‘Camp Rock 3’ Scores The Series Another Hit — But The Franchise Flags

Aug 31, 2026 07:45 PM - 1 hour ago 2

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There was a play of clip erstwhile Disney Channel original movies reached acold beyond the network’s regular demographic and became defining moments successful popular culture. A fistful of titles drew monolithic viewership numbers and besides produced albums and songs that did incredibly good connected the Billboard charts. High School Musical is possibly the champion remembered and biggest of that cadre, but it was not the only Disney Channel franchise that overperformed.

The Camp Rock bid was instantly different monolithic triumph from the infinitesimal it deed the mini screen, and the task helped move some the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato into moreover greater stars much than a decade and a half ago. Camp Rock arrived successful 2008, and a sequel quickly followed 2 years later.

The 3rd installment did not premiere connected Disney Channel until earlier this month, erstwhile Camp Rock 3 premiered connected the accepted web earlier launching connected Disney+ a time later. As was the lawsuit pinch the first 2 films, Camp Rock 3 came pinch a cautiously constructed pop-rock soundtrack, 1 which helps present respective caller stars – and the Jonas Brothers moreover execute the opening number arsenic their fictional group Connect 3. The caller soundtrack only manages to scope a azygous Billboard tally this framework arsenic it underperforms erstwhile compared to its predecessors.

Camp Rock 3 Debuts Inside the Top 10

Camp Rock 3 debuts astatine No. 9 connected Billboard’s Soundtracks chart, becoming a speedy apical 10 hit. The tally looks only astatine the most-consumed soundtrack albums successful the United States, pinch capacity and placement wished by the income and streaming activity generated by the task – and their individual tunes – during each search period.

Camp Rock 3 Falls Short of the First Two Films

All 3 Camp Rock projects person reached Billboard’s Soundtracks chart. The first 2 spent clip astatine No. 1, truthful Camp Rock 3 is the first installment successful the franchise to neglect to tally the show. Coincidentally, Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam besides peaked successful the aforesaid position connected the Billboard 200, arsenic the 2 stalled astatine No. 3.

Camp Rock 3, meanwhile, misses not only the Billboard 200 – the ranking of the most-consumed albums and EPs successful the federation – but besides some the Top Album Sales and Top Streaming Albums charts. The Billboard 200 is built each week utilizing some income and streaming activity, but the newly-released soundtrack did not execute good capable successful either arena to scope the main roster aliases either of the 2 much circumstantial lists.

Only Two Soundtracks Debut This Week

Camp Rock 3 is 1 of only 2 debuts connected this week’s Soundtracks chart. Helluva Boss: Season 2 arrives astatine No. 18. At the aforesaid time, Frozen: The Songs returns to the ranking astatine No. 6. It is the sole comeback this period. Somewhat surprisingly, contempt the tremendous fame of the Frozen franchise and the occurrence of “Let It Go,” that compilation ne'er reached No. 1 connected the Soundtracks tally. Instead, it stalled 1 rung short of the throne, astatine No. 2.