Nikki Cleary (born May 11, 1988 as Brittney Nicole Cleary) is a pop-rock singer. Cleary first hit the pop market with the catchy song ¡°I.M. Me¡± while still using her given name. Her debut album, Everything I Wished For, was released independently under the Free Falls record label. The album hit #45 on Billboard¡¯s Top Independent Albums chart. When Cleary signed with Jive Records in the summer of 2002, they asked to change her name because they already had a Britney on their roster. Her self-titled album, Nikki Cleary was released in the summer of 2003 with the hit single ¡°1-2-3¡± making noise on Billboard¡¯s Radio Disney Top 30.
She was featured on a Nickelodeon Kids¡¯ Choice Awards record in 2003. Once performed on Nickelodeon¡¯s ¡°All That.¡± Nikki Cleary also did a version of ¡°Summertime Guys¡±. Nikki contributed to the Mean Girls motion picture soundtrack with the song ¡°Hated¡±. The song wasn¡¯t put on her own albums because it had words like ¡°bitch¡± and ¡°I wish you would choke and die¡± and it would disrupt her squeaky clean image.