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Jordin Sparks Has Nothing To Say (Because Her Doctor Told Her To Keep Quiet)

Reigning American Idol Jordin Sparks has is currently suffering from a vocal cord hemorrhage that forced her to cancel a few shows over the weekend and may knock her out of commission for a while. "Because of the risk of permanent vocal cord damage, Sparks has been ordered to strict vocal rest and will not be able to perform anywhere until her condition improves," a flack for Penn State, where one of Sparks' canceled performances was scheduled to take place, told the New York Post. More »

11:20 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Manola: I'd be happy if this pony never opens her 17-year-old mouth again... more »

100 and single

The Main Event: Original Diva Battles New Diva For No. 1

Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts:

Forget that sleepy winter we just endured. We've got a horse race.

The top slot on Billboard's Hot 100 has turned into a revolving door, as Mariah Carey succumbs to the gal she replaced just two weeks ago.

Boosted by the U.S. release of her debut album, Leona Lewis rides her biggest week of digital sales yet (223,000 downloads) to recapture the top slot on the chart with "Bleeding Love." Back in March, when the song first rose to No. 1, we snarked about the power of Oprah to make this British reality-show ingénue an American pop star. But at this point, it's only fair to say that Lewis' song is pretty much doing the heavy lifting on its own.

Lewis shouldn't get too comfortable, however: Almost every other song in the Top Five could plausibly replace her next week, including "Touch My Body," the Carey song she replaced.

3:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Chris Molanphy
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Jordin Sparks is picking grunge-jacker David Cook to win this season of American Idol... unless he screws up country week, because as she says "voters have short-term memories." Especially when it comes to buying concert tickets three months after the show ends. [Hollywood Insider]

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on the scene

Jingle Ball 2007: BJs For The JBs

Our headline was actually one out of the several hundred text messages that scrolled across a video ticker high above the stage at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, when a sold-out crowd of tweens and teens (and Idolator) took in the pop chart mish-mash of New York radio station Z100's annual Jingle Ball, and the junior high horndogs who sent in that text weren't talking about James Brown's sidemen, but the Jonas Brothers, the pre-fab pop-punk puppy dogs fresh off a leg of the Hannah Montana tour. All night, the mere mention of the Brothers' names prompted screams so loud you'd think the arena had spontaneously popped a collective cherry, and for four hours, hundreds of exclamation point-riddled messages pledged love to one Brother or another, though usually more along the lines of a chaste hug than fellatio. And taken against the rest of the evening's performances, America's squealing affection towards Disney's latest attempt to bail out the industry (for at least another 12 months) wasn't necessarily misplaced.

12:30 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By jharv
1,197 views, 7 comments

Latest by Moimeme: @dennisobell: @encyclopediablack: @jessdolator: @Clevertrousers: @maura: @DHMBIB: I think a large amount of their fan activity, to be honest, happens outside of the mainstream avenues. They are normally ignored when talk of viral marketing comes up, but there is a HUGE amount of JoBros activity more »

polls

Which Z100 Star Will Put On The Most Painful Performance At Tonight's Jingle Ball?

Tonight, Maura and I will be at Madison Square Garden for New York pop station Z100's annual Jingle Ball, taking in the cream of Billboard's crop: Fall Out Boy! Alicia Keys! Avril Lavigne! The Jonas Brothers! Jordin Sparks! Colbie Caillat! Backstreet Boys! Boys Like Girls! Timbaland! With OneRepublic! And Keri Hilson! Is pop music really dead? Probably, but we'll find out for sure tonight. As a friend put it, it's going to be awfsome! But which iTunes bestseller is going to put on the most awfsome performance tonight? For the answer to that, we turn to the crystal ball of our handy poll software. More »

11:05 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By jharv
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Latest by maura: Anyway, more to come on Monday, but the winner was, as raihala predicted, Timbaland! And the losers were all of us, who had to listen as he trotted out his five-year-old son and gabbed endlessly about his credits. more »

art brutes

The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Proves Ugly Art Is A Universal Language

