High School Musical Top 5 Facts

The High School Musical album went Number 1 on the Billboard Charts in the US 3 weeks after it was released and Number 1 in Australia in it's 7th week.

Director Adam Shankman described Zac Efron (who plays Troy Bolton), as "arguably the biggest teen star in America right now".

There has already been a sequal, with more films planned!

Before she was in High School Musical, Vanessa Anne Hudgens (who plays Gabriela Montez) was in the highly controversial indie film Thirteen, which came out in 2003.

7.7 Million Americans tuned in to watch High School Musical in it's premier broadcast!!