FANTASIA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “” FROM FORTHCOMING FIFTH STUDIO DUE OUT THIS SPRING ON /RCA RECORDS CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO “NO TIME FOR IT”

(January 8, 2016 – New York, NY) Grammy Award winner Fantasia releases new single “No Time For It” off of her forthcoming fifth studio album due out this spring on 19 Recordings/RCA Records. “No Time For It” will be available for purchase at all digital service providers on Monday, January 11, 2016. Click here to listen to “No Time For It” on .

The mid-tempo empowerment anthem “No Time For It,” is written by Brian Kennedy, Lance Eric Shipp and Paris “PJ” Jones and features production by Brian Kennedy (, Rihanna, ).

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In 2004, the High Point, North Carolina native became the season three winner of Fox’s . Later that year, Fantasia released her platinum-selling debut album and became the first artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart to debut at #1 with her first single, “I Believe." Fantasia’s second single, “Truth Is,” spent 14 weeks at #1, making her the first singer to simultaneously have two of the top three songs on the Billboard chart. Fantasia’s 2006 eponymous second album featured the #1 R&B single, “,” and reached gold status. In 2010, Fantasia released the critically acclaimed Back To Me, which featured the hit single “Bittersweet” that earned her first ever Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Song. Back To Me debuted at #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart, and marked Fantasia’s first #1 R&B album and her highest Billboard Top 200 chart ranking. In 2013, Fantasia released her fourth studio album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard R&B Albums Chart and #2 on the Billboard Top 200, marking her second consecutive positions on these charts.

In addition to being a mainstay in music, Fantasia adds author and actress to her growing list of accomplishments. In 2006, she released her New York Times bestselling memoir, Life Is Not a Fairytale, and starred as herself in the Lifetime movie of the same name. In 2007, Fantasia landed the coveted role of Celie in Broadway’s The Color Purple for which she won a Theater World Award. Fantasia returned to Broadway in 2013 as the first celebrity engagement in After Midnight, a dance- focused musical that celebrated Harlem’s iconic Cotton Club during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s and 1930’s. After receiving rave reviews, Fantasia joined the cast of After Midnight for a second run in May 2014.

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