"Breaking Free" is a song from the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical. It also appears on the soundtrack of the same name. It is sung by Drew Seeley,Zac Efron, and Vanessa Hudgens. It was also released as a single on June 8, 2006. On June 21, 2006 it was certified as a Gold single by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000.

The song is sung during the film's climax when the main characters Troy and Gabriella participate in the callbacks in front of the entire student body. In universe, the duet is written and composed by Kelsi Nielsen for the second act of the 'Twinkle Towne' school musical.

The song subsequently appeared on Vanessa Hudgens' compilation album, A Musical Tribute and appears on the Disney compilation album, "Disney Channel Playlist", which was released June 9, 2009.

It also appears on the NOW album: Now That's What I Call Music! 65.

The music video for this song was a clip from the movie/musical High School Musical. It was not released to any video countdowns in the US, because it was the climax song of the movie and Disney did not want it to be released. Germany's music video channels took it into the normal music video rotation. However, the remix version's video will be released onto the High School Musical Remix Edition DVD.

British pop-duo Same Difference who came third on series 4 of The X Factor were due to release a cover version of "Breaking Free" on April 21, 2008. However, this was later cancelled as the pair started working with and recorded a 21st-century version of the Kylie Minogue Japanese hit "Turn It Into Love". The duo did, however, include a studio version of the song on their debut album, Pop.

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