 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CASTING CROWNS TOPS RADIO WITH TENTH CAREER NO.1 SINGLE“IF WE’VE EVER NEEDED YOU” (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) July 29, 2010– Christian music leader Casting Crowns tops radio charts a tenth time in its unparalleled career with the latest single “If We’ve Ever Needed You” reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian AC Indicator chart this week. The new hit song marks back-to-back No. 1 singles off the band’s RIAA Gold album Until the Whole World Hears. The album’s title track spent a collective seven weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s AC-Monitored chart, and six weeks atop AC Indicator from Nov. 2009 through Feb. 2010. Next month, the 2010 Dove Award winning “Artist of the Year” will bring its new live show direct to living rooms with the release of its new live project, Until the Whole World Hears LIVE, on Aug. 31. The 2-disc DVD/CD will offer millions of fans a front-row experience to the platinum-selling music and discipleship of Casting Crowns. The 54-minute LIVE concert DVD includes an additional 80 minutes of behind-the-scenes content and will launch the premiere of Casting Crowns’ new “Until the Whole World Hears” music video. DVD highlights include Mark Hall’s devotional-styled “Teaching Video Series” and the “Adopting Hope” story which details the Halls’ heartwarming journey to bring home their 33-month-old daughter, Meeka Hope, from China. The platinum-selling band’s recent fourth album, Until The Whole World Hears, sold 167,000 copies first-week setting a sales record as the highest debuting Christian Music artist in SoundScan history (week ending 11/22/09).The album certified RIAA Gold in four weeks, with more than 600,000 sold to date. All of the Atlanta-based band’s projects are RIAA certified, with a monster tally of two RIAA Platinum Albums, two RIAA Platinum DVDs, three RIAA Gold Albums and a Gold DVD, further establishing its unprecedented six-year career, holding position asBillboard’s top-selling act in Christian music since 2007. About Casting Crowns: Christian music’s GRAMMY, AMA and Dove Award-winning Artist of the Year, Casting Crowns is headed by frontman/principal songwriterMark Hall. Despite their unprecedented six-year career with Casting Crowns, the seven band members remain active in student ministry in the Atlanta area and tour part-time around their local church duties. Serving his 18th year in youth ministry, Hall is the student pastor at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta. As a remarkable occasion, Casting Crowns performed for a second time in North Korea in April 2009, in partnership with Global Resource Services, as the band continues to forge invaluable relationships with the people in the D.P.R.K. The band’s tours are responsible for uniting more than 50,000 children with sponsors through humanitarian outfit World Vision. For more information, visit: www.providentpress.com, or www.castingcrowns.com. Follow the band on Mark Hall’s Twitter at: www.twitter.com/markhallCC. Publicity contact: Alisha McArthur, 615-261-6330 / 615-584-7334 alisha.mcarthur@pmgsonymusic.com. For images and bio information, please visit: www.providentpress.com. Comments Your comment will be posted after it is approved. Leave a Reply | ArchivesOctober 2011 CategoriesAll |
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