Thirteen of its fourteen tracks are performed by the series' primary actress Miley Cyrus, and are credited to her titular character Hannah Montana.

One of its actors Mitchel Musso contributes one song, while recording artists David Archuleta and Corbin Bleu appear as featured vocalists.

Hannah Montana 3 received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who appreciated the combination of upbeat tracks and mid-tempo ballads.

[2] Several producers and songwriters worked on songs for the album including, American Idol judge, Kara DioGuardi who co-produced and co-wrote "Mixed Up", "He Could Be the One", "Supergirl" and "Don't Wanna Be Torn".

[3] "The Best of Both Worlds" writing team Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil contributed to the album as well, in "Ice Cream Freeze (Let's Chill)".

[4] The only song not to feature vocals by Cyrus is the track "Let's Make This Last 4Ever" which is performed by Hannah Montana co-star Mitchel Musso.

Two duets, though both were originally recorded by only Cyrus: "I Wanna Know You" with David Archuleta and a new version of Hannah Montana's "If We Were a Movie" with Corbin Bleu that was used in the season two finale, are also featured on the album.

The deluxe edition sold exclusively to the iTunes Store and the physical CD contains access to 8 music videos taken from a concert filmed in California.

The DVD featured the 8 live music videos; the set also included a free poster and bonus computer content.

"Don't Wanna Be Torn" is a song from the Hannah Montana, season 3 soundtrack that premiered on Radio Disney on July 1, 2009, on the week they were promoting the album release.

Though it premiered on Radio Disney, it has not been officially sent for airplay on the station in 2009[35] In October 2008, Cyrus as Hannah Montana performed a live, taped concert in Irvine, California, where she performed songs from the third season of Hannah Montana for the purpose of having footage for the television show and for promotional purposes such as music videos.

Promotional music videos for the songs "It's All Right Here",[9] "Let's Do This",[11] "Ice Cream Freeze (Let's Chill)",[22] "Mixed Up",[36] "Just a Girl",[32] "Let's Get Crazy",[37] "Supergirl",[38] and "Every Part of Me"",[39] were all taken from footage of the concert.

Disney Channel also used various commercial segments to promote the album including a segment in which Hannah Montana co-star Jason Earles plays a charades types game titled "Hannah Montana: Sing Whaaat" in which Earles attempts to act out the names of titles of songs from the soundtrack for contestants playing the game; these commercials aired weeks before and after the release of the album.

[42] A game, Rock the Beat, on Hannah Montana's official website was made to promote the album, currently featuring eight songs in the soundtrack.

She described "Ice Cream Freeze (Let's Chill)" as "extremely similar" to Cyrus's own "Hoedown Throwdown" which wasn't received well by critics and others were too "equally cookie-cutter".

"[48] Warren Truit of About.com, looked at the album also from "a preteen's point of view" and taking into account that the songs are not supposed to represent her real life.

He said the songs were a mix of Gwen Stefani, Joan Jett and Avril Lavigne with "fizzy Radio Disney pop rock".

The tunes on the Hannah Montana 3 Soundtrack may be a little cookie-cutter, but at least the songwriters realize who their audience is and they deliver the goods, unlike the Jonas Brothers' recent genre-jumping mishmash disaster Lines, Vines and Trying Times.