iCarly is Topping the Charts!

iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show Debuts At #1 On
Billboard's Top Kid Audio Chart & SoundScan's Top Children's Current Album
Chart

NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the
Hit TV Show, the album of music and dialogue from the popular live-action
TEENick series starring tween TV sensation Miranda Cosgrove, has just debuted
at #1 on the Billboard Top Kid Audio album chart and #1 on the SoundScan Top
Children's Current album sales chart.
The iCarly album has also entered the Billboard and SoundScan Top
Soundtrack albums charts at #2 (second only to the "Sex & the City"
soundtrack) while debuting on the Billboard 200 albums chart at #28 with a
bullet designating an album with significant airplay and sales gains this
week.
News of the chart-topping success of iCarly - Music from and Inspired by
the Hit TV Show comes hot on the heels of the ratings bonanza surrounding the
June 13 premiere of iCarly's first-ever super-sized episode, iCarly Saves TV,
which ranked as the week's #1 entertainment show [non-sports] in total viewers
on basic cable television. The program was also #1 for the week across all of
Nick's key demos -- tweens 9-14, kids 6-11 and kids 2-11 -- on both broadcast
and basic cable television. Overall, for the year to date, the iCarly series
currently ranks as the number three show with tweens on all broadcast and
basic cable, only behind American Idol and Nick's own Zoey 101 (Source: NMR).
With the nation's #1 cable entertainment show and #1 children's album in the
same week, iCarly is shaping up as a bona fide multi-platform cultural
phenomenon.
iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show premieres four new
tracks from Miranda Cosgrove, marking the artist's first recordings since
signing with Columbia Records earlier this year as part of the ongoing global
partnership between Nickelodeon and the Sony Music Label Group. The album
showcases songs inspired by iCarly from top artists like Avril Lavigne,
Natasha Bedingfield, Good Charlotte, Sean Kingston and debuts a brand-new,
exclusive recording from The Naked Brothers Band, stars of the Nick hit
live-action series of the same name.
iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show includes Miranda
Cosgrove's performance of the series' theme song, "Leave It All To Me"
(featuring Drake Bell), which spent three weeks charting recently on the
Billboard Hot 100. The hit song has averaged a four-plus star rating with
customers on iTunes while charting consistently on the music store's Pop
listings.
One of the year's most eagerly-awaited album releases, iCarly - Music from
and Inspired by the Hit TV Show debuts new tracks and mixes from contemporary
music's most exciting recording artists and is available in three
configurations:
1. Standard Softpack: 14 songs plus cast recorded dialogue, includes
Connected technology
2. Deluxe Fan Pack: 17 songs plus cast recorded dialogue, includes
Connected technology
3. Wal-Mart Deluxe Fan Pack: Available exclusively at Wal-Mart, this
version includes the Deluxe Fan Pack with the addition of iCarly Extra Scoops,
a 30-minute DVD of outtakes and cast interviews from the set of iCarly.
iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show
Tracklisting: 1. The Countdown*
2. Leave It All to Me Miranda Cosgrove
(Theme song from iCarly) featuring Drake Bell
3. What's Next, Baby?*
4. Stay My Baby Miranda Cosgrove
5. About Me?*
6. About You Now Miranda Cosgrove
7. Build-A-Bra*
8. Beautiful Girls Sean Kingston
(Nickelodeon Mix)
9. Sam's Second Toe*
10. I Don't Wanna Be In Love Good Charlotte
(Dance Floor Anthem)
11. Locked In The Closet*
12. I Like That Girl Leon Thomas III
13. We Hated Your Girlfriend*
14. Girlfriend (Nickelodeon Mix) Avril Lavigne featuring Lil Mama
15. Blueberry Belly Button*
16. Freckles Natasha Bedingfield
17. Gas Station Snacks*
18. Face In The Hall The Naked Brothers Band
19. You Can't Do That!*
20. Let's Hear It For The Boy The Stunners
21. Ten Things Boys Like*
22. Thunder (Radio Mix) Boys Like Girls
23. Headphones Are Huge*
24. Headphones On Miranda Cosgrove
25. Suckish Improv Game*
26. Move (Dance on Sunset Theme) Menudo
27. World's Fattest Priest*
28. I'm Grown (Radio Edit) Tiffany Evans featuring Bow Wow
29. Back To One*

** Bonus Tracks for Fan Pack 30. Leave It All To Me
Jason Nevins Remix
(Theme from iCarly)
31. So Hit It Hurts Me*
32. Whatever My Love Mickey Drummond
from Episode 102
33. Their Music Is Sooo Good*
34. Take Me Back Backhouse Mike
from Episode 110
35. Back To One*

*Cast Dialogue
**(Bonus Tracks available on Fan Pack and Wal-Mart Versions only)
iCarly - Music from and Inspired by the Hit TV Show is a product of the
development and production partnership between Nickelodeon, the number-one
entertainment brand for kids, and the Sony Music Label Group and the Sony BMG
Commercial Music Group.
iCarly, one of the most watched live-action premieres in Nickelodeon
history, is the highest-rated program on all of TV in its time slot with kids
6-11 and tweens 9-14. Since its launch, kids have uploaded more than 110,000
videos to the iCarly.com website, and the site has received more than 11.6
million visits and averaged 2.8M monthly visitors in the first quarter of 2008
alone.***
iCarly stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay, a teenager who lives with her
twenty-something brother/guardian Spencer (Jerry Trainor) and produces
webcasts from a makeshift loft studio with pals Sam (Jennette McCurdy) and
Freddie (Nathan Kress). iCarly is TV's only scripted series ever to let kids
contribute by incorporating videos they created to showcase their unusual
talents.
Cosgrove, 15, nabbed her first TV series and feature film at age nine: She
was cast first as Megan Parker, the deceptively sweet, scamming sister on
Drake & Josh and soon after as Summer Hathaway, the over-achieving preppy
manager of Jack Black's rock band on the big screen in School of Rock. Her
other film credits include the '05 feature-film release Yours, Mine and Ours
from Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies and Keeping up with the Steins.
iCarly was created by Dan Schneider, the creative force behind other
Nickelodeon hits including Emmy Award-nominated Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, The
Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel and All That. Called "the Norman Lear of children's
television" by The New York Times, Schneider created the WB's What I Like
About You and wrote and co-produced the film Big Fat Liar.
About Nickelodeon: Nickelodeon, now in its 29th year, is the number-one
entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by
putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television
programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus
consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films.
Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 96 million
households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for more than
13 consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos
are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).
About Columbia Records: One of the most respected and successful record
labels in the world, Columbia Records is home to established superstars and
exciting new talent. Columbia Records is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SONY BMG
MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
About Sony Music Label Group: Sony Music Label Group, a division of SONY
BMG Music Entertainment, is a global recorded music joint venture with a
roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local artists
and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that comprises some of
the most important recordings in history. SONY BMG Music Entertainment is 50%
owned by Bertelsmann A.G. and 50% owned by Sony Corporation of America.
***Source: NMR - 9/8/07 - 4/06/08
Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst V. 13.5 (1/1/08-3/31/08).
SOURCE Nickelodeon/Columbia Records

Anthony Coorey, Media, +1-212-833-4140, anthony.coorey@sonybmg.com, or Yvette
Noel-Schure, Media, +1-212-833-4483, Yvette.Noel-Schure@sonybmg.com, both of
Columbia Records; Jodi Davis of Nickelodeon, +1-212-846-5981,
Jodi.davis@nick.com