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Essays (Music, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Essays (Music, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 79 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 19/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 11% of the parent category Music (698), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.99 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Essays best sellers
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Love, Pamela: A Moving Celebrity Memoir about Reclaiming Your Narrative
by Pamela Anderson
- List rank#1
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews4,989
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The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
by Ben Ratliff
- List rank#2
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews51
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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
by Geoff Dyer
- List rank#3
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews382
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And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years (FABER & FABER)
by Raquel Cepeda
- List rank#4
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews12
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Mercury and Me
by Jim Hutton
- List rank#5
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews4,063
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Listen to This
by Alex Ross
- List rank#6
- Price$11.92
- Rating4.4
- Reviews177
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The Gospel of the Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels
by Michael Hann
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews21
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Girl in a Band (10th Anniversary Edition): A Memoir – The New York Times Bestseller: The Rock Icon's Edgy and Evocative Journey
by Kim Gordon
- List rank#8
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews1,810
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music — A Rock Memoir
by Dave Grohl
- List rank#9
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews36,115
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The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters
by Daniel Rachel
- List rank#10
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews18
FAQ
Is Essays a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 19/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 79 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Essays?
The median best seller has 79 reviews, and 54% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Essays best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $12.99.
Can new books break into Essays?
6% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.