What Time Is It?

Album: High School Musical 2 (2007)
Charted: 20 6
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Songfacts®:

  • This song spent 16 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles Sales chart in 2007 before dropping to #2. It then returned to the top spot and after a second further week at the summit, making it 18 weeks at peak position, "What Time Is It" became the longest-running chart-topper in the history of this chart. The previous record-holder was Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," #1 for 17 weeks in 1991.
  • It appeared for a long time that High School Musical 2 would be the top-selling album of all those released in 2007, but in the final weeks of December it was overtaken by Josh Groban's Noel. However it did achieve the feat of becoming the first ever soundtrack of a television movie to debut at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.

Comments: 2

  • Ashley from City, IaWhat time is it? Time for this movie series to end!
  • Pippin from Rhye, CaMy sister is obsessed with High School Musical (which I hate). When she asks what time it is, I say: "Not summertime." Except when it's really summer, of course.
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