Music Career: 2002-2005: Breakthrough and In this Skin

In This Skin, debuted at #10 on The Billboard 200 album chart, with sales of 64,000 in its first week. It rebounded after a special collectors’ edition was released in April 2004 and subsequently reached a peak at #2. It was eventually certified triple platinum. It contained the song “Sweetest Sin”, which barely even made an impact on the Bubbling Under Hot 100. However, the album did contain the hit singles “With You” (#14, 2004) and a cover of the Berlin song “Take My Breath Away” (#20, 2004), and a lesser hit, a cover of the Robbie Williams song “Angels”, which charted just outside the Billboard Hot 100.

Simpson also released Rejoyce: The Christmas Album in late 2004, which peaked at #14 on the album chart and was later certified gold. Simpson appeared on The Dukes of Hazzard soundtrack, releasing “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”, a cover of the 1966 Nancy Sinatra hit. The song peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Song from a Movie in 2006. The song’s video featured Simpson as Daisy Duke. It contains scenes of her flirting and singing in a bar and then later washing the General Lee car, while wearing a skin-tight, revealing pink bikini. In some countries the video was banned for its overtly sexual content.

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