Correct me if I am wrong but this number is bigger than the viewers number of Camp Rock, HSM 1 and please keep in mind that the movie leaked 2 days before the premiere but with all this, it scored 11.4 million views. How amazing is that?! I saw they movie online and it rocked very highly, it was very dramatic and Selena rocked. Check the below article!
Disney Channel’s 77th original movie, Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place The
Movie” premiered Friday night as TV’s No. 1 entertainment telecast of 2009 in
Kids 6-11 (4.5 million) and Tweens 9-14 (4.0 million), and became cable’s No. 1
telecast in Total Viewers (11.4 million). In key kids, the movie bowed as
cable’s No. 1 telecast this year. Most impressive, Disney Channel holds basic
cable’s Top 4 scripted telecasts since 2007 in Total Viewers with “High School
Musical 2” (17.2 million, 8/17/07), “Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie” (11.4
million, 8/28/09), a “Hannah Montana” telecast (10.7 million, 8/17/07) and
crossover event “Wizards On Deck with Hannah Montana” (9.3 million, 7/17/09).
Friday’s No. 1 TV telecast in Total Viewers, “Wizards of Waverly Place The
Movie” towered over all time period competition on both broadcast and cable,
besting runner-up CBS by 5.5 million in Total Viewers (11.4 million vs. 5.9
million), or by 93%, and also scored No. 1 rank in Kids 6-11 and Tweens 9-14. In
fact, in Total Viewers the movie ranked as Summer 2009’s No. 1 Friday TV
telecast.