Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show
2011 soundtrack album by Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show is the debut soundtrack album for the Nickelodeon TV series Victorious. It was released on August 2, 2011, by Nickelodeon Records, in association with Columbia. Most of the album was sung by the lead actress of the television series, Victoria Justice. The other singers featured on the album include Ariana Grande, Elizabeth Gillies, Leon Thomas III, and Miranda Cosgrove. It is a pop and teen pop album that includes songs with lyrical themes about love, friendship, and self-worth. Critical commentary for the album was generally positive, with praise towards its production.
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| Released | August 2, 2011 | |||
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| Length | 36:52 | |||
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Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show was supported by five singles. "Freak the Freak Out", "Beggin' on Your Knees", and "Best Friend's Brother" all charted on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, while "Make It Shine" and "You're the Reason" appeared on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. It debuted on the US Billboard 200 albums chart at number five with 41,000 copies sold. It also peaked at number one on the US Billboard Kid Albums and Soundtracks charts. Outside the United States, the album peaked in the top 70 of record charts in Austria, Spain, and Switzerland.
Music structure and lyrics
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Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show is primarily a pop and teen pop record.[1][2][3] It features the heavy usage of synthesizers, drum machine and Auto-Tune.[1] The album's lyrical themes explore topics about love, friendship, and the affirmation of self-worth.[1][4] The album opens with "Make It Shine", the theme song for Victorious.[5][6] Musically, the track is a pop,[7] teen pop,[1] and pop rock,[8] song with lyrics about encouraging people to follow their dreams.[4][9] "Freak the Freak Out" is a rock-influenced[8] teen pop,[1] funk, and dance song that is about a girl who is fighting with her unresponsive boyfriend.[4][10] "Best Friend's Brother" is an upbeat and uptempo pop and synth-pop song.[11][12][13][14] It features Justice having a crush over her friend's older brother.[11][15]
"Beggin' on Your Knees" is a pop and synth-pop track that has Justice wanting to get revenge on her cheating ex-boyfriend.[4][8][16] "All I Want Is Everything" references musicians Madonna and Michael Jackson and has lyrics about wanting to achieve fame.[1][4] "You're the Reason" is a slow-tempo pop and electro ballad.[12][17][18] The song's lyrics center on a strange but supportive person who helps their friend gain greater self-confidence.[4] "Give It Up", which features Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies on vocals, is a pop,[19][20] teen pop,[21] and R&B song.[8][19] Its lyrics are about a girl inviting a boy to approach them.[4] The next track is a bubblegum pop cover version of the Jackson 5's 1969 hit single "I Want You Back".[1][2][22]
"Song 2 You" features Justice and Leon Thomas III singing about falling in love and finding that it doesn't depend on material possessions like designer clothes.[1][4][23] "Tell Me That You Love Me" also features Justice and Thomas on vocals. The lyrics are about a couple continuing to be in love despite all the tough times they have together.[4] "Finally Falling" is a pop rock ballad that has Justice singing about her and her boyfriend choosing love over material possessions.[4][8][24] The album ends with "Leave It All to Shine", a mashup of the theme songs from Victorious ("Make It Shine") and iCarly ("Leave It All to Me"), featuring vocals from Justice and Miranda Cosgrove.[1][2][25][26] The iTunes version of the album concludes with "Broken Glass" that has Matt Bennett on vocals.[27]
Singles
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"Make It Shine" was released as the lead single on April 13, 2010.[28][29] It peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[30] "Freak the Freak Out" was released as the second single from the soundtrack on November 22, 2010.[31][32] The song received a music video which was released in November 2010, and features Justice and the Victorious cast dancing with other people.[33][34] The song peaked at number 50 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 176 on the UK Singles Chart.[35][36][37] "Beggin' on Your Knees" was released as the third single on April 1, 2011.[38][39] A music video was released on March 12, 2011, and features Justice and the Victorious cast hanging out at a carnival.[40][41] The song peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100.[42]
