No Restrictions

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No Restrictions
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2024
Genre
Length49:00
Label Legacy Music
Producer
Jordin Sparks chronology
Cider & Hennessy
(2020)
No Restrictions
(2024)
Singles from No Restrictions
  1. "Call My Name"
    Released: October 13, 2023
  2. "Remember"
    Released: August 16, 2024
  3. "More Than Enough!"
    Released: September 10, 2024

No Restrictions is the fifth studio album by American singer Jordin Sparks. It was released on September 13, 2024, by Legacy Music. This is her first studio album of all original material since 2015's Right Here Right Now . The album features collaborations with T-Pain, Stonebwoy and Shawn Stockman.

Contents

Background

Sparks began working on the album while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]

Composition

Sparks wrote on all of the album's fifteen tracks. The opening track "Forever" features rapper T-Pain, and third track "Remember" samples the 1992 Michael Jackson hit, "Remember the Time". [3]

Release and promotion

No Restrictions was released by Legacy Music on September 13, 2024.

Singles

"Call My Name" the album's lead single was released on October 13, 2023. The second single "Remember" was released on August 16, 2024. [3]

"More Than Enough!" was released as the album's third single on September 10, 2024. [4]

Track listing

No Restrictions track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Forever" (featuring T-Pain)
2:50
2."Where There's Smoke…"
  • Sparks
  • Abernathy Jr.
  • Dana Thomas
  • Jamall Anthony
  • Jonaten Watts
  • Dem Jointz
  • Watts
  • Travis Marsh
3:22
3."Remember"
  • Dem Jointz
  • 300Cam
2:44
4."No Restrictions"
  • Dem Jointz
  • Hagler
  • Jordan Lewis
3:10
5."FFWD"SparksDem Jointz3:02
6."More Than Enough!"
  • Sparks
  • David Brook
  • Mike Fatkin
  • Sam DeRosa
  • Fatkin
  • Thomas
  • Dawkins
3:22
7."The Wall"SparksTaylor Sparks3:46
8."Admit It"
  • Sparks
  • Abernathy Jr.
  • Anthony
  • Jack Siegz
  • Nick Lamb
  • Danny Boy
  • Dem Jointz
  • Siegz
3:41
9."Give Love a Try"
  • Sparks
  • Anthony
  • Frank Romano
  • Midian
  • Romano
  • Midian
4:21
10."No Cry" (featuring Stonebwoy)Kayo2:55
11."Call My Name"
  • Sparks
  • Abernathy Jr.
  • Cole Fredrick
  • Mathew Jarragin
  • Matisse Pasillas
  • Nicholas Stone
Dem Jointz3:37
12."What Are We Doing?" (featuring Shawn Stockman)
  • Sparks
  • Stockman
  • Chller
  • Stockman
  • T. Sparks
2:36
13."YCFWM"
  • Abernathy Jr.
  • Chller
  • Sir Blayke
Dem Jointz3:26
14."Lavender Flower"
  • Sparks
  • ISA
ISA4:01
15."Fight of Our Life"
  • Sparks
  • Anthony
  • Dawkins
  • Chizuko
  • Davina Jay
  • Derrick Kinsey
  • Marcus Hodge
  • Andre Manuel
Dawkins3:04
Total length:49:00

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