Music
Duff's first recorded singing performance was on the
song "I Can't Wait", which appeared on the Lizzie McGuire Original Television Soundtrack in 2002. She would also sing on several
tracks on the soundtrack to The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003. One of these tracks, "Why Not", was released as a single, reaching
the top 20 in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
Her first album was a 2002 collection of Christmas songs
called Santa Claus Lane, which made the lower reaches of the Billboard 200 album chart and number 3 on the kids music chart
in 2002. The title track also featured on the soundtrack to The Santa Clause 2 starring Tim Allen.
In 2003 she recorded
her first album, entitled Metamorphosis, which was released on August 26 and went to number one on the US and Canadian charts
in that year (see 2003 in music). The Metamorphosis album featured music that would appeal to teenagers as well as the tweens
who had supported her to date. The Matrix, who had worked with singers such as Avril Lavigne on her Let Go album and Liz Phair,
provided three songs on the album. One of these songs, So Yesterday, was released as the first single, reaching number 2 in
Canada, top 40 in Australia and just outside the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
Subsequent singles from
the album include:
"Come Clean" reached the Top 10 in Canada, top 20 in Australia and New Zealand and top 40 of the
Billboard Hot 100; and "Little Voice" reached the Australian Top 40 in May 2004. Metamorphosis was nominated
in the Juno Awards of 2004 for "International Album of the Year", losing to 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
On May
31, 2004, a video of her cover version of "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Gos with her sister Haylie Duff made its MTV debut.
The song is from the soundtrack of A Cinderella Story.
On September 28, 2004 (her birthday), she released her second
album, the self-titled Hilary Duff. She says that it has an edgier, rock feel into it. The album was supposed to be called
"A Girl Can Rock." Its first single is "Fly", and it also includes "Haters", which is rumored to be about Lindsay Lohan, who
is sometimes considered to be Duff's enemy.
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