"Best Friend's Brother" was issued as the fourth single from the album on May 20, 2011.[43][44] A music video was released in May 2011 and features Justice dreaming about her friend's older brother.[45] It peaked at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100.[42] "You're the Reason" was released as the fifth and final single on December 3, 2011.[17][46] An acoustic rendition of the song was released on the same day as the single's release.[47] A music video for the acoustic version of "You're the Reason" was released in December 2011. It features Justice playing the piano on a beach.[17][48] The song peaked at number 24 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[30]
Other songs
"Leave It All to Shine" was released on June 10, 2011, as a promotional single and peaked at number 24 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[30][49] "I Want You Back" and "Give It Up" also charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, with "I Want You Back" peaking at number eight and "Give It Up" reaching number 23.[30][50] A music video for "All I Want Is Everything" was released in September 2011 and has Justice attempting to impress her crush.[51][52]
Reception
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| AbsolutePunk | 72%[2] |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B-[3] |
Bob Hoose and Steven Isaac for Plugged In stated that Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show has "well-rehearsed, clean-sounding vocals, backdropped by catchy tunes". They thought that the songs in the album sounded like a "well-produced derivatives of other songs you may have heard resting at the top of the charts lately".[4] Joe DeAndrea, writing for AbsolutePunk, gave the album a 72 percent, opining the songs in it "aren't even all that bad". He stated that the songs featuring Justice "could work perfectly as Katy Perry or Pink material" and could be a "staple of your summer".[2]
In a more negative review, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann rated the album three stars out of five, saying that the music in the album was "cookie-cutter" in nature.[1] Kyle Anderson, writing for Entertainment Weekly, gave Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show a B− rating. He remarked that Justice and the Victorious cast "dress-up with a closetful of song and personality styles, but never find the right fit." Anderson noted that Justice is "best as the prom queen scorned", but felt she "otherwise gets lost in a mirror maze of impeccably dull tween popcraft".[3]
Commercial performance
Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show debuted and peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 41,000 copies sold.[53][54][55] The album peaked at number five on the US Digital Albums chart and US Top Current Album Sales chart.[56][57] It also charted at number one on the US Kid Albums chart and US Billboard Soundtrack Albums chart.[58][59] Outside the United States, the album peaked at number 35 in Austria,[60] number 36 in Spain,[61] number 69 in Switzerland,[62] and number 100 in Germany.[63] It further charted at number 66 on the UK Album Downloads chart,[64] number 13 on the UK Soundtrack Albums chart,[65] and number ten on the UK Compilation Albums chart.[66] Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show was certified silver in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling 60,000 units.[67]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Make It Shine" (Victorious Theme) | Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 3:07 | |
| 2. | "Freak the Freak Out" |
| Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 3:54 |
| 3. | "Best Friend's Brother" |
| Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 3:38 |
| 4. | "Beggin' on Your Knees" |
| Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 3:13 |
| 5. | "All I Want Is Everything" | Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 3:02 | |
| 6. | "You're the Reason" |
| Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 2:53 |
| 7. | "Give It Up" |
| Victorious cast featuring Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande | 2:45 |
| 8. | "I Want You Back" | The Corporation | Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 2:59 |
| 9. | "Song 2 You" |
| Victorious cast featuring Leon Thomas III and Victoria Justice | 3:38 |
| 10. | "Tell Me That You Love Me" |
| Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice and Leon Thomas III | 2:41 |
| 11. | "Finally Falling" |
| Victorious cast featuring Victoria Justice | 2:50 |
| 12. | "Leave It All to Shine" |
| iCarly and Victorious casts featuring Miranda Cosgrove and Victoria Justice | 2:12 |
| Total length: | 36:52 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 13. | "Broken Glass" | Schneider | Victorious cast featuring Matt Bennett | 2:25 |
| Total length: | 39:17 | |||
Charts
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Certifications and sales
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[67] | Silver | 60,000‡ |
| United States | — | 41,000[53] |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
References
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