Music streams are not currently factored into any other Billboard charts.
Based on data from the month of October 2024, Benson Boone ’s “Beautiful Things” tops the first Top Gabb Music Songs chart as the most-played song on Gabb Wireless phones. The chart lists the 25 most-played songs of the month on Gabb phones. Fox-Metoyer spoke with Billboard Family from Gabb Music’s Nashville base ahead of the launch of the Top Gabb Music Songs chart, in a conversation about how the streaming service came to be, and how it provides a song catalog tailored to young listeners and their families.
