Just over a year ago Mandisa “we’re going to need bigger chairs” shot to instant fame when millions of TV viewers across the nation were captivated by her winning smile and powerhouse vocals as she sang her way into the final rounds of “American Idol’s” fifth season. Today everyone can hear Mandisa again as her debut project, True Beauty, releases nationwide.

“Only the World” is the album’s funky, energetic first single, which has already spent five consecutive weeks on Billboard’s Top Single Sales chart, and is currently #5 on the Christian AC radio chart, receiving over 16 million audience impressions. Written by Matthew West, Sam Mizell and Clint Lagerberg, it captures Mandisa’s joyful spirit well. “We all have difficult days we wish we didn’t have to go through, but it gives you so much peace and joy when you realize that it’s only the world we’re living in, and one day we’re going to go to a much better place,” she says of the song’s theme. “This song makes me want to roll down the window, turn up the volume, throw my hands up and just have fun!”

Rock on, girl!