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Disney Music Group Dominates Charts with Three Records in the Top Ten.


High School Musical 2 and Hannah Montana Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.  2 / Meet Miley Cyrus Claim the Two Top Slots; Jonas Brothers Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.  Remain in Top Ten on The Billboard 200 Chart

BURBANK, Calif. -- Disney Music Group is celebrating three titles in the Top Ten today. The Billboard 200 chart for the week ending September 1, 2007 list High School Musical 2 Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records Walt Disney Records is a record company and part of The Walt Disney Company.

The label was established in 1956 under the name Disneyland Records; its first release was A Child's Garden of Verses. The company changed to its current name in 1989.
) at #1, Hannah Montana 2 / Meet Miley Cyrus (Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
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 Records/Hollywood Records) at #2, and Jonas Brothers (Hollywood Records) self titled album at #8. DMG (Disk iMaGe) The file format used in the Macintosh for distributing Mac software. Mac install packages appear as a virtual disk drive on the Mac as if you had inserted a CD or floppy disk.  has a total of 8 titles in the Top 50 including High School Musical soundtrack (WDR WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk (German radio and TV station)
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) at #16, Plain White T's Every Second Counts (Hollywood) at #28 and Hannah Montana soundtrack (WDR) at #34, Aly & AJ's Insomniatic (Hollywood) at #46 and Rascal Flatts' Me and My Gang (Lyric Street Records) at #50.

The High School Musical 2 soundtrack shattered industry records by becoming the first soundtrack from a Disney Channel Original Movie to debut on The Billboard 200 at #1 selling over 615,000 units in its first week and shipping double platinum (2 million units). The platinum-certified Hannah Montana 2 / Meet Miley Cyrus two-disc release was released on June 26 and has spent 7 consecutive weeks in the Top 5 on The Billboard 200, scanning over 1,088,000 units to date. Jonas Brothers' debut album for Hollywood entered The Billboard 200 last week at #5, and was the first CD to be released in CDVU+, a new multi-media interactive format that is 100% recyclable. Jonas Brothers' new single "S.O.S," shot to #1 on i-Tunes immediately after its release last week.

In January 2007, three DMG titles were ranked as top-selling albums of 2006 by Nielsen SoundScan -- High School Musical soundtrack #1, Rascal Flatts' Me & My Gang #2 and Hannah Montana soundtrack #8.

The Disney Music Group encompasses all of the Walt Disney Studio's recorded music and music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music.  operations, including Hollywood Records, Walt Disney Records, Lyric Street Records and Walt Disney Music Publishing.
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