Hilary Duff's latest album Dignity, debuted at No. 3 in Canada, unlike her last three albums which made their entrance at the top of the charts in this country.
And while she would have liked a fourth No. 1 - "Who doesn't want that?" she said - Duff maintained she's satisfied with the disc's performance.
"I couldn't be happier," said Duff. "I feel lucky to have sold what we sold and the market's kind of not great, and hasn't been great for awhile. And if you look at all the things that sold that week, no number was that big. And it's like me, I did it this time.. It's my personality. I wrote up. I came up with the songs. I got to be really personal and give my views on things."
Duff, who plans on launching her Dignity tour in Canada in July, certainly seems to be enjoying the transition from teen pop idol to more mature artist.
"The more and more you learn, I think the more and more you want to try and challenge yourself. And want to do it yourself. Why not? It's my music. I'm singing it. It's my face. Now it's like, 'Why haven't I been doing this all along?
What's wrong with me?' But I just didn't know. So this time around it was just important for me to just do something different and go on tour and sing songs that I wrote."
Duff also has upcoming two film roles, first as an "out there" Eastern European pop star in the John Cusack-penned quirky, dark comedy War Inc., which co-stars Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Joan Cusack, and is likely to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in the fall.
"It's about America and how we like go into places and destroy it and then walk in like, 'We're your heroes. We're rebuilding it.''"
Like Iraq?
"Maybe," said Duff. "But it takes place in this place called Teraqistan."
There's also the animated feature, Food Fight, in which Duff voices the character of Sunshine Goodness, the character on the raisin box, that's due in November.
