Korean girl group Secret has released a PV (preview video) for So Much For Goodbye, a track that will apparently feature on the ladies’ second Japanese single, scheduled to drop at the end of the month. (That will make an excellent birthday present for me, I’m just sayin’.) I’m not normally a fan of K-Pop ballads, but So Much For Goodbye works for me very, very well. Jieun and Hyosung deliver, as expected, but the big...

Contemporary Christian artist Phil Wickham has followed up his Soft AC/Inspo Top 10 hit At Your Name (Yahweh Yahweh) with another upbeat track, This Is The Day. The second single off Wickham’s stellar new release, Response, This Is The Day is instantly singable and automatically likeable, culminating in that soaring bridge and powerful final few choruses. If there’s anything that Wickham has shown us in his career, it’s that he...

Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Christy Nockels, who scored a hit late last year with Waiting Here For You, has released Ever Lifting, a digital single that is apparently the carrier single of a new, currently untitled album, scheduled for release sometime in the spring of 2012. Coming from the reverent worship of Waiting Here For You, Christy’s new single Ever Lifting is a buoyant song of praise that is, in my opinion, a dose of...

Fresh off the heels of her Top 20 hit Suitcases, new Contemporary Christian recording artist Dara Maclean has released Free, another upbeat vocally driven winner from her debut CD, You Got My Attention. Maclean certainly has grabbed the attention of Christian AC programmers, who are quickly adding Free into their playlists and making the new track one of the fastest growing songs at Christian AC the past two weeks. Personally, I think Suitcases...

My wife, noted KPop writer Caths Deen, recently gave me for an anniversary present the latest album of Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West. The Story of Your Life CD/DVD package is one of the best CCM albums I’ve ever heard for a variety of reasons, and the criminal absence of a #1 Billboard hit from this offering, Matthew’s first since his indie label debut, Sellout, does not undermine the fact that this is a...

At some point in 2011, my Top 10 kinda went offline because my laptop crashed and took the Top 10 with it. After that, it was pretty much to my iTunes to determine what songs should go to #1. Having said all that, this is my personal Top 10 for the year 2011, divided into Christian and Secular (Top 40). Just sharing. (^^,) CHRISTIAN TOP 10 1. Stronger. Mandisa 2. Good Morning. Mandisa 3. Suitcases. Dara MacLean 4. Make a Move. Royal Tailor 5....