So yesterday, a picture that was rumored to be of
High School Musical star/Zac Efron paramour Vanessa Hudgens in the buff made its way around the Internet, with various people (including the
celebrity-nude forensic investigators at the NSFW Fleshbot) figuring that the picture was faked somehow. Well, surprise surprise:
Hudgens' reps confirmed the picture as real late last night, thus setting off freak-outs all over the Web's gossip sites. But there's another issue at hand: How will this mini-scandal affect the sales of the
High School Musical 2 soundtrack, which has had a vise-like grip over the
Billboard 200's summit since it hit stores last month? We asked our resident chart guru
Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy for his take on how this shot might affect the fate of one of the few albums that's actually shifting units these days. His analysis follows:
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In two weeks, the soundtrack to Disney's High School Musical 3 will land in stores, the final album in the trilogy of records that helped make adults who didn't have children realize that the Mouse was still a force to be reckoned with in terms of delivering squeaky-clean pop music to the next generation. But will 3 give a boost to the album chart similar to those bestowed upon it by its two predecessors, which sold four million and 3.3 million copies, respectively?
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