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Music Monday: Best Selling Gospel Albums of 2009 – Yolanda Adams tops the list!

by admin on January 4, 2010

Billboard magazine have compiled a list of the 10 best selling gospel albums of the decade. No British artist features, but lets hope that by 2011, some British gospel artist will have picked up the gauntlet, challenge and become a musicial force to be reckoned with.

Here is the top 10 list.

1. Yolanda Adams Mountain High…Valley Low
2. Donnie McClurkin Live in London and More
3. Kirk Franklin The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin
4. Mary Mary Thankful
5. Kirk Franklin Hero
6. Yolanda Adams Believe
7. Marvin Sapp Thirsty
8. Mary Mary Mary Mary
9. The Fighting Temptations Soundtrack
10. Mary Mary Incredible

The top five albums in this list all sold 1 million copies or more. The bottom five have sold 500,000 or more.

Tagged as: Artist Yolanda Adams, BESTSELLER, Genre Gospel

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MUSIC MONDAY: Christian & Gospel Charts – Featured Video with Brian Courtney Wilson – Already Here

by admin on November 30, 2009

in Music Charts,Music News,Music Videos,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

Featured music Video

Week of December 13, 2009

Chart Position #5 on the Gospel Songs Chart

Artist: Brian Courtney Wilson

Buy Single: Just Love

Website: briancourtneywilson

Tagged as: Artist Brian Courtney Wilson, BUY Gospel and Christian Music, Genre Gospel, JCL SHOPPING LIST

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MUSIC WATCH: Christian & Gospel Charts – Featured Video with Marvin Sapp – Praise Him In Advance

by admin on November 24, 2009

in Music Charts,MUSIC USA,Music Videos,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

Featured music Video

Week of November 28, 2009

Chart Position #6 on the Christian Songs Chart

Album Cover marvin_sapp Thirsty

Artist: Marvin Sapp

Buy Single: Praise Him In Advance

Buy Album: Thirsty

Website: www.marvinsapp.com

Tagged as: Artist Marvin Sapp, BUY Gospel and Christian Music, Genre Gospel, JCL SHOPPING LIST, Music Video Just Listen

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FYI USA – Event Watch: The Best Church Choir in America Finals, Detroit, Joe Louis Arena on 7th Nov 09. Hosts are Donald Lawrence, Kimmey-Winans and Marvin Sapp

by admin on October 21, 2009

in FYI USA Events,Music News,Music Videos,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

How Sweet the Sound™, The Search for the Best Church Choir in America, and a Verizon Wireless experience, has just wrapped up an incredible 11-city nationwide tour. With Donald Lawrence as host, Lisa Kimmey-Winans as co-host, and Marvin Sapp as judge and performer, some of the best church choirs in America performed before “souled out” crowds for the chance to win $10,000 in the regional event and up to $50,000 overall. Now, the eleven best overall regional choirs will celebrate together at the Grand Finale in Detroit on November 7th. Here, these choirs will sing for the chance to win over$25,000 in cash and prizes and the title of The Best Church Choir in America.

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More than 100,000 people attended the regional competitions across the country. The winners from each regional competition selected to compete in the Detroit finale include:

Resurrection Baptist Church Mass Choir from Houston;
Faith Celebration Choir from Faith Baptist Church in St. Louis;
Remnant Concert Choir from Mt. Ararat Baptist Church in Washington,
D.C.; Marble Community Gospel Choir from Marble Collegiate Church in Newark, N.J.
Anointed Voices of Ford Memorial Temple from Philadelphia;
Selected of God from Praise Tabernacle in Detroit;
Evangel Celebration Choir from Evangel World Outreach Center in Chicago;
Atlanta West Pentecostal Church Choir;
Greater Community Temple Voices from Greater Community Temple Voices COGIC in Memphis, TN.;
City of Refuge P.S.A.L.M.S. in Los Angeles; and Angelic Voices of Deliverance Center Choir from East Oakland
Faith Deliverance Center in Oakland, CA.

www.howsweetthesound.com

Click to WATCH CHOIR

Tagged as: EVENTS Auditions, Events in November 2009, EVENTS Talent Shows, Events USA, Genre Gospel

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FYI World Event Watch – Marvin Sapp Fans are invited to his concert on the Oct 16th 09 via Internet Live Streaming! All for his 5th ALBUM!

by admin on October 13, 2009

in Music News,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

MARVIN SAPP TO RECORD 5th CD LIVE IN GRAND RAPIDS

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Marvin Sapp is set to record the follow-up to his runaway hit Thirsty, and fans around the world are invited to the concert as it is streamed live over the web at www.verityrecords.com.

