Jordin Brianna Sparks
(born
December 22,
1989)
is an American
R&B
and
pop
singer from
Glendale,
Arizona
who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth
season of
American Idol.
Sparks won when she was 17 years old, making
her the youngest winner. She followed her
American Idol victory with the release
of her
self-titled debut
album in
2007, which has gone
platinum
and has sold over 2 million copies
worldwide. Sparks' second single "No Air",
which features
Chris Brown,
is the song with the most paid downloads by
any American Idol contestant, selling
about 4 million digital copies worldwide.
Due to the success of her
debut album and its four top 20 singles, she
has won an
American Music Award
in 2008 and received her first
Grammy
nomination in 2009.
Sparks' sophomore album
Battlefield was released in July 2009 worldwide and debuted at #7 in the US, three spots higher than her first album. The album's lead single, also titled "Battlefield", peaked in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has sold more than a million copies thus far. Sparks has sold about 9 million singles worldwide to date. Sparks' first five singles all peaked in the top 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100, three of them peaking in the top 10. Battlefield's second single, "S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)", was her first song to top the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play making it her first U.S. number one single.