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'{{Infobox single | Name = Someone's Watching Over Me | Cover = Hilary Duff - Someones Watching Over Me.jpg | Border = yes | Artist = [[Hilary Duff]] | Album = [[Hilary Duff (album)|Hilary Duff]] | B-side = "[[My Generation]]" | Released = {{Start date|2005|02|21}}<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20050405142538/http://www.hilaryduff.com.au/news/index.php</ref> | Format = [[CD single]] | Recorded = 2004 | Length = {{duration|m=4|s=11}} | Label = [[Hollywood Records|Hollywood]] | Writer = {{flat list| *[[Kara DioGuardi]] *[[John Shanks]] }} | Producer = John Shanks | Last single = "[[Fly (Hilary Duff song)|Fly]]"<br />(2004) | This single = "'''Someone's Watching Over Me'''"<br />(2005) | Next single = "[[Wake Up (Hilary Duff song)|Wake Up]]"<br />(2005) }} "'''Someone's Watching Over Me'''" is a song recorded by American singer [[Hilary Duff]] for her [[Hilary Duff (album)|self-titled third studio album]] (2004). The song was written by [[Kara DioGuardi]] and [[John Shanks]], who also produced the song. ==Background and composition== The song was written by DioGuardi and Shanks for the film [[Raise Your Voice]], in which Duff stars. In the movie, which is set at a performing arts summer school, Duff's character, Terri, writes the song with her fellow student Jay, played by [[Oliver James (entertainer)|Oliver James]], and performs it at the film's climax in front of the students, staff and parents. Musically, "Someone's Watching Over Me" is a moderately paced [[pop music|pop]] song, moving at a tempo of 78 beats per minute.<ref name="sheet"/> Written in the key of [[C-sharp minor|C# Minor]], the song has the sequence of C#m—F#m—B—B/A{{music|flat}}—Abm—Ab/C as its chord progression.<ref name="sheet">http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0069120</ref> Lyrically, the song speaks about "holding on no matter what happens in life, believing that someone's watching over". ==Chart performance and reception== During the week of the single's radio release in Australia in January, it was the fifth most added song to station playlists.<ref>"hit list". ''[[Herald Sun]]''. January 19, 2005, Guide, pg. H10.</ref> After its release as a single the following month, it peaked at number twenty-two on the [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] [[ARIA Charts|Singles Chart]] and remained in the top forty for nine weeks.<ref>[http://www.musicsquare.net/charts/song/2562 "Hilary Duff - Someone's Watching Over Me"]. MusicSquare. Retrieved August 16, 2006.</ref> The single's [[B-side]] is a cover of [[The Who]]'s "[[My Generation (The Who song)|My Generation]]". According to Paul Broucek, executive vice president of music for [[New Line Cinema]], in November 2004, "Someone's Watching Over Me" was one of the studio's possible contenders for an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] at the [[77th Academy Awards]].<ref>Guerin, Ada. [http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4905275-1.html "Sound Investments"]. ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''. November 16, 2004.</ref> The ''[[Herald Sun]]'' wrote of "Someone's Watching Over Me", which it awarded one [[Star (classification)|star]], "Yeah, that'd be [[Lindsay Lohan]]. They're [[Single White Female|single-white-femaling]] each other when it comes to music, though Duff got in first with the polite [[Avril Lavigne|Avril]]-lite [[soft rock]]. However, this positivity-laden [[ballad (music)|ballad]] sucks."<ref>Adams, Cameron. "the singles". ''[[Herald Sun]]''. February 24, 2005, Hit, pg. I08.</ref> ''[[The Sunday Telegraph (Australia)|The Sunday Telegraph]]'' published a two-star review of the song, editorializing that "The banging migraine kicked in somewhere around the lyrics: "I've seen that ray of light/It's shining on my destiny" [...] a brainless, infectious dose of made-to-order teen empowerment pop."<ref>Holmes, Peter. "CD Reviews". ''[[The Sunday Telegraph (Australia)|The Sunday Telegraph]]''. February 13, 2005, Features, ExpressMusic, pg. 124.</ref> ==Music video== The performance scene on the movie served as the single's [[music video|video]], which premiered on the program ''[[Rage (TV program)|Rage]]'' on [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] Broadband in mid January 2005.<ref>[http://www.popdirt.com/article35866.html "Hilary Duff's 'Someone's Watching Over Me' Video"]. popdirt.com. January 14, 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2006.</ref> ==Track listing== ;CD single # "Someone's Watching Over Me" &ndash; 4:11 # "[[My Generation (The Who song)|My Generation]]" &ndash; 2:41 == Charts == {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Chart (2005) ! Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"{{singlechart|Australia|22|artist=Hilary Duff|song=Someone's Watching Over Me|accessdate=August 25, 2013}} |- |} ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== * {{MetroLyrics song|hilary-duff|someones-watching-over-me}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider --> {{Hilary Duff singles}} [[Category:2004 songs]] [[Category:2005 singles]] [[Category:Hilary Duff songs]] [[Category:Pop ballads]] [[Category:Songs from films]] [[Category:Song recordings produced by John Shanks]] [[Category:Songs written by Kara DioGuardi]] [[Category:Songs written by John Shanks]] [[Category:Hollywood Records singles]]'