High School Musical (soundtrack)

High School Musical is the soundtrack of the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name. Recorded in five days,^[3] it was released on January 10, 2006, and became the best selling album of that year, having sold more than 3.7 million copies in the US and 7 million copies worldwide.^[4]^[5] As of January 2016, the album has sold 5 million copies in the US, making it the best-selling TV soundtrack since 1991 when Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales.^[6]

High School Musical

January 10, 2006

Summer 2005

Pop

38:31

Walt Disney

Kenny Ortega, Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush, Drew Lane, Eddie Galan,

December 11, 2007

Dance

24:40

Walt Disney

Although Zac Efron portrayed Troy Bolton in the movie, Drew Seeley's recordings were used for Troy's singing vocals for the majority of the film and soundtrack. Efron sings the beginning portions of "Start of Something New" and "Breaking Free". Seeley was originally uncredited for his vocals on the soundtrack.^[7]

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The instrumentals of "Start of Something New" and "Breaking Free" appear on the second disc of the special edition, and are thus removed from the first disc. On the Walmart collector's edition, the instrumental of "Start of Something New" appears as track seven. Neither track appears on the 2018 LP pressing.

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High School Musical

High School Musical 2

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

High School Musical: El desafio (Argentina)

Official website

High School Musical Soundtrack Online Resource

at archive.today (archived December 6, 2012)

Tweens use iPods, iTunes to storm the charts

at the Wayback Machine (archived December 18, 2008)

High School Musical (soundtrack)