''Mitchel Musso'' is the debut album by

Mitchel Musso Mitchel Tate Musso (born July 9, 1991) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his three Disney Channel roles as Oliver Oken in '' Hannah Montana''; Jeremy Johnson in the animated series ''Phineas and Ferb''; and his Disney XD r ...

. The album was released under

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on June 2, 2009.

Background

Musso worked with

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, Dave Katz, Bryan Todd, Justin Gray, Curt Schneider,

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, and other producers and songwriters to produce the album in both Los Angeles and New York. Musso himself also contributed co-writing on two songs of the album's thirteen tracks. Mitchel sings solo on all of the tracks except two titled "Us Against the World" and "Shout It". The two are a duet featuring singer Katelyn Tarver and Musso's brother

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respectively. Musso stated: "But actually my favorite song off my album is a duet, "Us Against the World" and it's my favorite song. I feel like it's got the most uh, it's kind of a dark vibe but at the same time it's a really upbeat like uh, I would say a happy song. And I think the girls voice, her name's Katelyn Tarver, so it was awesome getting her on the track." "Let's Make This Last 4Ever" was featured on an episode of ''

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'' and is also a track on the ''

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'' soundtrack. "Hey" was used as the theme song to

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Release

The album was released on June 2, 2009. The physical CD includes a fold-out

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of Musso. They also include an exclusive stream of "Let's Make This Last 4Ever", which will be available once the album is purchased. Musso promoted the album by setting out on a summer tour with over 54 scheduled dates across the United States and Canada. The band KSM opened for him on a select number of dates. Musso also performed as the opening act for his older brother's band

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on 9 dates between July 23 and August 14, 2009. Honor Society also opened for some of his shows. Musso promoted the album by performing three songs off the album at the Wango Tango music festival in Los Angeles on May 9, 2009.

Commercial performance

''Katlyn:The Soundtrack'' debuted at number three on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and US Top Soundtracks chart with 126,000 units sold in its first week, becoming the biggest debut for a TV soundtrack in the year. It ended up in the 61st position on ''Billboards list of top-selling albums of 2008 and charted for 46 weeks. The soundtrack was certified Gold in July 2008 and Platinum in March 2009 selling over 1 million units in the country. It also debuted at number nineteen on the

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and received a Gold certification in the same year. The soundtrack charted outside of the United States in Australia, Norway, Germany, United Kingdom.

Singles

"Hey" was released as

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from the album. Musso filmed a music video for the song and the video premiered on

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on May 15, 2009. The song debuted at number 70 on the ''

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. "Shout It" was announced as a single by Musso in his official Twitter page. The music video for the song, which features scenes from his tour, was released on September 29, 2009, on iTunes. ;Other songs "The in Crowd" was released as a promotional single on December 5, 2008. A music video was launched on

in early March.

Track listing

Exclusive packages

;Physical CD * Fold out poster of Musso * CD unlocks an exclusive stream of the song "Let's Make This Last 4Ever"

Other recorded tracks

# "Leavin'" # "Let's Go" # "Wasn't Your Girlfriend" # "White Striped Gloves"

Charts

In its first week of release the album sold 20,000 units, which put it at #19 on the ''Billboard'' 200. As of August 2009, the album has sold over 100,000 copies in the U.S.

International release

The album was released in the UK on August 24 and in Spain released on August 25. Residents in the UK could listen to full tracks from the album until August 31 on Disney My Page.

Personnel

* Dwight A. Baker - Drums, Engineer * James Bourne - Vocals (background) * Alex Bush - Engineer * Andreas Carlsson - Guitar * Randy Cooke - Drums * Simon Curtis - Vocals (background) * Eddie Galan - Producer, Vocals (background) * Steven "Stizzle" Schneider - Co-Producer, Programming * Steve Gerdes - Art Direction, Design * Jason Gleed - Producer * Taylor Harris - Vocal Editing * David Krauklis - Drums * Kenny Livingston - Drums * Gavin MacKillop - Engineer * Brian Malouf - Executive Producer, Mixing * Stephen Marcussen - Mastering * Mason Musso - Vocals (background) * Mitchel Musso - Vocals (lead & background) * Tim Pagnotta - Guitar, Keyboards, Producer, Engineer * Brett Rosenberg - Guitar * Curt Schneider - Synthesizer, Bass, Producer, Engineer, Mixing * Blair Sinta - Drums *

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- Bass, Guitar, Engineer * Gavin Taylor - Design * Ali "Dee" Theodore - Producer * Bryan Todd - Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing * Graham Ward - Drums * Bruce Watson - Guitar

References

External links

Official Website

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