After a 2 year break from her platinum-selling music career, 15-year-old JoJo came back with the smash single 'Too Little Too Late'. The song was released August 15, 2006 to North America and was written by Billy Steinberg, Josh Alexander, and Ruth-Anne Cunningham and co-produced by Josh Alexander, Vincent Herbert, and Billy Steinberg. The song is JoJo's biggest hit to date. "Too Little Too Late" broke the record for the biggest jump into the top three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, moving from number sixty-six to number three in one week; this record was previously held by Mariah Carey with her 2001 single "Loverboy", which went from number sixty to number two. However, the record was ultimately broken on the issue dated February 7, 2009 by Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You", which jumped from number ninety-seven to number one.
Bill Lamb from About.com praised the track calling it "One of the best byproducts of TV talent shows like American Idol" and "She could sing then, and she's just getting better with age as amply demonstrated on "Too Little Too Late".
Matt Collar of Allmusic also gave the song a positive review saying "Jojo is an assured and likeable performer who can somehow embody the yin-yang persona of a suburban cheerleader slinging hip-hop attitude, as she does in the video for the ridiculously overwrought and utterly addictive lead-off single, "Too Little Too Late"".
The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and came in at #2 on the Pop Chart, the same chart she topped at the age of 13 with 'Leave (Get Out)'. The song also charted at #2 on the Billboard Digital Tracks.
In 2008, JoJo was awarded by Yahoo! Music with an award congratulating her in 10,000,000 + downloads of the song from their website.