Because wherever they were recorded, the next two covers in our anything-goes Southeast Bracket speak the same bad design dialect. In the one corner, we have global gal Maya Arulpragasam's blinding, bitmapped Kala, which manages the feat of wrapping a great album in dot matrix puke. And in the other is American Idol-ette Jordin Sparks' self-titled debut, which manages the feat of making a pretty girl being groomed for stardom look like a snortin' mad bull ready to charge. Decide whether this round belongs to the world townie or the girl next door after the jump! More »

2:00 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By jharv
1,718 views, 20 comments

Latest by Lucas Jensen: @mhulot: I agree with a lot of what you say here, but I still hate it. I mean, it says "Party On!" all over it. That's just so...lame. more »

videodrone

Jordin Sparks Embarks On Her Own Carnival Ride

And so we come to the video for American Idol winner Jordin Sparks' "Tattoo," which is unfortunately not set at a seedy ink parlor in Greenwich Village because she's still "only 17," as Randy Jackson never failed to remind the viewers week-in and week-out, and therefore too young to even set foot in there without her football-player dad right by her side. So what's the next-best thing to a tattoo parlor? A beach! In the winter! With some pals, and a mysterious dude, and an abandoned carousel, which I'm guessing was the director's way of reminding the public that she is ... oh, you know. That said, the messy "Umbrella" synths on this song are starting to grow on me, although Sparks' vocals are a bit too musical-theatery for them to actually work in the context of the song.

Jordin Sparks - Tattoo [DailyMotion]

11:50 AM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by DrSpaceman: @CaligulaHamSandwich: I'm guessint that it was a desire to keep everyone comfortable that resulted in her romantic pairing being another racially ambiguous individual. I guess Justin Guarini was too busy. more »

Jordin Sparks Asks For A Tissue As She Enters The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Race

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Jordin Sparks' Now Begins, Um, Now

ARTIST: Jordin Sparks
TITLE: "Tattoo"
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 24, 2007

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the merch table

"Idol" Tour Merchandisers Lose Out On Potential Revenue From Sanjaya Wigs And T-Shirts

Among the 34 items for sale at stops on this summer's American Idols Live tour: T-shirts featuring Blake Lewis or Jordin Sparks (the other eight touring Idols are, sadly, not silkscreen-worthy); $50 hoodies that are, for some reason, imprinted with a guitar, and not the faces of the Idols; a $10 make-your-own sign kit (you'd think the Staples Center would object to such leeching of diorama-supply sales from its sponsor); and some $5 glowsticks, for when Blake busts out his new rave mini-set. (OK, OK, we're kidding about the "new rave" thing. We think.)

'American Idol' Tour Merchandise: Sorry, No Wigs [The Set List]

1:20 PM on Fri Jul 20 2007
By mjohnston
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Blake Lewis' cover of "You Give Love A Bad Name" has sold 192,000 digital copies to date—that's 15,000 more than Jordin Sparks' craptastic coronation song, "This Is My Now." Also, 500 people actually paid money to have a Haley Scarnato song on their computers?! [Idol Chatter]

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mp3

Stuck On Repeat (Against Our Will): Jordin Sparks Hits The Clubs

Has it really only been a week and change since Jordin Sparks was crowned as this year's American Idol? It seems so much longer, perhaps because the chorus of "This Is My Now" creeps into our consciousness when our mind should be in better, happier places. We found this club remix of the coronation song yesterday, and on our first spin of it, we were greeted with a pretty horrifying thought—that is, this song is probably going to have an iron grip on your local gyms and beachfront dance clubs for the better part of the summer, or at least until some DJ out there puts together a more listenable club remix of "Never Again": More »

3:30 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007
By mjohnston
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We Listen To The Finalists' EPs So You Don't Have To

After Jordin Sparks was crowned this year's American Idol last night, iTunes rushed into action, putting out five-song EPs that collect studio versions of songs from the finalists' repertoires this season. After the jump, we review the collections, and even imagine what Simon would say when each record was through. More »

3:30 PM on Thu May 24 2007
By mjohnston
1,706 views, 7 comments

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