The Starship soundtrack contains the songs from the musical of the same name

Starship (musical)

Starship is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss, and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden, and Joe Walker.Starship is about an alien planet inhabited by giant insects, called Bug-World...

 produced by Team StarKid

Team StarKid

StarKid Productions, also known as Team StarKid, is a student-created theatre production troupe formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded in 2009 by theatre students at the University of Michigan...

, with music and lyrics by Darren Criss

Darren Criss

Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and a founding member and co-owner of the theater company StarKid Productions. He currently portrays Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the FOX television series Glee...

, and book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden, and Joe Walker. It was recorded by the musical's cast and was released digitally

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 on April 30th, 2011 through iTunes

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 and Amazon.com

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. The soundtrack debuted at No. 134 on Billboard 200

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 and No. 1 for Top Cast Albums. The album also reached No. 4 on iTunes

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.

Track listing

Personnel

Featured Performers

Actor/Actress	Character
Joey Richter Joey Richter Joseph Michael "Joey" Richter is an American actor, singer, and internet personality. Richter rose to fame co-starring as Ron Weasley in the fan-parody musicals, A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel , created by University of Michigan theatre group, Team StarKid...	Bug
Joe Walker	Up
Lauren Lopez	Taz Bugette Bugington
Dylan Saunders	Tootsie Noodles Pincer
Denise Donovan	February
Brian Holden	Junior Veeto Mosquito
Meredith Stepien	Mega-Girl
Julia Albain	Specs
Brant Cox	Roach
Jim Povolo	The Overqueen Sweetheart Mosquito
Joe Moses	Krayonder
Jaime Lyn Beatty	Neato Mosquito
Nick Lang	The Caller Bug Mister Bug

Credits

• Jack Stratton – producer
  Record producer
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  , mixer
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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  , drum
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  s, percussion
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  , keyboard
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  s, synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  s, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Clark Baxtresser – piano
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• Darren Criss
  Darren Criss
  Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and a founding member and co-owner of the theater company StarKid Productions. He currently portrays Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the FOX television series Glee...
  
   – guitar

Chart performance

Chart (2011)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	134
US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Cast Albums Billboard charts The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...	1
US iTunes Top Albums ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....	4

External Links

• Team StarKid official website
• Star Kid Productions on YouTube
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