Hilary Duff to make her 'return to music' with new record deal and docuseries

Hilary Duff attends the InStyle Imagemaker Awards on Oct. 24, 2024, in Bel Air, Calif. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Hilary Duff is making music again.

Atlantic Records announced on Tuesday that it has signed the 37-year-old actress and pop singer, whose last album, Breathe In. Breathe Out., was released in 2015.

According to a press release from the label, Duff's "highly anticipated return to music" will be chronicled in an upcoming docuseries directed by Sam Wrench, who helmed Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" documentary, Sabrina Carpenter's Netflix Christmas special and a Billie Eilish concert film.

AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe docuseries will follow Duff "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 acknowledged her new record deal in an Instagram post."New music ... or something," she wrote.

Duff rose to fame as a teenager during the early 2000s as the star of Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, before jumping to the big screen in such films as Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and The Lizzie McGuire Movie. More recently, Duff starred in the TV Land comedy-drama series Younger and How I Met Your Father, Hulu's spinoff of the popular sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementShe has released five albums. Her first, Santa Claus Lane, was released in 2002, followed by Metamorphosis in 2003, a self-titled LP in 2004 and Dignity in 2007, before her last record a decade ago.

Duff's husband, Matthew Koma, teased her possible return to music earlier this year, sharing a photo of her in the studio on Instagram in a Mother's Day tribute."Please go save millennial pop music," he concluded his message. "It needs you now more than ever."About Our AdsSolve the daily Crossword20,388 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?20,388 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?CrosswordPlay on Yahoo