While most fans recognize year-old Miranda Cosgrove as the star of the hit Nickelodeon show "iCarly," the teen idol is branching out and discovering her own voice musically.
Songs like lead single "Kissin' U," which vaults 41 spots to No. Although Cosgrove started singing at age 5 and playing guitar at 8, the Los Angeles native was first discovered for her acting skills. In Cosgrove signed on to star in "iCarly," a show that follows a teenage girl and the popular webcast she creates with friends.
Since its premiere, "iCarly" has become a hit for Nickelodeon, ranking as the No. Because of her filming schedule for "iCarly," Cosgrove decided she "didn't want to do anything halfway" and worked on her full-length debut during a two-year period.
Recorded with producers like Dr. Nickelodeon has been a key partner in the promotional campaign for "Sparks Fly. Aside from targeting "iCarly" fans, Cosgrove stopped by "The View" April 26 and appeared in a video with YouTube shopping tipster Blair Fowler, also known as Juicystar07, in an effort to reach a post-adolescent audience.
Following a radio promotional tour for "Sparks Fly," Cosgrove will spend the summer filming season four of "iCarly" and making appearances at radio concerts.
Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Cosgrove stated, "Before that, I didn't see myself making an album, but when I spent time in the studio doing the theme song and saw how much fun it was, I wanted to go back. In July , she officially announced plans for a debut album, stating that the album was "different" from her contributions to the iCarly soundtrack, with her "co-writing and getting really into it," and saying that "[I'm] playing a character on iCarly, but this shows more of myself.
Some people might think I'm just another actress putting out an album, but I wanted to prove that I'm more than that. The album took two years to make, with Columbia Records' marketing manager Chris Poppe stating in May that "Miranda started working on [the album] at 14, and she's 16 now.
The difference between those two ages is huge, and the songs have had to grow along with her. In February , Cosgrove announced the album's first single would be titled "Kissin U", which debuted live in an interview with Ryan Seacrest. The album's title Sparks Fly comes from the first two words of "Kissin U". The track list, including the four deluxe edition bonus tracks, was announced on Tommy2. The song "Daydream" was co-written and originally recorded by Avril Lavigne and produced by Raine Maida, and was planned for her second album Under My Skin.
The song "Disgusting" was co-written and originally recorded by Kesha and produced by Sheppard Solomon and Tom Meredith, and was planned for her debut album Animal. Both songs were unreleased and eventually recorded by Cosgrove. The song "Shakespeare" is a cover, co-written and originally recorded by Susan Cagle and produced by John Shanks and was released as a single on her debut album The Subway Recordings. The song "Adored" was co-written with Cosgrove and produced by The Matrix and was a free digital download two years before the album's official release.
The song "Charlie" was co-written by Nicole Morier with Greg Kurstin who produced the song and was released as a bonus track exclusively on the iTunes deluxe edition of the album.
The album has a variety of styles, but the album mainly consists of pop, pop rock, electropop, and soft rock. Cosgrove has stated that in the album she was trying to find her style, so the album experiments with several different kinds of music. In a recent interview, Cosgrove stated that she tried to put a little bit of her own flare into each and every song on the album. Cosgrove described the album's lead single "Kissin U", as "kind of a really happy, sweet song". The songs on the album generally deal with love and relationships.
Cosgrove has stated that this was not intentional, but she realized this after she had already picked all of the songs on the album. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, who reviewed the album for allmusic. Sparks Fly sold 36, copies in its first week, earning it the eighth position on the U.
Billboard on the issue dated May 5, So far the album has spent one week in the top ten as well as another five weeks bouncing around the top fifty albums until the most recent chart position, number sixty-five, making this the album's first time outside the top fifty. The album has sold over , copies to date in the U. In Mexico, the album debuted at number The following week, the album fell 12 spots to Nickelodeon also aired a television special titled 7 Secrets: Miranda Cosgrove, which aired on April 24, The half hour show revealed things about Cosgrove, such as how she got her start in the business, to some of her most embarrassing moments.
Cosgrove embarked on a radio promotional tour, and has made appearances at radio concerts in the summer of Along with being the lead single from this album, it and "Adored" were the only two songs that Cosgrove co-wrote for it. The song was released onto iTunes on March 22, The single debuted at 87 on the Billboard Hot , and peaked at The music video was directed by Alan Ferguson. It is also her first single to chart outside of the United States, entering the charts in Germany and Austria, among others.
Sparks Fly soundtrack rel. The song was first heard on March 12, , when Cosgrove premiered the song live during a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest. The song is a pop rock ballad which sings of a boy who makes "Sparks Fly" with Cosgrove when they kiss. During a recent interview, she stated the song is about a special someone.
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