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On the Charts: “High School Musical 2″ Scores Major Debut, Dave Matthews and Hip-Hop Heavyweights Hang In

8/22/07, 12:31 pm EST


The Big News: It was a tyker revolution this week, as kids invaded record stores to buy the soundtrack to High School Musical 2, which sold 615,361 copies in its first week of sales — the second-biggest debut of the year behind Linkin Park’s 622,827 opening week sales of Minutes to Midnight. The huge opening wasn’t a shock, though: the Disney Channel’s Friday-night debut of HSM2 attracted 17.2 million viewers, making it the most-watched basic-cable show ever. While they were in the buying mood, tweens (or, more likely, their kind parents) snapped up other kid-friendly titles, as the Hannah Montana 2 soundtrack jumped up to number two, moving 82,607 units, and the original High School Musical sountrack improved from number twenty-eight to sixteen.

Debuts: Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds’ Live at Radio City Music Hall finished at number three, selling 69,792 copies, while AFI’s Davey Havok’s side project Blaqk Audio entered the chart at number eighteen on sales of 29,057.

Last Week’s Sales Heroes?: Hip-hop top-tenners UGK, Plies, Common and T.I. nearly all held onto top-ten positions this week, too, coming in at numbers six, nine, ten and eleven, respectively.


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TiiNK3RB3LL XxX | 5/24/2008, 3:54 pm EST

HiiGH SKEWL MUSiiCAL iiS THA BEST LUV IT XX

pauline soriano | 4/17/2008, 2:45 am EST

me guyz watch hsm3 cause;zac efron;oh my gosh i love you zac

namita | 4/7/2008, 8:29 am EST

zac is cooooool,smart and a perfect actor.

carlos3 | 3/18/2008, 12:17 pm EST

ı love fener

Candy apple | 2/2/2008, 12:56 pm EST

I know no one posts comments anymore

girly | 1/17/2008, 8:02 pm EST

I can tell that not a lot of people know about Rolling Stones Because every time I post a message no one answers Anyway High school musical is awesome

Girly | 1/16/2008, 8:28 pm EST

well High school musical is the best movie I ever seen

girly | 1/14/2008, 8:03 pm EST

do ya guys think that zac should be with ashley or vanessa well I think that he should go with vanessa b/c she is so much prettier and besides ashley is so fake like in the bloopers she would mess up on purpose just to come out in the bloopers and to get attention and really guys she not tht great at dancing shes not even all that great at singing either but thats just my opinnion and monic colemin is chuncky and they make her look skinny with the new technology these days cuz when you see the rehersels she looks so chunky and they try to make her look skinny but they dont succeed cuz all of us know that she is really chunky

girly | 1/14/2008, 7:51 pm EST

I am going to marry zac when I am older

jazzy | 1/14/2008, 7:50 pm EST

I loved the movie hsm

girly | 1/14/2008, 7:48 pm EST

zac is so hot and sexy I desrve him

girly | 1/14/2008, 7:48 pm EST

zac is so hot and sexy I desrve him

girly | 1/14/2008, 7:48 pm EST

zac is so hot and sexy I desrve him

MERARY | 12/26/2007, 8:51 am EST

todos son los mejores me mi sueño cuando yo sea grande es conocerlos en personas

CARRIE MAXWELL | 11/3/2007, 9:36 pm EST

hey i loved hsm and hsm 2 because of zac efron or troy bolton because he so hot and sexy if you don’t like hsm or hsm 2 your an idiot it is so awsome you should watch it

Tom | 9/21/2007, 1:31 pm EST

Ethan | 8/24/2007, 1:37 pm EST

Know what would be cool? If during the musical the lights came crashing down and killed the entire cast. Then Kurt Cobain comes back from the dead and plays with Nirvana after the clear the rubble…

Haha sounds good to me, HSM & HSM2 suck so bad, it’s for kids and for people who don’t understand what logic is.. get a life people.

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wat eva | 8/26/2007, 12:03 pm EST

that is reali mean 2 put things about vanessa like tnat! yes u may like him but its his decision who to date! may be u lot are nt good enough!

saraah | 8/25/2007, 11:23 am EST

what the hell is that?
i was shocked with the hsm2
and zac too, zac why are you gave her(vanessa) your love, i think almost all of girl in the world love you soo much, me too and a lot of girl better than vanessa, and about hsm2, unfortunately the movies is not in Indonesia, isn’t it?, but i’ve just watched it yesterday, it is a little bit nice than hsm1.

Michelle | 8/25/2007, 12:18 am EST

what the fuck, rolling stone? keep this shit off of the website and out of the magazine, please.

dead poets | 8/24/2007, 2:48 pm EST

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
~ Pablo Picasso

Ethan | 8/24/2007, 1:37 pm EST

Know what would be cool? If during the musical the lights came crashing down and killed the entire cast. Then Kurt Cobain comes back from the dead and plays with Nirvana after the clear the rubble…

Ethan | 8/24/2007, 1:33 pm EST

High School Musical…. what a fucking joke.

Poopsy Poop | 8/24/2007, 12:44 pm EST

Mommy, mommy what is gabriela going to do to Zac? Please no! Zac stay away from gabriela! Please! I love you. I want my mommy.

gabriela | 8/24/2007, 8:07 am EST

zac i am going to kill u in bed.

tailan | 8/24/2007, 8:04 am EST

zac u aee so sexy dont have a baby by vanesa ok becuseshe is a killer i no what she is

jesse mcCartny | 8/24/2007, 4:53 am EST

ILove jesse very very much

KNSHION | 8/24/2007, 4:48 am EST

ILove jesse mcCartny and High School Musical very much

Fan of Music | 8/24/2007, 1:11 am EST

The state of the music industry today is just downright terrible. It makes me sick that people actually buy the fabricated trash that is High School Musical 2 (soundtrack). Don’t you people want music written by MUSICIANS?!?! I mean, c’mon, a group of cigar-chomping, bald-headed, 50 year-old white men write the lyrics and pass it down to the OH-SO-TALENTED musicians to present to a completely retarded audience. What is this? On a similar note, it is also pretty pathetic that so many people bought Linkin Park’s new album, yuck!

bukowski | 8/23/2007, 7:18 pm EST

Lula, T.M.I.: Too Much Information

Lula | 8/23/2007, 7:00 pm EST

Zac is so hot I want to have sex.

bukowski | 8/23/2007, 5:55 pm EST

Dear Ned 2, YAAAAAAAA . . . WWWWWWW . . . NNNNNNN!

Evan's mom | 8/23/2007, 4:52 pm EST

shut up ned, they updated the post after the comment was made

Ned Meacham II | 8/23/2007, 2:32 pm EST

For those who commented about the sales figures. RS did quote it right, it says “the SECOND biggest debut of the year BEHIND”

the quote was:
“…the soundtrack to High School Musical 2, which sold 615,361 copies in its first week of sales — the second-biggest debut of the year behind Linkin Park’s 622,827 opening week sales of Minutes to Midnight.”

Leif Garret | 8/23/2007, 1:15 pm EST

HSM2 is dumb, and Zac is not hot.

Kristi | 8/23/2007, 12:42 pm EST

HSM2 Rocks The House Every Performance!

Andy | 8/23/2007, 12:05 pm EST

If you like High School Musical,you are an idiot.

cecilia | 8/23/2007, 12:01 pm EST

i love your cd

Suzy Q | 8/23/2007, 11:53 am EST

I LOVE YOU BOB DYLAN! AND YOU TOO DONALD DUCK! YAYYY!

Notsid | 8/23/2007, 10:23 am EST

Pathetic. Those comments are totally pathetic.

Wilbur | 8/23/2007, 10:09 am EST

See what happens when RS puts semi-retarded pretty boys on their covers? Their semi-retarded fans start typing in moronic comments to this page, when we should all be very very afraid for the state of recorded music right now.

flash back | 8/23/2007, 2:51 am EST

i’m not one to bash on what people like but could someone tell me whats so good about high school musical?
i watched about 15 minutes of it and thought about throwing a chair through my tv just for showing me something that bad
i just want to understand why kids connect so well to this show that sounds like it was put together by 4th graders

yoshi | 8/22/2007, 11:36 pm EST

oh shit dead ass hsm2 is my joint! i love u ashley!

Katie | 8/22/2007, 10:16 pm EST

Hey I love High School Musical 2 i think its a great film. Zack and Vanessa are ahhmazing. I love your duets. Sharpee you are my role model. Go blondes.. wahoo!!
you know you love me
Katieee

cecilia | 8/22/2007, 9:21 pm EST

hey i like zac

Somebody | 8/22/2007, 7:10 pm EST

hhsm 2 pretty good i guess jason roxs because he is soo stupid go stupid people

Rebekah | 8/22/2007, 7:04 pm EST

Hi, zac i think your cute I mean who dosen’t.I just want to say i.I love you .You and vannassa are awsome.

