Getting Tired of Troy and Gabriella? Buy Your Kids a High School Musical DVD

It’s been two years since the happy executives of Disney Channel launched High School Musical on TV, and it’s been two years too that you, as a parent, have been barraged by the tune of “We’re All In This Together,” and “Get’cha Head In The Game” the tunes literally ring non-stop in your head.  As if this were not enough, your kids have been begging, nagging, sweet-talking, and bullying you (not necessarily in this order) to buy a High School Musical DVD.  If you’re drowning, this last request is like pushing your head down under water!  What? More High School Musical?

What is with this High School Musical DVD that, after all the HSM1 and HSM2 talks, songs, toys, concert tour, and ice tour, everyone’s kids are still punishing parents for it?

RECORD BREAKING SMASH HIT!

High School Musical debuted January of 2006, and it grossed way more than any TV movie has ever grossed, you’d say it made Disney obscenely rich several times over.  It broke all records in terms of number of viewers watching a movie premier on TV all over the United States.  As if this were not enough to make the Disney executives drown in their millions, their launch in Asia even went bigger!  Before ou buy that High School Musical DVD, consider these figures:
 

• High School Musical 1 was watched by 7.7 million viewers on its premier.  This is the highest rating cable TV broadcast ever.
• It was watched by 789,000 viewers when it debuted in the U.K.  This makes it the most watched show in the UK Disney Channel.

And we’re just talking about the movie.  If we take the High School Musical DVD, toys, concert tours, ice tours, High School Musical game boards, and soundtrack albums in the equation, you get astronomical income that would send these happy Disney executives laughing all the way to the bank.  Consider these figures:
 

• The High School Musical soundtrack hit the market around the same period in January of 2006 and immediately debuted on Billboard 200 and aggressively climbed to the number 10 spot on its third week and went on to become number 1 twice.  It sold 7,469 copies on its first week in store shelves alone.
• By December of the same year, the album shipped 3.8 million copies and 3 million of these were sold by August.
• In Australia, it was certified platinum on the third month since its release and has sold 70,000 copies.

And we haven’t included data on High School Musical DVD sales yet!  

Trying to get a grasp of this phenomenon would be very difficult unless you can see that, yes, despite the two movies’ flaws, they promote positive values.  And our word of advice (and no, we are not promoters of Disney Channel): buy your kids the High School Musical DVD.   Who knows, constant watching of the movie may tire them off!