“Songs for a Healthier America" : Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move [Photos/Video]

The much anticipated Music album is set to release. First lady Michelle Obama's anti-childhood obesity campaign, Let's Move, has inspired some of the nation's biggest music stars to put together a 19-track music album, "Songs for a Healthier America."

First lady Michelle Obama is on a mission to fight childhood obesity since she's been in office. Judging by the track listing the album is highly anticipated with appearances from Ashanti to Doug E. Fresh. Her campaign has made a difference in the country but still some areas not impacted so, we hope this album helps and bring awareness to the issue.

Obama is not singing , but the compilation is part of her Let's Move campaign, which she launched in 2010 to help combat childhood obesity. The nationwide initiative is also committed to helping ensure all families have access to healthy, affordable food in their communities.

Hip Hop Public Health and the Partnership for a Healthier America, two organizations also dedicated to solving the country's childhood obesity crisis, are also involved with the album's creation.

"The simple act of getting up and dancing is really a great way to be active," Drew Nannis, chief marketing officer of Partnership for a Healthier America, told MSNBC. "We are bringing together music and physical activity in a way we felt more people could identify with."

Adolescents between the ages of 8 and 18 spend about 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media, including television, computers, video games, cell phones, and movies, according to Let's Move statistics.

"Music is so universal, it's so powerful, that as an educator I'm always amazed of why it's not being used more ubiquitously within public health," Dr. Olajide Williams, founder of Hip Hop Public Health and associate professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, told MSNBC.

Music, he added, has greater representation in the brain than language. It not only enhances memory, but also creates an emotional connection with the themes being delivered.

The 19-track compilation, which targets adolescents as young as kindergarteners and as old as seniors in high school, features pop, hip hop, and country songs. The first track and video, titled "Everybody," was released in June and is available for download.