This School Rock Like No Other came out in January 1996 and took the country by storm. The Disney TV original movie premiered to an enormous 7.73 million viewers and became an instant hit. Musical's popularity with the under-18 crowd, especially the tweens (9-14), drove it's soundtrack CD to the top of both the Billboard Charts and iTunes. High School Musical's soundtrack CD went quintuple platinum and was the best-selling album of 2006 with over 3 million records sold.
The High School Musical soundtrack CD's enormous popularity was fueled by its Top 10 hit Breaking Free. It also had an astounding nine songs that made the Billboard HOT 100, five of which made the Top 40. Other popular songs from the High School Musical Soundtrack CD include Get'cha Head In The Game, Start Of Something New, Stick To The Status Quo, We're All In This Together, What I've Been Looking For (Reprise and original), When There Was Me And You, and Bop To The Top.
The smashing success of High School Musical was nothing compared to it's sequel. High School Musical 2 debuted on TV in August of 2007 and drew an unbelievable 17.2 million viewers, almost 10 million more than the original and more than any other program ever shown on basic cable. The 6.1 million child-viewers that tuned in for Musical 2 is more than any telecast in TV history and High School Musical 2 also ranks second for most watched entertainment telecast by tweens, just behind the Super Bowl of 2004.
The High School Musical 2 soundtrack was released in August 2007 and shot up to number one on the Billboard 200. Tracks on the album include All For One, Fabulous, I Don't Dance, I've Gotta Go My Own Way, What Time Is It?, and You Are The Music In Me.