The Cheetah Girls 2 Soundtrack Debuts at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart; Soundtrack from Disney Channel Original Movie Secures the #1 Spot on Both the Billboard Soundtrack and Kids Chart

Business Wire, August 23, 2006

BURBANK, Calif. -- One week after its August 15th release, the soundtrack to the highly anticipated Disney Channel Original Movie, The Cheetah Girls 2, debuts on the Billboard Top 200 Chart at #5 after scanning over 87,000 units for the week of August 16 (according to Nielsen SoundScan). In addition, the soundtrack garnered the #1 spot on the Billboard Kids Chart and the #1 position on the Billboard Soundtrack Chart. The Cheetah Girls 2 -- starring Raven Symone, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams -- premieres on Disney Channel August 25th (8:00 p.m., ET/PT).

The chart-topping soundtrack to The Cheetah Girls 2 follows the success of the soundtrack to the Disney Channel Original Movie The Cheetah Girls, which in 2003 was the #1 basic cable movie among Kids 6-11 and Tweens 9-14. The Cheetah Girls double-platinum soundtrack became the #2 best-selling soundtrack for 2004, reached #1 on Billboard's Kids and Soundtrack charts and remained on the Billboard Top 200 chart for an incredible 62 weeks.

The Disney Channel Original Movie sequel, The Cheetah Girls 2, takes the talented teen quartet on a whirlwind Catalan adventure as they pursue their dreams of pop superstardom. Popular Mexican recording artist and actress Belinda Peregrin is introduced in her first English-speaking role as a would-be rival to The Cheetah Girls as they compete in the Barcelona music festival and see their dreams of stardom -- and their faith in The Cheetah Girl credo itself -- threatened.

The Cheetah Girls 2 movie is the newest project from Emmy(R) Award-winning director and choreographer Kenny Ortega, the mastermind behind this year's High School Musical phenomenon. Emmy(R) Award-nominated songwriting and producing talent contributing to the The Cheetah Girls 2 include Jamie Houston, Robbie Nevil, David Lawrence and Matthew Gerrard.

Since 2003, The Cheetah Girls have ruled the kids music charts with the singles "Cinderella," "Girl Power," "Together We Can" and "Cheetah Sisters" from the original The Cheetah Girls soundtrack; "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" from Disney's Hercules for the top-selling Disneymania 3 CD and concert DVD; their version of the Ray Charles classic "Shake a Tail Feather" from the Walt Disney Pictures film Chicken Little; and the title track from the group's 2005 A Cheetalicious Christmas CD. The Cheetah Girls' extraordinary success also has yielded Walt Disney Records' The Cheetah Girls Karaoke CD (February 2004) and The Cheetah Girls Special Edition Soundtrack (June 2004). The latter coincided with the June 2004 Buena Vista Home Entertainment release The Cheetah Girls Movie on DVD, which quickly reached sales of one million copies.