"Battlefield" is a song from American R&B/pop singer-songwriter Jordin Sparks. It serves as the lead single from Sparks' second studio album, Battlefield, which is due July 21, 2009. The single was added to US iTunes on May 12, and was first performed live on American Idol on May 13, 2009. It is scheduled for a full world-wide release in June

Philip Andelman was booked to shoot the music video in Los Angeles before the single was perfomed live on American Idol. Andelman has shot videos for the likes of Beyoncé Knowles, Jesse McCartney and Jonas Brothers. The video began production on May 13 and shooting was completed by May 14, 2009.

Entertainment Tonight got a behind the scenes of "Battlefield" and also had a short interview with her about American Idol season 8 finalists.

The video premiered on MTV June 8, 2009. And MTV played it on heavy rotation all day for the remainder of the day every hour.

The video premiered in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2009 and has since been on heavy rotation on several music channels. It charted at number one in 4Music's "This Week's Top 20".

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Sparks explains that they were trying to put across the notion that she is "coming from someplace, hurt". The entire video is shot at what appears to be a park, or in her own words, "the nearest open place that I find".