Britt Nicole

A singer and songwriter of inspirational dance-pop, Britt Nicole debuted with Say It in 2007 before crossing over from the contemporary Christian charts to the pop ranks with her second full-length, 2009's The Lost Get Found. Her Grammy-nominated third album, 2012's Gold, landed just outside the Top 40 of the Billboard 200. An eponymous album returned her to both the Billboard 200 and the Christian songs chart in 2016 before she re-emerged with the song "I'll Fight for You" in 2021. Born and raised in North Carolina, Brittany Nicole Waddell started singing in her grandfather's church at just three years of age, later learning the piano and guitar and starting to write songs in her teens. When Belmont University offered her a scholarship for their music program, she made the decision to turn it down in favor of actively pursuing a recording contract. Acoustic That goal came to fruition in 2006 when she signed with the Sparrow label, which released her debut LP, Say It, in 2007. Behind the Top Ten Christian song "You," it reached number 40 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart. Nicole's empowering dance-pop hit the Christian charts again in 2009 with her sophomore effort, The Lost Get Found, which also landed on the Billboard 200. A year later, she issued the Acoustic EP, a collection of acoustic versions of some of her songs. Britt Nicole Britt Nicole's third studio album, 2012's Gold, climbed to number 41 on the Billboard 200, and its title track marked her debut on the Hot 100 as well as on Billboard's Pop Songs chart. Later in 2012, she signed with Capitol Records, which reissued Gold in 2013. The LP went on to earn a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. A year later, her song "The Sun Is Rising" appeared in the Cameron Diaz film The Other Woman. She returned to the Hot Christian Songs chart with "Through Your Eyes," and "Be the Change" from her first album of original material for Capitol, titled simply Britt Nicole. It reached number 100 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in 2016. In 2018, Nicole gave birth to her and her husband's third child. She eventually returned to the studio and self-released the song "I'll Fight for You" in late 2021.