High School Musical 2 | ||||
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![]() Corbin Bleu, Ashley Tisdale, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, Monique Coleman | ||||
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Released | August 14, 2007 | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
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Length | 37:48 | |||
Label | Walt Disney | |||
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Singles from High School Musical 2 | ||||
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AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Entertainment Weekly | B+[6] |
High School Musical 2 is the soundtrack for the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name. It was released on August 14, 2007, by Walt Disney Records.
Debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, the album sold 625,000 copies in its initial week of release. As of September 2007, this figure amounted to the fourth-biggest first week sales of the year.[7] It was the first soundtrack of a television movie to debut at the Billboard summit.[8] The album also shipped double platinum (2,000,000) copies in the U.S. in its first week of release.[9] It was the best-selling album of 2007, with sales of over 2.96 million copies in the United States and 6 million copies worldwide.[10][11] The album won Favorite Soundtrack Album at The American Music Awards of 2007.