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James Leon, the founder of Miami and Ecuador based movie & TV production company 8th Gear Entertainment, has set the epic biblical franchise starter “Celestials” as the company’s next project.

The No. 1 Billboard Top Christian Albums Imprint for three consecutive years, Centricity Music continues to reach significant milestones as its artists receive multiple RIAA Platinum® and Gold® Certifications and their songs reach the top of the radio charts this year.

Multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY Award Nominee and rising country artist Cory Asbury, has released a deluxe single version of “My Inheritance.” The EP features a new poignant duet rendition of the powerful track featuring Sony Music Nashville artist Corey Kent as well as an intimate live acoustic version recorded in Nashville with producer Paul Mabury. 

CeCe Winans recently announced dates for The Goodness Tour launching in Spring 2024, bringing good news for fans who missed the opportunity to be in the audience the first time around, or who just can’t wait to see CeCe live again.

Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Jonathan McReynolds, Erica Campbell, Israel Houghton, and Jekalyn Carr announced their 2024 tour ‘One Hallelujah’. Produced by Live Nation, the 25-city tour kicks off on March 6 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston making stops across the U.S. in New York, Atlanta, Nashville, New Orleans, Houston, and more before wrapping up in San Francisco at YouTube Theater on April 21.

With a groundbreaking three-decade career boasting chart-topping recordings and genre-defining hit singles, GRAMMY® nominated, Dove Award-winning Christian music trailblazers Point of Grace were recently honored by fans, family and fellow artists during their annual Circle of Friends Weekend in Franklin, Tennessee.

Soul-inspired pop singer/songwriter, worship leader, accomplished pianist and producer Natalie Layne is named by Pandora in its 2024 Pandora Ten Artists To Watch campaign. This annual program highlights 10 of the most promising new recording artists. Previous year’s lists have featured success stories like Dua Lipa, Post Malone, The Kid LAROI and Tate McRae.

Internationally acclaimed, award-winning singer/songwriter/recording artist Jean Watson has released her highly anticipated new Christmas album, