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* Are not on the first disc of the two-disc special edition version.

** Drew Seeley sang in several of the songs, his voice being mixed with Zac Efron's. He originally was not given credit for singing.

High School Musical 2-disc Special edition

On May 23, 2006, the same day the DVD came out, Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records is a family music record label owned by the Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Records was formed in 1956 as Disneyland Records. Before that time, Disney recordings were licensed out to a variety of other labels such as . It was Walt Disney’s brother Roy O...

released a special edition of the High School Musical album featuring a bonus disc with eight karaoke tracks of the High School Musical numbers.

Charts performances

Chart (2006)	Providers	Peak position	Certification	Sales
Billboard 200 (US)	Billboard, RIAA	1	4× Platinum	4,800,000
UK Compilation Albums Chart*	OCC The Official UK Charts Company The Official Charts Company , previously called the Chart Information Network and then The Official UK Charts Company, compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video... , BPI	1	3× Platinum	900,000
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...	1	Platinum	70,000
German Albums Chart	BVMI Bundesverband Musikindustrie The Bundesverband Musikindustrie or simply BVMI represents the music industry in Germany. The association represents the interests of nearly 350 labels and music industry related enterprises....	?	Platinum	200,000
Mexican Top 100 Albums Chart	Universal	1
Argentine Top 100 Albums Chart	Universal	1	3× Platinum	300,000
Venezuelan Top 40 Albums Chart	CAPROFONO	1	Platinum	20,000

* In the UK multi-artist compilations are not eligible to the Top 200 Artist Albums chart.

Year-end charts

{| class="wikitable"
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! Year
! Country
! Chart
! Rank
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| 2007
| Germany
| IFPI
| #65

Singles

{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Single
!Singer(s)
!Chart
!Peak
|-
|rowspan="4"|2006
|rowspan="4"|"Breaking Free"
|rowspan="4"|Zac Efron, Drew Seeley* and Vanessa Anne Hudgens
|-
|US Billboard 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

|align="center"|4
|-
|Pop 100
|align="center"|6
|-
|UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

|align="center"|9
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="2"|"Get'cha Head in the Game"
|rowspan="2"|Drew Seeley*
|Hot 100
|align="center"|23
|-
|Pop 100
|align="center"|23
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="2"|"Start of Something New"
|rowspan="2"|Zac Efron, Drew Seeley* and Vanessa Anne Hudgens
|Hot 100
|align="center"|28
|-
|Pop 100
|align="center"|30
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="3"|"Stick to the Status Quo"
|rowspan="3"|High School Musical Cast

High School Musical

High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...

|Pop 100
|align="center"|37
|-
|Hot 100
|align="center"|43
|-
|2007
|UK Singles Chart
|align="center"|74
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="3"|"We're All in This Together"
|rowspan="3"|High School Musical Cast
|Pop 100
|align="center"|32
|-
|Hot 100
|align="center"|34
|-
|2007
|UK Singles Chart
|align="center"|40
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="2"|"What I've Been Looking For"
|rowspan="2"|Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel
|Pop 100
|align="center"|34
|-
|Hot 100
|align="center"|35
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="2"|"What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)"
|rowspan="2"| Drew Seeley* and Vanessa Anne Hudgens
|Pop 100
|align="center"|54
|-
|Hot 100
|align="center"|66
|-
|rowspan="2"|2006
|rowspan="2"|"When There Was Me and You"
|rowspan="2"|Vanessa Anne Hudgens
|Pop 100
|align="center"|55
|-
|Hot 100
|align="center"|71
|}

"Breaking Free" went from number #86 to #4 in its second week, an 82-point jump on the Hot 100.
"Get'cha Head in the Game" went from number #100 to #23 in its second week, a 77-point jump.
* Drew Seeley sang in several of the songs, his voice being mixed with Zac Efron's. He originally was not given credit for singing.

Composers

Six composing teams were hired to write the music. The score was written by David Lawrence

David Nessim Lawrence

David N. Lawrence is an American musical composer known primarily for his work on television and movie scores. In 2002, he won an ASCAP Award for his work on American Pie 2...

, and the songs' respective composers are as follows:

"Start of Something New", "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and "We’re All in This Together" by Matthew Gerrard & Robbie Nevil
Robbie Nevil
Robert S. "Robbie" Nevil is an American pop singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist. He is best known for his 1986 Billboard Hot 100 #2 hit, "C'est La Vie".-Life and career:...
"Stick to the Status Quo" by David Lawrence & Faye Greenberg
"Get'cha Head in the Game" by Ray Cham, Greg Cham, and Andrew Seeley
Andrew Seeley
Andrew Edgar "Drew" Seeley is a Canadian actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. He has recorded many songs for the Walt Disney Company...
"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 and You" by Jamie Houston

International versions

The album has been rerecorded and released in international versions with foreign language lyrics in some countries.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Song
!Original Name
!Language
!Singer(s)
!Country
|-
|"High School Musical"
|"High School Musical"
|Spanish
|Mota
|Spain
|-
|"High School Musical"
|"High School Musical"
|Spanish
|Reparto de "High School Musical: El Desafío"
|Mexico
|-
|"Классный мюзикл" (Klassny Myuzikl)
|"High School Musical"
|Russian
|Sergey Lazarev

Sergey Lazarev

Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev is a singer, dancer and actor born in Moscow, Russia. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as the dark-haired member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006...

Sunidhi Chauhan

Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....

, Neuman Pinto, Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit is an Indian Playback Singer, Song Writer and Live Performer Actor in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Telugu and Tamil film songs....

, Samantha Edwards, Suzanne D'Mello

Suzanne D'Mello

Suzanne D'Mello, formerly known as Suzie Q, is one of India's Top Female Vocalists. Gifted with a rich, warm and velvety voice, Suzanne's music spans a broad canvas, ranging from Solo Hits in Bollywood, Remixes, Advertisement Jingles to Live Performances with renowned musicians at prestigious...

& Dean D'Souza
|India
|
|}

International versions have also been released for individual singles.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Song
!Original Name
!Language
!Singer(s)
|-
|"Наверх в облака" (Naverkh v oblaka)
|"Start of Something New"
|Russian
|Sergey Lazarev

Sergey Lazarev

Belanova

Belanova are a Mexican synthpop band that formed in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 2000. The group consists of Denisse Guerrero , Edgar Huerta , and Ricardo "Richie" Arreola...

Hitomi Shimatani

, is a female pop singer signed to the Avex Trax label.Shimatani started her career as an Enka singer with the release of her debut single in 1999, but later decided to get into the dance/pop style for her music. Shimatani's music has also appeared in video games and also anime series.- Early life...

Vince Chong

Vincent Chong Ying-Cern , internationally known by his stage name Vince , is the first reality TV star to issue from Malaysian Akademi Fantasia. Chong is popular as a R&B-inclined singer-songwriter...

, Nikki Gil

Nikki Gil

Monica Pauline "Nikki" Gil is a Filipino singer, actress, host, model and myx VJ.-Biography:Monica Pauline Gil was born in Manila to Dino and Julie Gil. She is of Filipino, Spanish and German descent...

Luca Dirisio

Luca Dirisio is an Italian singer.-Biography:Luca was born to Cecelia and Luigi Dirisio, on June 18, 1978 in Vasto. Before starting singing, he was a promising player in the Italian youth soccer league, although late in his young career he broke his right femur during a match...

Anson Hu

Anson Hu is a male Chinese pop singer and songwriter.-Biography:From a young age, Anson Hu showed great interest in music. At age 13, he was admitted to Shanghai Music Conservatory where he majored in singing...

& Stephy Tang

Stephy Tang

Stephy Tang is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. She was formerly the lead singer of the pop group Cookies.-Early life:...

Conchita (musician)

Conchita is a Spanish singer.- Discography :- Singles :- External links :...

AAA (band)

, and also known as Attack All Around, is a Japanese pop band signed to the label Avex Trax which debuted in September 2005. The group originally consisted of five young men and three young women who had all acted in commercials and had been dancers for other Japanese stars, such as Ayumi Hamasaki...

|-
|"Мы все вместе" (My vse vmeste)
|"We're All in This Together"
|Russian
|Sergey Lazarev Kseniya Larina & Other
|}

Hindi versions

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Hindi Title
!align="left"|Original Name
!align="left"|Singer(s)
|-
|align="left"|"Yeh Man Gaaye Kyon"
|align="left"|"Start of Something New"
|align="left"|Naresh Kamath & Sunidhi Chauhan

Sunidhi Chauhan

Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit is an Indian Playback Singer, Song Writer and Live Performer Actor in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Telugu and Tamil film songs....

Sunidhi Chauhan

Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit is an Indian Playback Singer, Song Writer and Live Performer Actor in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Telugu and Tamil film songs....

& Neuman Pinto, (Chorus) Samantha Edwards, Suzanne D'Mello

Suzanne D'Mello

Sunidhi Chauhan

Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit is an Indian Playback Singer, Song Writer and Live Performer Actor in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Telugu and Tamil film songs....

Sunidhi Chauhan

Sunidhi Chauhan

, Neuman Pinto & Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit

Shweta Pandit is an Indian Playback Singer, Song Writer and Live Performer Actor in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Telugu and Tamil film songs....

, (Chorus) Samantha Edwards, Suzanne D'Mello

Suzanne D'Mello

& Dean D'Souza
|}

Release history

{|class="wikitable"
! Region
! Date
! Label
! Format
|-
| United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

| rowspan="2"|January 10, 2006
| rowspan="2"|Walt Disney

Walt Disney Records

| rowspan="5" align="center"|CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

|-
| Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

|-
| Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

| May 27, 2006
| rowspan="2"|EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

|-
| South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

| November 13, 2006
|-
| India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

| October 2006
| rowspan="2"|Times Music

The Times Group

The Times Group is the largest media conglomerate in India and is headed by brothers Samir and Vineet Jain.The company has eleven publishing centres, fifteen printing centres, fifty-five sales offices, Over 7000 employees, five dailies, including two of the largest in the country with approx 4.3...

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High School Musical 2-disc Special edition

Charts performances

Year-end charts

Singles

Composers

International versions

Hindi versions

Release history

See also

External links