"HSM 2" Debuts Atop the Charts

Here’s an item that shouldn’t surprise anyone…

The soundtrack to “High School Musical 2” debuted at #1 this week on the Billboard 200, after selling 615,000 copies. That makes it the second biggest first-week sales tally of the year (Linkin Park’s “Minutes to Midnight” moved 623,000.). And remember that most of these sales came before the movie even premiered…

Disney also owns the #2 spot on the album chart with “Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus,” which sold another 83,000 copies…

You can listen to the “High School Musical 2” soundtrack at http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds.

Meanwhile, the ratings are in for the rest of the “HSM 2” weekend and they’re strong as well. 8.4 million tuned in Saturday and 7.5 million watched Sunday’s sing-along.

“High School Musical 2” airs again Thursday, August 23rd at 8 p.m. on Disney Channel. Then, it will take a break until September when it will return with a dance-along edition…