High School Musical 2 is currently the most successful DCOM in terms of popularity and

accolades, setting a basic cable record for the single most-watched television program, as its
August 2007 debut was watched by 17.2 million viewers[24](counting sports, this record stood until
a December 3, 2007 telecast of a New England Patriots-Baltimore Ravens game on corporate
sibling ESPN's Monday Night Football, which was watched by 17.5 million viewers). The Cheetah
Girls films were also notably successful in terms of merchandise and sales for its concert tour and
soundtrack albums. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney
Channel's history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second
movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U.S. An 86-
date concert tour featuring the group was ranked as one of the top 10 concert tours of 2006; the
tour broke a record at the Houston Rodeo that was set by Elvis Presley in 1973, selling out with
73,500 tickets sold in three minutes.
In addition to its made-for-cable films, Disney Channel has rights to theatrically released feature
films, with some film rights shared with sister network Freeform. Along with films released by Walt
Disney Studios Motion Pictures (mainly consisting of releases from Walt Disney Pictures, Walt
Disney Animation Studios and Pixar), the channel also maintains rights to films from other
studios. Some films released by Bagdasarian Productions (such as The Chipmunk
Adventure and Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein) have also aired on Disney Channel,
although most of them are not presently owned by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.