Not only do you need the right record label to make it "big" these days; you need to have the right producers (Utada had them, but the irony to Utada's music is that she totally overshadows Tricky and Stargate)

and also

It's a cold day down under when we see a new face that isn't contracted by Hollywood Records or part of some contest show where you prove you can sing by whoring yourself out artistically and aesthetically so the masses can gobble you up and spit you out just in time for your well-groomed replacement to step into your boots and fill the empty role.

You sir,are a very smart man.I don't even need to explain the very first quote but as for Hollywood Records.Hollywood and Buena Vista records fuel every Disney Channel icons sweet ride through fameland then some how their tires get busted by the road spikes otherwise know as "reality checks".Although I love Hilary Duff...that second album of her's was a wreck.And it did have the sells to show that.It sold only single Platinum.How does a bad album like this sell?Because it was shoved down our throats.If a 13yr old girl doesn't buy a Hollywood artist's material,she'll wake up with her period the next day(I couldn't resist JK).But luckily,Duff has a good enough head on her shoulders and a mom as a manager to avoid the crash and burn of Lindsay and I assure the soon to be Miley Cyrus(which is hilary's replacement).Hollywood is with Hil but she is tackling more serious accounts,they might drop her for having a brain.The last thing we got was that 2008 single and a best album.

Now more relative to this problem with the single.

This happened before.Easy Breezy was released August 30th 2004.Exodus '04 came out,JUNE 21th 2005!!10 months?and then You Make Me Want To Be A Man was October 17th 2005.They tried with EZBZ but Ex04 and YMMWTBAM were over shadowed by post ablum release songs from other artist."The Emancipation of Mimi"(Mariah Carey's 2005 album) had a nice LONG set of successful singles.They start promotional for her new album like June this year....IT COMES OUT THIS MONTH.They had the whole month of July to market this album(WHICH TIMBALAND WORKED ON T_T).I'm sure it's gonna do fine anyways.Not everything is gonna sell itself.