It will be an exciting evening as Gospel music’s most heralded voice takes the stage to record what is sure to be another hit project. And, for the first time in the Gospel music genre, fans are invited to take part in the recording through a live stream, which will begin with an exclusive pre-show at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Win Marvin Sapp’s Entire Catalogue

In addition to viewing the concert as it happens, fans will be invited into the Marvin Sapp Recording chat room for an interactive experience during the recording that will include special contests throughout the evening, including the opportunity to win Marvin Sapp’s entire catalogue and a call from Sapp himself immediately following the recording.

Watch one-on-one interviews with Marvin Sapp

As an added bonus, chat room visitors will be able to send facebook and twitter updates without leaving the Marvin Sapp Recording page. Those viewing the stream will also be the first to see one-on-one interviews with Marvin Sapp, Aaron Lindsey, and others involved with the recording.

Dream team of Aaron Lindsey and Myron Butler

With the dream team of Aaron Lindsey and Myron Butler returning to helm the project, the recording is expected to be dynamic from the time Marvin Sapp belts out his first note. Fans logged into the live stream can text to purchase a ringtone of one of the evening’s amazing songs – “I Came” – during the recording.

www.marvinsapp.com

www.verityrecords.com

Tagged as: Artist Marvin Sapp, EVENTS Concerts, Events UK, Events USA, Genre Gospel, search FREE

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Video Find: GospelFlava interviews Fred Hammond! He talks about his new album Love Unstoppable – Sept 09

by admin on October 13, 2009

in Interviews,Music News,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

Tagged as: Artist Fred Hammond, Music Video Live Performances

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CHART WATCH: Christian & Gospel Charts Week 40 – Featured Chart Music Videos with Smokie Norful – Justified

by admin on October 2, 2009

in Music Charts,Music News,Music Videos,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

Featured music Video

Artist: Smokie Norful

Album: Live

SINGLE BUY & PREVIEW: Justified

Album BUY & PREVIEW: Live

Artist Website: smokienorful.com

Tagged as: Artist Smokie Norful, Charts, Genre Gospel, Music Video Live Performances, TV WATCH VIDEOS ALL

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AMEN! Third CD from J Moss ‘Just James’ debuts at #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Chart! YOU GO J!

by admin on September 7, 2009

in Music News,Music Videos,NEWS - General,USA Gospel

Album Cover J Moss Just James

Produced by the stalwart PAJAM production team, “Just James” finds J Moss waxing more introspective and worshipful than ever, and that personal touch is resonating with music fans and critics alike. It could be the reason Moss’s first single – “Restored” – is Top-10 bound at radio after only 9-weeks of airplay.

“There’s not a weak spot on the ten-track CD”, reports BlackGospelBlog.com, adding that “‘Just James’ focuses on personal challenges and overcoming them with grace and new-found confidence. Once again, J Moss challenges himself and his audience to embrace risk and change as mountains to climb rather than walk around or, God forbid, to avoid altogether.”

A deeply personal and sonically moving CD, “Just James” exemplifies the life and times of this singer.

“Going through challenges that test your faith, test your marriage, and even test your will to live really change you,” adds Moss in an interview with his label Verity Gospel Music Group. “I’ve gone through a lot over the past year and half or so and, in the midst of having a shattered heart, a shattered life, God picked me up and dealt with me on a one-on-one basis…He said ‘that gap, that emptiness that you’re feeling, that’s where you’re supposed to be…you are not by yourself and I have you in this place so that you can be a light.”