Jordin Sparks biography

Jordin Brianna Sparks, born December 22, 1989, is an American singer and actress from Glendale, Arizona. She rose to fame as the winner of American Idol season 6 in 2007.

Jordin recorded an album titled For Now in 2003, a five-song album at the age of thirteen with Matthew Ward, a legendary Christian music artist and Gary Leach, an engineer who has worked on several of LeAnn Rimes' albums.

Jordin's first studio album, Jordin Sparks, entered and peaked on the US Billboard 200 in November 2007 at #10, selling 119,000 copies in it's first week and was certified Platinum there. To date, it has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide, peaking at #10 on the New Zealand album chart, #12 on the Canadian album chart and #17 on the UK and Austrailian album chart. Jordin's coronation song for her American Idol win, called This Is My Now, peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #66 on the Canadian Hot 100. Her second single called Tattoo did better in the charts than her coronation song, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the Canadian Hot 100, #5 on the Austrailian singles chart and #26 on the UK singles chart. No Air (duet with Chris Brown) was the third single, and her highest charting song to date, hitting the top 10 in 18 countries around the world, peaking at #1 on the Austrailian, Israeli, New Zealand and UK R&B singles charts. It reached #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK singles chart. One Step at a Time was the final single from Jordin's debut album, peaking at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, #16 on the UK single chart, #12 on the Austrailian singles chart and #2 on the New Zealand singles chart.

Her second album, Battlefield was released in July 2009 and debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200, #11 on the UK album charts, #15 on the Canadian album charts and #17 on the New Zealand and Ireland album charts. The first single, the same as the album title, Battlefield peaked at #1 on the Austrailian Urban Chart. It reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, #11 on the UK, #3 on the New Zealand and #4 on the Austrailian singles chart. The second single has been announced as S.O.S (Let The Music Play) which will be released in September/October 2009.