With You Are More, Contemporary Christian rock band Tenth Avenue North can’t seem to do any wrong. Its debut CD, Over and Underneath, yielded three #1 CCM AC singles, namely By Your Side, Hold My Heart, and Love is Here, one of 2009′s biggest singles. Its second CD, The Light Meets the Dark, birthed Healing Begins, another #1 single. One of CCM’s most respected new artists, Tenth Avenue North almost literally had me drooling in...

Sanctus Real scores six weeks on top of the Billboard Christian Songs chart with Lead Me. My main question is this: where is #8 Hold Us Together by Matt Maher? Are you telling me it fell from #8 to out of the Top 50? It’s not listed in the Top 10 Biggest Falls on the chart this week. What happened here?? Maher’s unexplained disappearance brings Casting Crowns back to the Top 10 with If Ever We’ve Needed You. Two new entries...

American Idol Season Seven finalist Jason Castro has signed with Christian recording label Word Entertainment to release his first Christian CD, Who I Am, which drops November 9 (via Atlantic Records) via his official website and all Christian retailers. Jason Castro’s Christian carrier single, You Are, is one of the top five most added songs at Christian AC this week. You Are is a decidedly different slant for Jason Castro, who was a...

Two days ago, a good friend of my wife’s passed away. Mari was a beautiful, vivacious God-servant, wife, and mother of one, soon to be two. Jake is seven, and Alexandria was eight months in her mother’s womb. Hers was a difficult and high-risk pregnancy, and Mari’s heart gave out sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning; unfortunately, Alex, too, didn’t make it. The circumstances behind Mari and...

Five weeks now for Contemporary Christian band Sanctus Real atop the Billboard Christian Songs chart with Lead Me. It’s so popular that one of the pastors at the church in Manila where I used to work asked me if I’d heard about it, and when the local pastors hear of a song without my referral, that tells me something. LOL One new entry to the Top 10 this week: Matthew West My Own Little World. The only debut this week:...