Stranger and Reach Out made it to the Top 100 without adds

Imagine if they actually had adds.
They would do amazing.

You missed the biggest one.

Reach Out wouldn't have done better than Stranger which would've done AMAZING!!
Although it's weird RO's peak is higher than Stranger's but S actually entered the Hot 100 and RO didn't even make it to the Bubbling Under ...I mean I understand Stranger actually had downloads 'cuz RO was released to iTunes like a year later but ppl didn't like RO THAT much while I know tons of ppl who love S

I agree.

I think Stranger was downloaded enough to actually enter the Hot 100.
We couldn't download Reach Out for awhile...until February or March, I think. So by that time, the speculations already died down.

EDIT: Oh, you just edited your post!

I loved Reach Out but it was very different than what she has done so I guess that also impacted on how well it performed?

I remember Billboard doing an article saying Hilary should at least have a Top 10 song on the Hot 100. Love this girl...

If only Hollywood and radio treated her better. Stranger was in the 90s range on Mediabase for a long time and her amazing SYTYCD performance pushed downloads and it charted!

Due wikipedia:

Dignity is the fourth studio album by American singer Hilary Duff, released on April 3, 2007 in the United States. Duff co-wrote the majority of the tracks with Kara DioGuardi, who co-produced the album with Chico Bennett, Richard Vission, Vada Nobles and others. In contrast to the pop rock sensibility of Duff's previous work, Dignity features mainly a dance-pop- and electropop-influenced sounds, along with some elements of more classic sounding pop music, old school hip-hop, and R&B. It reached the top five on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, and the RIAA certified it gold for shipments to U.S. retailers of 500,000 units.[7][8] The three singles on the album—"Play with Fire", "With Love" and "Stranger"—reached the top forty on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, the latter two peaking at number one. The album was eventually Duff's last full studio album release with Hollywood Records.

Well it had a lot going against it...

- The song didn't go for adds.
- It was the lead single off the "Best Of" which was not promoted at all.
- It didn't go to iTunes for months after it's video release & premiere.
- It was coming off a flop single that also didn't go for adds ("Stranger.")

"Stranger" was different from what radio was playing at the time. The adds date & a radio promo tour could have helped the song do very well though. It had the potential. But because of it's not being supported by the label, it didn't make a dent. This in turn hurt "Reach Out" because to radio it was as if Hilary had released "With Love" & hadn't released anything after. Considering "With Love" peaked around April/May on radio, & RO didn't even premiere until it's video release date on October 28, 2008, that was pretty damaging. Radio most likely wouldn't have played it anyway because of how much of a joke the "Best Of" was & how professionally managed her music career (in terms of what they were sent to play, etc) had been up to that point.

Not to mention, the final edit that made it on the album & video was so overproduced. It was as if a computer had recorded the song in the first place. Then of course, it could have been too different from what Hilary has done, but there was just to much going against it for it to do well anyway.

I always loved Hilary Duff. The only down-to-earth actress and singer. I'm excited for her new album, I hope it's in the genre Pop/Rock ore something near that. A Dignity 2.0 could be great too.

Agree, and personally I BELIEVE STRANGER would've been TOP 15 if well promoted while REACH OUT could've been another Top 50 single

^Your so right.

Stranger couldn't have gone top 15. I love Hilary, but if With Love couldn't go top 20, what makes you think Stranger could go top 15? I say Stranger would have cracked the top 40.

Duff's Stranger is completely different and sounds so much mature due With Love.

BUT THAT'S MY TASTE

asifier:

Who thinks Hilary will put out a single before the year is over?

I hope she does put out a single before the year is over.

I Love Her so much.
I hope this is the kind of "Dignity", It took a long time to make that album and went flawlessly and, by the time they are taking this, it will be something very well done!

^Same, Dignity was praised by criticals: they called it ''Duff's breaktrough, and would miss the bubbly-pop song as earpain.''
Hope she does it before the year ends!

A promo single, like she did with Play With Fire, would be good for me.

^Play with Fire flopped hard in the charts.