Contemporary Christian band MercyMe follows up its #1 smash All of Creation with another stellar track from its equally satisfying opus, The Generous Mr. Lovewell, the insightful, encouraging ballad Beautiful. On Soft AC/Inspo, Mercyme’s Beautiful is impacting in a big way. It registers the largest airplay increase, as well as the most number of stations adding it (6, compared to the next song, which is 2, tells us Beautiful registers...

Contemporary Christian band Sanctus Real registers a full month on top of the Billboard’s Christian Songs chart with Lead Me. New to the Top 10 in a relatively large way is The Afters, whose Light Up the Sky wins the veteran band its first Top 10 of the year. New to the Top 50 this week are MercyMe (Beautiful, #42) and Phil Wickham (In My Love, #48). Easily the Greatest Gainer this week is Brandon Heath’s Your Love, which rockets up...

Last week, Caths took Nathan and me to Caffe Ti-Amo, a newly opened gelateria in SM North EDSA’s Annex building to sample the ice cream that she says is better than Sebastian’s. (I love Sebastian’s, so I was, like, really? We’ll see about that. *snicker*) Guess what? I actually liked Caffe Ti-Amo! I ordered two scoops of ice cream – the dark chocolate and the milk cheese – while Nathan and Caths ordered a...

Contemporary Christian band Sanctus Real makes it three weeks in a row atop Billboard’s Christian Songs chart with Lead Me. New to the Top 10 is Kerrie Roberts with No Matter What; she is the first solo female artist to break into the Top 10 since Amy Grant squeaked into the Top 10 with More Than A Hallelujah. New to the Top 50 this week are Brandon Heath (Your Love, #34), Abandon (Hero, #44), Josh Wilson (I Refuse, #45), and Andrew...

I wrote about Andrew Peterson a few months ago, when The Reckoning, the first radio single of his brilliant new CD, Counting Stars, was released; the praise I had for him included “You don’t get to hear this folky, guitar-driven type of sound much on Christian radio, which makes it remarkably unique in a sea of power ballads, mid-tempo toe-tappers, and upbeat dance floor rhythms.” With the release of Dancing in the Minefields,...