Jumping Trains

**Jumping Trains** is the fifth studio album from american singer-songwriter Joanna "JoJo" Levesque. It was released on October 3, 2011 worldwide.

## Chart performance

"Jumping Trains" debuted at #1 with 707,848 sold in its first week. It locked the #1 in its second week with 288,405 copies sold. In October 29, Jumping Trains sold 205,983 copies, keeping its third week at #1. In November 12, the fifth week - it finally fell to #2, blocked by Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto.

Around the world, Jumping Trains peaked at #1 in various countries, like Canada, the UK, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan.

## Background

Following the amazing success of JoJo's fourth studio album Can't Take That Away From Me, the singer returned to studio in the summer of 2010 to start working on her next project. Levesque's plan was to shift to a more pop, dance-pop and pop rock sound on her next studio album, after 7 years making R&B music. She collaborated with a incredible range of producers and songwriters, like Mario Marchetti, Gino Barletta, Marc Himmel, Kayla Merry, Andrew Wansel and others. She spent ~2 million dollars on this next album, and the recording label wanted to be her most successful yet.

## Promotion

The first single from Jumping Trains was Disaster, released on September 5, 2011. The song debuted at #1 in the Billboard Hot 100, in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and even Japan. The song was the best selling single of 2011 with only 3 months of its release, and have sold over 14.5 million copies worldwide.

JoJo first teased and announced Disaster at the 2011 MTV VMAs in August 28, while presenting the **Video of the Year** award. The 10-second announcement that teased only the first guitar chords of the song made Levesque peak the top of the Trending Topics on Twitter. Her fellow friend Taylor Swift tweeted about the announcement:

> "*so proud of you @jojoistheway! Very excited for Disaster! xoxo*"
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The era's first live performance was at Good Morning America the day the song was released, in a monday, September 5. She performed it again on the Today Show, September 7. The song debuted atop of both Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Digital Songs Chart with more than 580,000 copies in its first week, breaking Bruno Mars' record of biggest digital download sales in a single week with Grenade in early 2011.

The second single, The Other Chick, was first performed at the 2011 American Music Awards, on November 20, 2011. The song was sent to the radios on December 5. It debuted at #7 in the Billboard Hot 100 and 4 weeks after its radio promotion, it peaked #1.

"Lie to Me" was chosen as the album's third single and released on February 6, 2012. The song was promoted at the 2012 Grammy Awards on February 12 and also peaked #1 later on.

The fourth single, "Play This Twice", was released on May 7 and performed at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards. Later on it peaked #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. JoJo returned to the 2012 VMAs to perform the fifth single, Who's Gonna Fight For Me, that also peaked at #3 and was released in August. The album's sixth single, I Don't Wanna Cry, peaked at #21.

## Tour

To promote the album, JoJo started the Jumping Trains World Tour on April 14, 2012 in Boston and ended in Osaka, Japan in June 29, 2013. The tour have a box score of $123,026,263 dollars in 119 shows.