High School Musical 2 Soundtrack Sets Record For Worst Best-Seller Ever Zac Effron Rolling Stone cover

SoundScan has announced that the High School Musical 2 soundtrack (featuring Rolling Stone cover boy Zac Efron) is the highest-selling album of 2007. Having only sold 2.3 million copies, the sequel soundtrack also set the notable record for lowest number of copies sold by the year’s best-selling album (slightly comforting news if you’re not a record exec or tween). Each year since 2004 the best-selling album’s final tally has steadily declined and the dubious distinction of lowest-achieving chart topper previously belonged to (you guessed it) - last year’s High School Musical soundtrack, which sold 3.7 million copies. With High School Musical 3 set for 2008, expect Kanye West to challenge Efron for chart dominance next year.

Could this clip from The Soup be an eerie prediction of the next two years’ chart-toppers?

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