The man | 8/22/2007, 6:43 pm EST

High School Musical blows. Its stuff like this shit that is why rock has been dying off slowly. They just put a bunch of “handsome” boys and “cute” girls in a movie, made some shitty songs, and since its Disney, people bought it. No one actually cares about the content of the songs.

vanessa | 8/22/2007, 6:22 pm EST

u guys sing great and i’m 9 years old

ALYSSA | 8/22/2007, 6:13 pm EST

HI. TELL ZAC TOO CALL ME AT 228-28-13 SATUR DAY 1:00 IN THE EVENEING.AND ZAC I HAVE A CRUSH ON U.I AM 19 YOUR HOT CUTE

muck,muck | 8/22/2007, 5:08 pm EST

i love the disney channel! i consider it real music!

daniel | 8/22/2007, 5:05 pm EST

to “huh” –> the article got changed. it used to not include the part about linkin park

Big Nate | 8/22/2007, 4:50 pm EST

Kind of a stretch to call Linkin Park “real music.” I mean they have instruments near them but I don’t know if they have any more talent

16 clumsy+shy | 8/22/2007, 4:33 pm EST

This is actually mildly frightening.

huh | 8/22/2007, 4:23 pm EST

jesse is apparently illiterate

Moe Pips | 8/22/2007, 4:04 pm EST

Hey you little girlies out there, there’s two other guys besides Zac. What about those guys? Not as cute as Zac? Those other 2 girls look kinda cute too. Vanessa is like the 3rd best looking there.

Liquid Feces | 8/22/2007, 4:00 pm EST

Yaaaayyyy, mommy mommy look it High School Musical on the website! Yaaayyy. I luv you Zac so much! I know u have nothing better to do than go on this Rolling Stone website and read these Comments. I want to be your girlfriend! Yaayyyyy! You be da best! You know I just got my first period, you know what that means? Yaaaaay! Zac I love you!!! Yayyyy!

celine | 8/22/2007, 3:54 pm EST

hey zac i love you very much and i llove your music and vanessas music too but she should of never kissed you because if i was there i would of told her back off because i love zac love ya by celine

Jesse | 8/22/2007, 2:26 pm EST

Rolling Stone you should check your facts, this piece of garbage that you call music didn’t have the biggest debut of the year, that honor belongs to Linkin Park’s Minutes to Midnight (REAL MUSIC)!

daniel | 8/22/2007, 2:17 pm EST

“which sold 615,361 copies in its first week of sales — the biggest debut of the year.”

that’s not true. linkin park’s “minutes to midnight” sold 623,000 albums in its first week. get ur facts straight rs!

aisha | 8/22/2007, 2:15 pm EST

hi zak luv u 2 bits n i hate vanessa ann hudgen she stole me man

Kristi Norton | 8/22/2007, 2:02 pm EST

I just had to add to the comments here about the night of the HSM2 Premier in our home. It was a very exciting day as my daughters and I waited as we watched the countdown of HSM2! Just a few hours before the start of the premier, half of our channels froze!!!!! I was on the phone with the cable company for over 30 minutes to get an update on this epidemic! How could the TV possibly go out on the night of the premier? My daughters and I were mortified b/c we were going to miss the first showing of HSM2! This continued on for the last 2 hours of the countdown and luckily just minutes before the premier started our channels unfroze and the fiasco was over! THANK GOODNESS! It turned out that the smoky weather due to the fires, there was cable complications!

koolkat | 8/22/2007, 1:58 pm EST

I love u all and ur songs

*~* x PRINCESS x *~* | 8/22/2007, 1:49 pm EST

XX HEY EVERYONE! I JUST LOVE DISNEY CHANNEL XX AND HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL RULES! XX

cecilia | 8/22/2007, 1:46 pm EST

i like zac so much i wish he wush
my boy frind

Joe | 8/22/2007, 1:40 pm EST

Billy Ray’s kid is gonna Britney it up in a few years.

melissa | 8/22/2007, 1:36 pm EST

hi guys love ur songs and i love you zac xx

Country Crotch | 8/22/2007, 1:33 pm EST

I LOVE YOU MICKEY MOUSE!

KELSI MARIE BOEHLKE | 8/22/2007, 1:05 pm EST

I LOVE YOU ZAC

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