Victorious Tv Show Songs

[Martha Vanschaick]

Ilove this song a lot! I really like the performance, and this was actually one of the episodes of the show that I remembered most. Hell, Tori is literally wearing a zombie mask and still killing it! She can rock anything, and Beck... I mean, you cannot go wrong with him. I only wish we got some more songs for Beck to be featured on because he does have a nice voice.

A few months ago, I saw that a full episode of Drake and Josh that had been uploaded on YouTube. I immediately watched it, but was soon disappointed to find the jokes outdated and the runtime padded with laugh tracks. The acting was sub-par and it felt like a betrayal to high esteem I had held the show in for years.

I began to watch Victorious the day it came out and was pleasantly surprised. The acting from most of the cast was solid and believable, the songs remain pleasant to listen to, and the story arks are still interesting. But rewatching the show years later and with a greater understanding of what makes a good TV show, there were some let downs.

The first letdown of the show was the over-reliance on Victoria Justice. Because she is the star of the show, there is not a single episode she was not included. Due to this dependence on her, it took until the third season for the backstory of almost any other character to be explained or explored. No matter how liked and remembered they are, many characters still felt unfinished and ignored after the finale.

My final complaint after rewatching the show is that too many plotlines were reused. Two whole episodes were dedicated to one character, Robbie, who almost loses his best friend/puppet Rex. In two consecutive episodes during season two (episodes four and five), Tori is given the spotlight in for a play or school event while Jade spends the whole episode trying to sabotage Tori. The plotlines in these episodes felt nearly identical and hurt the overall season.

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Due to the popularity of such shows like Disney Channel's Hannah Montana and Fox's Glee, in which the cast performed the music as their characters, Nickelodeon decided to create a series titled Victorious with a similar theme, with the help of Columbia/Epic Label Group of Sony Music. It was created by Dan Schneider and its main cast consisted of seven actors, including Victoria Justice portraying the protagonist Tori Vega.[1] The first season was broadcast on the channel from March 27, 2010 to March 26, 2011. Due to the high popularity, a second season was created, which aired from April 2 to December 26.

While primarily considered a sitcom, Victorious featured characters performing the songs, mostly the original, in various episodes. Some of these were released on official digital music platforms, and some were available to listen to on the series' website TheSlap, the Nickelodeon website, and the website of iCarly (Schneider's another show on the channel). Justice's interview with ClevverTV was published on April 11, 2010, in which she revealed the soundtrack would be released after the first season. Ann Donahue wrote in an article for Billboard the full soundtrack would be released later that year, though that didn't happen.[2]

Daniella Monet, another cast member of the series, wrote on Twitter on March 2011 the soundtrack would be released in the summer of that year.[3] Later, it was revealed via both Justice's website and a press release by Columbia Records and Nickelodeon the soundtrack would be released on July 12, but for an unknown reason this date was pushed back.[4][5] The album's title (Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show), cover artwork, new release date (August 2), and tracklist were revealed by the Idolator website.[6] The album became available for pre-order on July 13, and Justice announced the first 1,000 people would get it with a booklet signed by her.

Dan Schneider wrote the album would contain 13 songs.[7] Through the second press release, it was revealed the record would be published in two editions.[8] The first is the standard 12-song version which has been available for purchase on compact disc.[9] The second version, released as a digital download, includes the bonus song "Broken Glass", which has been stated by Columbia Records and Nickelodeon as an iTunes exclusive.[8][10] Despite this, this version was also later released on CD in early 2012.[11] These 13 songs are a selection from those performed in the first two seasons of Victorious.

