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Jump5

American Christian pop group

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ2507061 ↗
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Jump5 was an American Christian teen pop group active from 1999 until 2007. The group was made up of five members from Nashville: Brandon and Brittany Hargest, Chris Fedun, Lesley Moore, and Libby Hodges. After Libby Hodges left in 2004, Natasha Noack joined the group temporarily, but the group eventually set on with the four remaining members. In December 2007, the group separated.

The group released five traditional studio albums together with two Christmas albums. Five of them reached the top 20 of the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart.

History

Jump5 released their self-titled debut album on August 14, 2001. The album was re-released twice, first with an additional bonus track, then with a cover of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" after the September 11th attacks. Over the following two years they released three more albums: All the Time in the World, a Christmas album, All the Joy in the World, and Accelerate.

They opened for Aaron Carter in 2002.

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“Jump5” enters the record as american Christian pop group. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jump5, American and Christian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2007, 2004, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jump5, American and Christian.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2507061. VIAF identifies the subject as 157438625. The Library of Congress control number is no2002005115. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2007, 2004 and 2001.

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