The album's third single, " One Step at a Time" was released on Jand peaked at seventeen on the Hot 100 giving Sparks her fourth consecutive Top 20 single."No Air" was the number one song of 2008 in New Zealand. "No Air" has also reached number one in both the Australian and New Zealand singles charts. Both "Tattoo" and "No Air" have been certified platinum by the RIAA. On FebruBillboard stated that "No Air" was the top digital sales gainer after selling 73,000 downloads. The second single released was " No Air", a duet with Chris Brown, which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100.The song became the album's first top ten hit, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. The first single released was " Tattoo", which was released to U.S.The song "Young and In Love" & "This Is My Now" were featured in spirit episodes of MTV's The Hills.
The song "Permanent Monday" was featured in the Salt Lake City audition episode on the 8th season of American Idol. There are two available covers of the album, one for the US and Canada, and one for the UK and Australia, although the US and Canada cover was available in the UK and Australia (in stores and on iTunes) until "No Air" came out in those countries, in which the new cover was released. An exclusive video of the photoshoot for Jordin Sparks was posted on Sparks' YouTube channel in October, where snippets of "Permanent Monday", "Overcome" and "One Step at a Time" could be heard. Jordin confirmed on her MySpace that the official track listing as well as the release would carry bonus tracks at Wal-Mart, Sony, and the iTunes Store. She said the album would be "Top 40, radio-friendly, uplifting stuff" hopefully mixing "the pop rock sound of inaugural Idol Kelly Clarkson with the R&B edge of Beyoncé". Sparks has stated that she recorded some songs for the album but the bulk of the recording was done in Los Angeles after the tour was over. All past Idol winners and runners-up are or were signed with the RCA Label Group’s J ( Fantasia, Ruben Studdard), Arista ( Justin Guarini, Taylor Hicks, Blake Lewis) or RCA ( Kelly Clarkson, Bo Bice, Clay Aiken, Katharine McPhee, Chris Daughtry, Diana DeGarmo and idol successor David Cook) labels, with the exception of Carrie Underwood signed to Arista Nashville. On August 17, 2007, it was announced Sparks had signed to 19 Recordings/ Jive Records/ Zomba Label Group, becoming the first Idol to join the label group, the second being David Archuleta the following year. Sparks won the sixth season of American Idol.
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