Based on the liner notes, the songs on the entire album were recorded in seven different studios. Almost every song was recorded in the United States, with the exception of a portion of "Beggin' on Your Knees" which, out of three different studios, was recorded in one in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. As of around April 11, 2010, seven original songs had been recorded, confirmed by Justice during an interview with ClevverTV. Her tweets confirm "Make It Shine" was recorded on October 19, 2009, and "Leave It All to Shine" was recorded on September 4, 2010.[15][16] On the same day as the latter song was recorded, Daniella Monet also tweeted she was in the studio.[17] Recording dates for other tracks are unknown. Elizabeth Gillies tweeted she was in the studio on August 19, 2010, though it's unknown if it was about the music for Victorious.[18]

William Ruhlmann of AllMusic gave Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show three stars out of five. Ruhlmann described the album as mainly teen pop, describing the first two songs, "Make It Shine" and "Freak the Freak Out", as typical of the genre due to their "relentless beats, synthesized instrumentations, nonstop simple, repetitive choruses, and Auto-Tune vocals". According to him, the lyrical part of the album is based on the themes of "light romance, happy and sad, and assertions of self-worth", the latter of which is about the song "Song 2 You". Additionally, he called "Give It Up" a "Britney Spears reject" and with "I Want You Back" he felt bubblegum pop is similar to that of 40 years ago. He ended his review by stating "Of course, what really matters is what Justice and her earnest fellow cast members look like, not what they sound like, especially given the cookie-cutter nature of this music."[19]

Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show was the most successful worldwide of all albums by both Victorious and Victoria Justice. In the United States, the album sold 41,000 copies in its first week.[20] This resulted in it debuting at number five on the Billboard 200 chart (where it spent a total of 24 weeks) and the Top Current Album Sales chart (where it spent a total of 27 weeks).[21][22] The album also spent 64 weeks on the Kid Albums, including two at the top of the chart.[23] It spent its first seven weeks at number one on the Top Soundtracks chart, where it spent a total of 48 weeks overall.[24] After 2011 ended, the album appeared at numbers 9, 16, and 196 on the year-end versions of the Kid Albums, Top Soundtracks, and Top Current Album Sales charts, respectively.[25][26][27] After 2012, the album re-entered the year-end Kid Albums at number 10 (higher than Victorious 2.0: More Music from the Hit TV Show released that year) and Top Soundtrack at number 23.[28][29]

The album managed to appear on the charts in other countries. In Austria, the album stayed for six weeks, with one of them at number 35.[30] In Germany, it only appeared for one week at number 100 and last on the chart.[31] In Spain, it was also only one week, but higher, at number 36.[32] The album spent two weeks in Switzerland, peaking at number 69.[33] While in the United Kingdom the album failed to chart as high as in the United States, its stay length in terms of weeks is much better; after leaving the charts in 2013, the album made a comeback in 2020 and continues to appear regularly up to the present time as of 2023.[34] The album was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry for 60,000 units, based on sales and streaming.[35]

To promote the album, four singles and two promotional singles were released, all performed by Victoria Justice. "Make It Shine" was originally released on the Nickelodeon website on March 9, 2010, before being re-released as the first promotional single on official music platforms on April 13.[36][37] It was used as the series' theme song and was performed four times, the most of any song, including in the first episode titled "Pilot". The song received a music video featuring the Victorious cast dancing on the series' set. The track managed to reach number 16 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[38] The music video for "Freak the Freak Out", a track performed on the series' episode of the same name, premiered on November 19 and features the cast hanging out at a club. The song was released three days later, becoming the first regular single.[37] It's one of the most commercially successful songs; In the United States, it peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.[39][40] It also charted at number 176 in the United Kingdom.[41]

"Beggin' on Your Knees" became available for streaming on the Nickelodeon website on March 9, 2011. Three days later, a music video was released featuring the cast of the series in an amusement park where Justice catches her boyfriend cheating on her with another girl. The track was released as the second single on April 1, and was featured in the episode of the same name a day later.[37] It peaked at number 58 on the Hot 100 and also debuted at mumber one on the Kid Digital Song Sales chart, becoming the first song for both Justice and Victorious to achieve this.[39][42] Four days after being posted on the Idolator website, "Best Friend's Brother" became the third single on May 20. It was used in the episode "Prom Wrecker" aired the next day. The music video premiered on May 27 and shows Justice, this time without the other cast members, trying to get the attention of a boy she has a crush on and dreaming about him.[4] The song peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100 and was the second chart-topping single on the Kid Digital Song Sales.[39][42]

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