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    2023 CCM Magazine Holiday Gift Guide

    Looking for the perfect gift for the ones you love this Christmas? Let the 2023 CCM Magazine Holiday Gift Guide help you find the best in faith-related gifts for everyone on your gift list this year!  Many of our Gift Guide partners help support CCMmagazine.com throughout the year. Show them you appreciate them by checking out these incredible gift ideas for the holiday!   NIV Flourish & Rooted Bibles Bibles to help you connect with your identity in Christ Drawing on the truths of Scripture, Flourish: The NIV Bible for Women strengthens women with insights and encouragement for the issues they face. Meanwhile, Rooted: The NIV Bible for Men helps men connect…

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    Bluegrass Group Chosen Road Makes RFD-TV Debut

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. RFD-TV, the nation’s first 24-hour television network featuring programming focused on the agribusiness, equine and rural lifestyles, along with traditional country music and entertainment, welcomed bluegrass Gospel chart-toppers Chosen Road to its Nashville studio earlier this week. Renowned for their traditional Appalachian instrumentation and tight harmonies, Chosen Road performed their recent #1 single, “I Want To Be Just Like You,” on RFD-TV’s flagship daily show, “Market Day Report.” In addition, “Market Day Report” co-host Suzanne Alexander talked with the band about their bestselling Thoroughbred Records release, It Never Gets Old. With fresh originals and updated arrangements of familiar favorites, It Never Gets Old showcases the hit song “I…

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    PHOTOS: Celebrate Minnesota Featuring Chris Tomlin, Zach Williams, Switchfoot, Lecrae And More

    Minnesota united for two exhilarating and joy-filled days in the charming city of St. Cloud, MN for Celebrate MN.  The event featured performances from Chris Tomlin, Switchfoot, Zach Williams, Lecrae, Blanca, and Christine D’Clario. The unique event operates with the sole purpose of promoting Central Minnesota’s vibrancy. It was organized by a dedicated coalition of local business, civic, and church leaders, all driven by their passion to instill hope, nurture a sense of community, and positively transform lives. At the heart of it all, Mike Silva delivered an inspiring message of hope. CCM’s Nick Luchau was at the event and captured these amazing photos! The post PHOTOS: Celebrate Minnesota Featuring…

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    Riley Clemmons Earns First RIAA Certification For ‘Fighting For Me’

    NASHVILLE, TN Last Thursday, Capitol CMG presented multi-talented artist and one of People Magazine’s Emerging Artists Riley Clemmons with a plaque recognizing the Gold certification of her single, “Fighting For Me,” alongside co-writers Jordan Sapp and Ethan Hulse and producer Jordan Sapp at an intimate album release party. This milestone marks a first for Riley, who has amassed over half a billion global streams and 85 million YouTube views since the beginning of her career. “Fighting For Me” was released as the lead single for Riley’s sophomore album, Godsend, and quickly became her top performing song with over 160 million worldwide streams.   “Truly, I’m just so excited and completely…

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    Chris Tomlin Celebrates Unprecedented Career Milestone; Presented With Four New RIAA Plaques

    Nashville, Tenn. (September 26, 2023) Chris Tomlin, the “most often sung artist in the world” according to Time Magazine, celebrated with industry, family and friends today a monumental benchmark as his recent six- week #1 single “Holy Forever,” marks the historic achievement of holding the #1 position on a radio chart for OVER 3 YEARS, totaling in 157+ weeks. Tonight’s celebration of the highly regarded worship leader, songwriter and artist took an unexpected turn as Tomlin himself presented a plaque to Capitol Christian Music Group for the unprecedented accomplishment. “I have had the great honor of receiving many awards and accolades, commemorating different achievements throughout my career… but today is…

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    PHOTOS: Skillet Performs At UpRise Fest In Shippensburg, PA (September 16, 2023)

    Uprise Festival returned with another year of family fun and Christian music. More than 30 bands and artists gathered on three different stages in Shippensburg, PA for two incredible nights of rock and pop performances by artists and bands, including Skillet, Lacey Sturm, Newsboys, Chris Tomlin, Josh Baldwin, Disciple, Social Club Misfits, Steven Malcolm, and more. CCM’s Chelle Propst captured these photos from the event. The post PHOTOS: Skillet Performs At UpRise Fest In Shippensburg, PA (September 16, 2023) appeared first on CCM Magazine.

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    Elevation Worship’s ‘O Come To The Altar’ RIAA-Certified Double Platinum

    26 September 2023 – Nashville, TN / Charlotte, NC The chart-topping single “O Come To The Altar” from the GRAMMY Award-winning and multi-platinum group Elevation Worship has been certified Double Platinum by the RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA® (RIAA). This is their first double-platinum single. “I’m completely blown away by the news that ‘O Come To The Altar’ has touched this many lives,” shares Elevation Worship’s Chris Brown, who co-wrote the song with Pastor Steven Furtick, Mack Brock, and Wade Joye. “I think it’s amazing that a song about the open invitation Jesus offers all of us to come just as we are to Him has meant so much to…

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    BREAKING NRT NEWS John Cooper to Release Second Book

    John Cooper, lead-singer of 17x platinum rock band Skillet, author of the best-selling book Awake & Alive to Truth, and host of the popular Cooper Stuff podcast, is ready to tell America how “truth can save us from Utopian destruction,” in his forth-coming second book, Wimpy, Weak, and Woke coming this fall on November 14, and available for pre-order now. Cooper spoke exclusively with FOX News personality Brian Kilmeade during his radio show yesterday about the book, which is already being heralded by numerous notable media personalities, authors, podcasters, and theologians. “The increasing conflicts in America today are often referred to as a ‘culture war,’ but what is truly happening…

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    Love & The Outcome Release New Single

    Multi-GMA Canada Covenant Award-winners Love & The Outcome return with the recently released “Human,” a buoyant pop anthem signaling the husband/wife duo’s emergence from one of the toughest seasons of their life. The Curb Word single, written by Love & The Outcome’s Jodi King along with Taylor Agan and Jonathan Gamble–who also produced the track–was inspired by the couple’s journey to rebuild their lives after the loss of their home in a flood two years ago. “I remember playing a show the week after our house flooded, and the first thing that came out of my mouth when I stepped onstage was, ‘You don’t become a Christian and stop being…

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    Lauren Daigle Joins Forces with Music Health Alliance

    On Tuesday, September 19, at Belmont University’s The Fisher Center for Performing Arts, Music Health Alliance (MHA)–the music industry’s crucial nonprofit healthcare resource 2x GRAMMY award-winning artist Lauren Daigle, and special guests came together to address the critical healthcare needs of the music industry’s fast-growing senior population. The partnership not only marks another industry first for MHA, but it also establishes a first-of-its-kind combined senior healthcare program and fund designed specifically for music industry veterans and legacy music makers. Approximately 20% of the 20,000 music industry clients MHA has served over the past ten years are aged 55 and older, resulting in $6.5M in senior medical savings. The seed money…