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Instruments & Performers: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Instruments & Performers, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $7.99, median 196 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $9.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 11% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 28% of the parent category Music (698), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Instruments & Performers best sellers
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120 Famous Easy Piano Songs for Beginners: Popular Sheet Music and Simplified Classical Pieces, With Videos, Music Theory & Technique, Step by Step, for Kids or Amateurs of Any Age
by TEDMA Academy
- List rank#1
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews442
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Guitar: How to Memorize the Fretboard: Quickly and Easily Learn the Notes on the Guitar Neck (Beginner Guitar Books)
- List rank#2
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,621
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Fender: The Official Illustrated History
by Dave Hunter
- List rank#3
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews106
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Learn Piano for Adult Beginners: 3 Books in 1: Play Piano in 30 Days! ( Audio + Video )
by Play ToWin
- List rank#4
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews701
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Sound Tracks: An Archaeological Journey Through Our Musical Past
by Graeme Lawson
- List rank#5
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews21
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Guided Pieces for Fingerstyle Guitar – Book One Beginner Level: Build Your Fingerstyle Repertoire With Engaging Pieces & Technique Exercises (Learn How to Play Acoustic Guitar)
by Will McNicol
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Reviews-
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Chord Progressions: Guitar Fretboard View
- List rank#7
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews466
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Chord Progressions For Guitarists: How to Decode Any Progression You Play (Fretboard First)
- List rank#8
- Price$6.99
- Reviews-
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Broken Lyric: Warrior Black Series Book 4(Road to Rocktoberfest 2026) part one
by CJ Barlowe
- List rank#9
- Price$4.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Bass Guitar Scales 365: 52 Weeks of Daily Bass Exercises—Major, Minor, Pentatonic & Modes. Plus, Real-World Applications for All Scales! (Music 365)
by Kirk Tatnall
- List rank#10
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews66
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Instruments
FAQ
Is Instruments & Performers a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 196 reviews and sells for $7.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Instruments & Performers?
The median best seller has 196 reviews, and 37% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Instruments & Performers best sellers cost?
The median price is $7.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $9.99.
Can new books break into Instruments & Performers?
11% 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.