2007–2014 Maslow made his acting debut in 2008 as Shane in an episode of the Nickelodeon show
iCarly. He also appeared in
urFRENZ in 2009,
Wild Things: Foursome in 2010, and
Arena in 2011. In 2013, he appeared in
The Frozen Ground as Daniel O'Brian. Also in 2013, he filmed an episode of
See Dad Run, playing the role of actor
Scott Baio's former TV son, Ricky. In 2007, Maslow sent his audition tape for a new
Nickelodeon sitcom and received the role of James Diamond two years later in the show
Big Time Rush, along with
Kendall Schmidt,
Carlos Pena Jr., and
Logan Henderson. They also formed the real boy band
Big Time Rush. An album of original songs from the first season plus some others was released October 11, 2010, entitled
B.T.R. It sold 67,000 copies in its first week and was certified Gold by the RIAA five months later in March 2011. On November 21, 2011, the band released their second album called "Elevate" which sold over 70,000 copies on its first week. James Maslow and his bandmates co-wrote 8 out of the 12 songs. Maslow wrote "Elevate", co-wrote "Love Me Love Me" and the first single from the album, "Music Sounds Better With U". The UK version of the album included a bonus song called "Epic" which he also helped write. Maslow and Big Time Rush have a third album called
24/Seven which was released on June 11, 2013. The band promoted the album with the tour shared with
Victoria Justice called the Summer Break Tour. which began on June 21 and ended on August 15. On late Winter 2014, Maslow and the band went to their latest tour called "Big Time Rush Live 2014 World Tour", where they performed in Texas and 7 countries in Latin America.
2021-Now In 2020, Maslow and the rest of Big Time Rush posted a video of them say to stay safe during quarantine. The next year Big Time Rush came out with a single called "Call It Like I See It" and did two shows in New York and Chicago. The next year in 2022 February 25, The Forever Tour came out and "Not Giving You Up"
2014–present: Solo career On March 4, 2014, ABC announced that Maslow would take part in the
18th season of
Dancing with the Stars. He was paired with professional dancer
Peta Murgatroyd. Ultimately, Maslow made it to the finals, but was eliminated on the first night. Maslow finished in fourth place, with an average score of 26.9 (excluding scores from guest judges). In a vote on Twitter, Maslow was nevertheless chosen "in a landslide" to perform an encore of his freestyle dance during the season finale. During his time on the show, Maslow earned the first perfect score of the season for his
contemporary dance to "
Let It Go" from
Frozen on Disney Night. He featured on the cover of the July 2014 issue of
FitnessRx Magazine. Also in 2014, Maslow was cast in the 2015
Lifetime television movie
Seeds of Yesterday in the leading role of Bart Foxworth. He released his first single "Lies" on July 24, 2015. He has also released another single called "Circles" on October 23, 2015. In addition, he has two covers, "Cheerleader" and "One Call Away" available for purchase on iTunes. In 2017, Maslow debuted his solo album titled,
How I Like It from which he has highlighted the single by the same name. Towards the end of 2017, James collaborated with director Joshua Schultz for his music video for the song "Who Knows", off his "How I Like It" debut album. In 2018, Maslow competed in the first American season of
Celebrity Big Brother where he was evicted on day 24. In 2018, Maslow released new singles
"Falling" and
"All Day". Most recently, on April 26, 2019, Maslow released
"Love U Sober", and announced that he is about to start releasing more singles. In May 2019, it was announced that Maslow would be starring in independent film
We Need to Talk, co-starring
Emily Bett Rickards, and written and directed by Todd Wolfe. ==Filmography==