Hilary Duff Is Returning to Music: New Label Deal Announced, Docuseries in the Works

A decade after her last studio album, Hilary Duff has announced plans to reignite her recording career.

On Tuesday (Sept. 9), Atlantic Records announced a new label deal with the pop singer and former Disney Channel star. Duff’s most recent album, Breathe In., Breathe Out., was released in 2015 through RCA Records, and the 37-year-old has spent much of the past decade focused on her acting career, including starring roles on the TV shows Younger and How I Met Your Father.

While no timetable for new music has been shared, Duff will also be the subject of an in-the-works docuseries, directed and executive produced by Sam Wrench. Per the press release, the series will “chronicle Duff’s long-awaited musical return and personal journey, offering an unfiltered vignette into Hilary’s world.”

After becoming a teen star on the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire, Duff crossed over to pop music in the mid-2000s with Hot 100 top 40 hits such as “Come Clean” and “Wake Up.” Her last Billboard Hot 100 appearance came in 2015 with the Breathe In. Breathe Out. single “Sparks.”

Duff’s 2003 album Metamorphosis and 2005 compilation album Most Wanted topped the Billboard 200 upon their respective releases, and she has scored a total of five top 10 albums on the chart. Duff’s five biggest studio albums have sold a combined 7.8 million copies in the U.S., according to Luminate.

The as-yet-untitled docuseries will follow Wrench’s work on Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter, and arrive via Next of Kin Content, an EverWonder Studio company.

“Wake Up” recently toasted its 20th anniversary. Watch the video below:

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.