Contemporary Christian journeyman Bebo Norman has consistently released first-class material, and if Here Goes, the first single off his new CD, Ocean, out September 28 via BEC Recordings, is any indication, Ocean promises to be the latest in a long line of quality CDs worth their place in your Christian record collection. Several of Bebo’s songs are CCM staples – the moving Great Light of the World and the gentle, introspective...
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2010 Dove Award winner for New Artist of the Year Sidewalk Prophets won that award on the strength of its single, The Words I Would Say, but that track, for all its beauty and chart success (#3 on Billboard’s Christian Songs chart), isn’t the best track on their debut CD These Simple Truths. Luckily for all of us, that track, You Can Have Me, has been released to Christian AC, and is now steadily climbing up the charts. God willing,...
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Christ For the Nations’ My Soul Longs records a second week at #1, fending off, yet again, Nichole Nordeman’s “Beautiful For Me,”, a resurgent Beckah Shae at #3 with Life, and a hot new debut at #4, Heather Williams’ Hallelujah. Next week, I expect a strong debut from Matthew West, so it’s a pretty competitive Top 5 next week. This WeekLast WeekWeeks on ChartTITLE ...
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Chris Tomlin spends a third week atop Billboard’s Top Christian Songs chart this week with One God. If Sanctus Real’s Lead Me hadn’t swapped positions with Francesca Battistelli’s Beautiful Beautiful, we would have had our first static Top 10 in recent memory. New in the Top 50 are The Advice at #49 with Your Love Sets Me Free and… gasp!… Disciple! With Dear X (You Don’t Own Me)! Rawk on! 1. (1) Our God...
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For the record, my favorite Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter is Matthew West. I’ve followed his music ever since More came out in 2003, off his spectacular major-label debut CD, Happy; I love him so much that he has his own category on my website (the only other singer who has that? His labelmate Mandisa). The two albums that followed, History and Something To Say, just upped the ante for Matthew; each CD was clearly better than...
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