HSM2 Casts Off Casting Crowns
Watch out Broadway, High School Musical's on an extended run.
Just as kids head back to school, the High School Musical 2 soundtrack becomes the first album in a year and a half to spend three weeks at number one. For the week ended Sunday, HSM2 accomplished this feat selling another 209,000 copies, according to the latest SoundScan numbers.
While albums like Dreamgirls, Daughtry, Now! 25 and Hannah Montana spent a pair of weeks at number one, HSM2 is the first to score a trey since Rascal Flatts' Me & My Gang in April of '06.
The soundtrack's three-week run now checks in at nearly 1.2 million copies, though the latest chart featured no less than four Top 10 challengers.
Christian rock's hottest act, Casting Crowns, led the new debuts with their third studio album, Altar and the Door, selling 129,000 copies at number two. The Grammy-winning group previously opened at nine with 2005's Lifesong, which has since gone platinum like its self-titled predecessor.
Crowns' hometown, Atlanta, also claims the week's number three bow, Yung Joc's Hustlenomics. The Peach State rapper, who also opened at three with last year's New Joc City, sold 60,000 copies of his sophomore disc.
Though already ruling the chart with his Disney Channel soundtrack, Mickey can put another feather in his cap for Atreyu, an O.C. metal act on Disney's Hollywood label, which sold 43,000 copies of Lead Sails Paper Anchor at eight.
The ever-prolific Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals landed the fourth and final Top 10 bow with Lifeline, which sold 41,000 copies at nine. Lifeline is the group's eighth studio album in 13 years.
As with the top spot, the rest of the Top 10 are familiar faces: Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus at four, Fergie's The Dutchess at five, the Hairspray soundtrack at six and Now That's What I Call Music! 25 at seven. Nickelback closed out the Top 10 at ten with All the Right Reasons, which celebrated its 100th week on the charts this week.
Lyle Lovett came up big – make that large – at 18 selling 25,000 copies of It's Not Big It's Large. Christian rockers MercyMe followed at 43 with Coming Up to Breathe selling 15,000 copies.
Other noteworthy debuts included the Kottonmouth Kings' Cloud Nine at 44, Aesop Rock's None Shall Pass at 50, Caedmon's Call's Overdressed at 54, Point of Grace's How You Live at 56, Shane & Shane's Pages at 66, Ledisi's Lost & Found at 78 and Scary Kids Scaring Kids' self-titled at 80.
To recap, the week's Top 10 albums are as follows:
- High School Musical 2 soundtrack, various
- Altar and the Door, Casting Crowns
- Hustlenomics, Yung Joc
- Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus
- The Dutchess, Fergie
- Hairspray soundtrack, various
- Now That's What I Call Music! 25, various
- Lead Sails Paper Anchor, Atreyu
- Lifeline, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
- All the Right Reasons, Nickelback
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