[1] With "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top", both singles from that soundtrack, she became the first female artist to debut with two songs simultaneously on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Entitled Headstrong, her first album was released in February 2007, debuted at number five on Billboard 200,[3] and was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over 500,000 units.

Tisdale began work on her second studio album soon after she finished promoting High School Musical 3: Senior Year in 2008.

Guilty Pleasure was released in 2009 and debuted at number twelve on Billboard 200, selling 25,000 copies in the first week; this was significantly lower than the first-week sales for her previous album.

[6] In December, 2013, she announced she would be releasing a charity single titled "You're Always Here" written about her late grandfather.