Jordin Brianna Sparks (born December 22, 1989) The album spawned US
Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles "Tattoo" and "No Air"; the latter is currently the third highest-selling single by any
American Idol contestant, selling over three million digital copies in the US. The song earned Sparks her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
Sparks' second album
Battlefield (2009) debuted at number seven on the US
Billboard 200. Its lead single "Battlefield" reached number 10 on the
Billboard Hot 100, making Sparks the only
American Idol contestant to have her first five singles reach the top twenty on the chart. The second single "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)" became Sparks' first number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. In 2012, Sparks was ranked at number 92 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music".
Sparks branched out from recording music, pursuing careers in acting and Broadway, and designing perfumes. She made guest appearances on several television series, beginning with
The Suite Life On Deck in 2009, and later in
Big Time Rush in 2010. That same year, Sparks made her Broadway debut in the musical,
In The Heights, starring as Nina Rosario. She made her feature film debut in a remake of the musical film,
Sparkle (2012), which also starred Whitney Houston, Derek Luke, Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter. In October 2010, Sparks released her first perfume, Because of You..., which was followed by her second perfume,
Fascinate, in March 2012, with her third perfume
Ambition, in November 2012. On July 22, 2013, it was announced that Sparks would make her return to the music industry after a four-year solo material hiatus. RCA Records released the first promotional single, "Skipping a Beat", on August 1, 2013, on SoundCloud. The song became available on music media markets on August 13, 2013. Sparks' upcoming album with RCA Records is expected to be released in the fall of 2014, while debuting the first single that summer.