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WTH!!!
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'FREE' THROW: Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens are actors, so it's likely their goals include winning Oscars and Emmys and perhaps one day being honored with stars on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. Neither one probably ever dreamed of making chart history on The Billboard Hot 100, but they've done so anyway, as their duet "Breaking Free" (Walt Disney), from the soundtrack to "High School Musical," rockets 86-4. That is the Hot 100's biggest one-week jump of all time.
With no airplay, "Breaking Free" makes its 82-point rise based on digital downloads. Whatever the reason for the move, it beats the previous record, the 75-place leap that Shanice took with "When I Close My Eyes." Her 91-16 rise the week of April 3, 1999 broke the record set just one year earlier, when Montell Jordan bounded 94-20 with "I Can Do That." Jordan's move tied the 74-point record set in 1968, when Jeannie C. Riley leapt 81-7 the week of Aug. 31, 1968 with her first single, "Harper Valley P.T.A."
While Jordan tied the record for a one-week jump and Shanice broke it, there is one record that Riley has kept all this time: the biggest leap into the top 10. Now, after almost 38 years, Efron and Hudgens have bested the "Harper Valley P.T.A." jump by eight positions.
Last week, Efron also made some chart history when he debuted on the Hot 100 with his first two entries, "Breaking Free" at No. 86 and "Get'cha Head in the Game," another "High School Musical" track, at No. 100. That made him the first debut artist to begin a chart career with two simultaneous debuts.
Efron managed to become the first debut artist to have two simultaneous new entries by only one week. That feat has now been repeated by two other stars from "High School Musical." Lucas Gabreel and Ashley Tisdale debut at No. 35 with "What I've Been Looking For" and at No. 62 with "Bop to the Top."
The "High School Musical" soundtrack is turning out to be one of the most potent soundtracks of all time, with nine original songs on the Hot 100, and five in the top 40, another record. On Hot Digital Songs, the student bodies of "High School Musical" are occupying nine slots, with four songs in the top 10 and the other five all in the top 40.
The top four debuts on this week's Hot 100 are all from the TV soundtrack, including the highest-debuting single of 2006, "Start of Something New" by Efron and Hudgens. That same duo also bows at No. 67 with "What I've Been Looking for (Reprise)." Since Hudgens has another debut, "When There Was Me and You" at No. 72, and with Efron's "Get'cha Head in the Game" at No. 23, Efron and Hudgens have each earned their first four chart entries within their first two weeks on the Hot 100 (and if you include the two tracks credited to High School Musical Cast, they actually hae six songs on the chart). No one has done that before -- not even the Beatles. The Fab Four took four weeks to rack up their first four chart entries back in 1964.
Getting back to "Get'cha Head in the Game," its 100-23 climb appears to be the biggest move from the anchor position. The previous record-holder was Wings' "Hi Hi Hi," which flew 100-42 the week of Dec. 23, 1972.
And if all of this rewriting of chart history isn't enough, there's still one more accomplishment to report. By blasting its way to No. 4, "Breaking Free" is the Walt Disney label's highest-ranked Hot 100 song in history. The label had a No. 6 hit last year with Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway," which appeared on "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement" soundtrack.
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amazing!!!). 
Although, it was quite obvious, the lipsyncing wasn't hid well and I just think they could have made a little better attempt at trying to make it look more natural. 
omg, it is getting a little scary.