In August 2001, Branch released her second studio album and major-label debut, The Spirit Room.

[1][2] The album has been certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over two million copies in the United States.

The album was a commercial success, peaking at number two on the Billboard 200[1] and spawned two charting singles: "Are You Happy Now?

Branch's solo career resumed in 2009 with the release of her country single "Sooner or Later" and the extended play, Everything Comes and Goes.

Following a series of creative disputes and label disruptions that resulted in Everything Comes and Goes being reduced from a full-length album to an extended play and her subsequent album, West Coast Time, going unreleased, Branch released "Loud Music" from the extended play of the same name in 2011 through Reprise Records.