10 Fun Facts About HSM2

It's time for another 10 Fun Facts list. This time, we're doing it on High School Musical 2!

1. When High School Musical 2 premiered on August 17, 2008, it broke many records, the most notable being the most-watched basic cable premiere ever, with 17.24 million viewers! Since then, it has been beaten out.
2. The soundtrack was the second highest-selling album in 2007.
3. The soundtrack lists "You Are the Music in Me (Sharpay Version)" as the bonus track, meaning that the song was not in the film. However, in the movie, the song is in the film, but "Humahumanukunukuapua'a" is not.
4. In the summer leading up the film's premiere, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Tisdale were becoming global stars and their names were being recognized by all age groups.
5. This is the first Disney Channel Original Movie to have a weekly miniseries devoted to showing the behind-the-scenes process of the film. Other movies have 2-5 "DCOM Extras", while this movie got 16 minidocumentaries.
6. The High School Musical ice tour combines this movie and the first movie.
7. A stage show of the film has been announced.
8. Corbin Bleu, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Tisdale reportedly held out for more money for this film.
9. The film was primarily shot in the winter and early spring, despite taking place in the summer.
10. The grass in front of East High was spraypainted a brighter green specifically for shooting this movie.