Hilary Duff is officially returning to music.
The actress and singer has inked a new record deal with Atlantic Records, the label announced on Tuesday, as Duff preps her first record in a decade since releasing her fifth album Breathe In. Breathe Out. back in 2015.
Per Atlantic, Duff’s musical comeback will be chronicled with a docuseries directed and executive produced by Sam Wrench, who has directed major music films including Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Billie Eilish: Live at the O2 and Sabrina Carpenter’s Netflix special A No Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter.
In Atlantic’s description of the docuseries, the label seemed to suggest live shows are in the works as well, saying that “fans will ride shotgun as she balances raising a family, recording new music, live show rehearsals, and preparing to perform on stage for the first time in over a decade.”
Duff fans have long been waiting for her to come back to pop, and her husband seemed to tease something was in the works back on Mother’s Day, sharing a photo of Duff in the studio and finishing his caption asking Duff to “please go save millennial pop music, it needs you now more than ever.”
Atlantic declined do give details of the new detail, such as when conversations with Duff started or who from the label is handling the music with her.
Duff came to prominence as a teenager in the early 2000s after taking the lead role in the Disney Channel’s classic Lizzie McGuire, subsequently starring in films including Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and The Lizzie McGuire Movie. She released her first album, the Christmas album Santa Claus Lane, in 2002, and her first non-holiday album, Metamorphosis, came out the next year. That album, which featured two of her biggest hits “Come Clean” and “So Yesterday,” went quadruple platinum.
Most recently, Duff starred in Hulu’s How I Met Your Mother spin-off How I Met Your Father, which lasted for two seasons before it was canceled back in 2023. Duff is also reportedly set to star in Hulu’s upcoming show Pretty Ugly.
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