High School Musical (album)

*Start of Something New: Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) are randomly called up during a New Year's Eve karaoke party to sing this song, which portrays their meeting each other, and that it could be the "Start of Something New."
*Get'cha Head in the Game: Sung by Troy and the rest of the East High Wildcats basketball team during one of their practices, the focus of the piece is that they all need to get their "Head in the Game." Throughout the song, Troy contemplates the possibility of auditioning with Gabriella for the Winter Musical, as he sings:

Why am I feeling so wrong
My head's in the game
But my heart's in the song
She makes this feel so right
Should I go for it?
Better shake this, yikes!

*What I've Been Looking for: This faster-tempo arrangement of the standard audition piece for the Winter Musical is performed by Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) for the "pairs audition."
*What I've Been Looking for [Reprise]: Though too late to sign-up for the Winter Musical auditions, Troy and Gabriella sing the audition piece "the way it's supposed to sound," for and as written by Kelsi (Olesya Rulin), the student composer of the Musical.
*Stick to the Status Quo: When the school finds that Troy and Gabriella have gone against the grain in auditioning for the Winter Musical, some of other the students follow their lead and "confess" their own secret and non-stereotypical interests (such as one of the "skater dudes" playing the cello), much to the chagrin of the rest of the student body, who argue that:

It is better by far
To keep things as they are
Don't mess with the flow, no no
Stick to the status quo

*When There Was Me and You: Distressed by what she overheard Troy saying about his lack of feelings for her and singing, Gabriella berates herself for her apparent naiveness, and expresses that she "thought you felt it too, when there was me and you."
*Bop to the Top: Sharpay and Ryan's selection for the pairs audition callbacks, the song characterizes the duo's ambition to always be the best and "Bop to the Top."
*Breaking Free: Assigned to Troy and Gabriella for the pairs callbacks, the two (accompanied by Kelsi) audition the song in front of their peers and, through it, are able to show the school their desire to "break free" from the molds that others have put them in:

You know the world can see us
In a way that's different than who we are

*We're All in This Together: As the final song of the movie, with solos by Troy, Gabriella, Ryan, and Sharpay, the chorus performs the school chant, which highlights that everyone is at their strongest when they're "all in this together."

Mainstream success

In the soundtrack's first week, it debuted at #143 on the Billboard 200. In its second week, it jumped 85 spots to #58 on the Billboard 200 chart and was labeled Pacesetter by Billboard. In its third week, it jumped 48 spots to #10 and has since reached #1 for two nonconsecutive weeks. It is certified 3x Platinum. According to Billboard.com, High School Musical is the best selling album of 2006 as of July 5, 2006 with sales of over 2 million records to date and closing in on 3 million records.

As of July 30, 2006, the album has peaked at #1 on the ARIA top 50 albums chart and has stayed their for 2 consecutive weeks and has gone gold. It has also gone to #4 on the New Zealand top 40 albums chart.

US Billboard 200 Chart Trajectory
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Position	143	58	10	13	13	6	1	2	3	1	2	3	4	4	3	7	4	7	4	2	2	5	4	6	9	8	7	5	6	11

*US Chart Position: #1 (2 weeks)
*US Sales: 2,863,787 RIAA Certification: 3x Platinum
*Amazon.com Online Sales: #1 (3 days)
*Nine songs from the soundtrack made it to the Billboard Hot 100 (chart peak given):

Year	Single	Singer(s)	Chart	Peak
2006	Bop to the Top	Lucas Grabeel & Ashley Tisdale	Hot Digital Songs	29
2006	Bop to the Top	align="left"|Pop 100	45
2006	Bop to the Top	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	61
2006	Breaking Free	Zac Efron & Vanessa Anne Hudgens& Andrew Seeley	Hot Digital Songs	1
2006	Breaking Free	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	4
2006	Breaking Free	align="left"|Pop 100	6
2006	Get'cha Head in the Game	Zac Efron	Hot Digital Songs	6
2006	Get'cha Head in the Game	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	23
2006	Get'cha Head in the Game	align="left"|Pop 100	23
2006	Start of Something New	Zac Efron, Andrew Seeley & Vanessa Anne Hudgens	Hot Digital Songs	7
2006	Start of Something New	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	28
2006	Start of Something New	align="left"|Pop 100	30
2006	Stick to the Status Quo	High School Musical Cast	Hot Digital Songs	16
2006	Stick to the Status Quo	align="left"|Pop 100	37
2006	Stick to the Status Quo	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	43
2006	We're All in This Together	High School Musical Cast	Hot Digital Songs	9
2006	We're All in This Together	align="left"|Pop 100	32
2006	We're All in This Together	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	34
2006	What I've Been Looking For	Lucas Grabeel & Ashley Tisdale	Hot Digital Songs	11
2006	What I've Been Looking for	align="left"|Pop 100	34
2006	What I've Been Looking for	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	35
2006	What I've Been Looking for [Reprise]	Andrew Seeley & Vanessa Anne Hudgens	Hot Digital Songs	33
2006	What I've Been Looking for [Reprise]	align="left"|Pop 100	54
2006	What I've Been Looking for [Reprise]	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	66
2006	When There Was Me and You	Vanessa Anne Hudgens	Hot Digital Songs	34
2006	When There Was Me and You	align="left"|Pop 100	55
2006	When There Was Me and You	align="left"|Billboard Hot 100	71

*"Breaking Free" went from number #86 to #4 in it's second week, an 82 point jump on the Hot 100.
*"Get'cha Head in the Game" went from number #100 to #23 in it's second week, a 74 point jump. :"It is stated on About.com that "Walt Disney Records" is planning on releasing "High School Musical Soundtrack" on a Special Edition CD.This CD is now availabe in stores.

"On June 27, 2006 there will be "A Tribute to High SchoolMusical" released on CD."

iTunes rankings

The numbers below are the peaks of each song on the iTunes Top 100:
Start of Something New - #6
Get'cha Head in the Game - #3
What I've Been Looking For - #6 on the iTunes Top 100
What I've Been Looking for (Reprise) - #19
Stick to the Status Quo - #11
When There Was Me and You - #22
Bop to the Top - #15
Breaking Free- #1
We're All in This Together - #7

Composers

Six composing teams were hired to write the music. The score was written by David Lawrence, and the songs' respective composers are as follows:
*"Start of Something New" and "We're All in This Together" by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil
*"Stick to the Status Quo" by David Lawrence & Fay Greenberg
*"Get'cha Head in the Game" by Ray Cham, Greg Cham, and Andrew Seeley
*"Bop to the Top" by Randy Petersen & Kevin Quinn
*"What I've Been Looking For" by Andy Dodd & Adam Watts
*"Breaking Free" and "When There Was Me & You" by Jamie Houston

See also

*High School Musical

External links

*Official album site
*Tweens use iPods, iTunes to storm the charts
*"High School Musical" Soundtrack Shatters Multiple Records On Billboard Charts
*Jaheim's 'Classics' Crash In At No. 1