Ciara leaked her song "Promise" in 2006 after a record executive called it "the worst R&B song." And then it hit No. 1.

For Ciara, a Grammy-award-winning artist who sees every mistake as a “beauty mark” and every loss as a future win, pushing ...

The result? "I ended up having my first No. 1 album. And that week was a big week — it was me, Gwen Stefani, Eminem, everyone." Ciara also reflected on spending hundreds of thousands of dollars ...