High School Musical 2 (soundtrack)

High School Musical 2
Corbin Bleu, Ashley Tisdale, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, Monique Coleman
Soundtrack album by
High School Musical Cast
ReleasedAugust 14, 2007 (2007-08-14)
Recorded2007
Genre
Length37:48
LabelWalt Disney
High School Musical chronology
High School Musical
(2006) 		High School Musical 2
(2007) 		High School Musical 3: Senior Year
(2008)
Singles from High School Musical 2
  1. "What Time Is It?"
    Released: July 16, 2007
  2. "I Don't Dance"
    Released: August 14, 2007
  3. "You Are the Music in Me"
    Released: September 24, 2007
  4. "Gotta Go My Own Way"
    Released: October 15, 2007
  5. "Everyday"
    Released: November 16, 2007[1]
  6. "Bet on It"
    Released: December 11, 2007[2][3]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Detroit Free Press[5]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[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.

  1. ^ "Everyday". 13 August 2007.
  2. ^ "High School Musical 2- Soundtrack details - SoundtrackCollector.com". www.soundtrackcollector.com.
  3. ^ "Bet on It". Spotify.
  4. ^ "Allmusic review".
  5. ^ "Detroit Free Press review". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  6. ^ "Entertainment Weekly review". August 6, 2007. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved August 10, 2007.
  7. ^ Katie Hasty, "'High School Musical 2' Blasts In At No.1", Billboard.com. August 22, 2007.
  8. ^ "Press Release - SmartBrief". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
  9. ^ "Disney's High School Musical 2 Soundtrack Debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, a First for a TV Movie Soundtrack", Walt Disney Records press release. August 22, 2007.
  10. ^ Caulfield, Keith (20 January 2016). "'High School Musical' Was a Chart-Topping Phenomenon 10 Years Ago". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  11. ^ "'High School Musical' Takes Global Top Spot In 07". Billboard. June 17, 2008.