Casting Crown’s Glorious Day (Living You Loved Me) celebrates a second week atop the Billboard Christian Songs chart, fending off former #1 < a href="http://www.gannsdeen.com/2010/10/11/tenth-avenue-north-you-are-more/">Tenth Avenue North’s You Are More and Mandisa’s Stronger, still holding strong at #2. Greatest Gainer honors this week go to Building 429′s Listen to the Sound. Debuts this week are from Royal Tailor (Hold...

Unbox, the Philippines’ ultimate resource for everything awesome for men, and Somnio Running Shoes, are inviting bloggers to be creative in explaining why they would like to own a pair of Somnio Mission Control running shoes in their Mission Control Contest. Considering how my last running program crash-landed with a sprained ankle – I don’t blame my trusty Mizunos, but they are kinda worn out – I admit I could use a new...

Contemporary Christian pop-rock band Newsboys does everything right. Even as We Remember climbs up the AC charts, the Inpop Records artists release Save Your Life, a free download that comes with the band’s repackaged Born Again: Miracles Edition, which features new songs and remixes of some of the tracks in the original Born Again. Save Your Life is one of their catchiest songs yet under new frontman Michael Tait. I’ve always been a...

Mandisa loses her grip on #1 after two weeks atop my Christian chart with Stronger. Displacing her and scoring her third #1 hit on my chart is her Sparrow Records labelmate Britt Nicole, whose Hanging On skips 3-1. It’s her third #1 hit after You and Set the World on Fire. New to the chart is Filipino Christian singer-songwriter Barbie Almalbis with Goodbye My Shadow at #10. Big Bang’s GD & Top score their first #1 hit on my...

After a four-year hiatus to get married and have children, Philippine singer-songwriter Barbie Almalbis, who is most popularly known for fronting the 90s OPM staple Barbie’s Cradle, has returned to the industry in a very big way. Barbie’s new single, Goodbye My Shadow, is a rousing pop-rock number with impassioned vocals, a mean guitar riff, and thoughtful lyrics that go deeper than one’s typical run-of-the-mill lyrical...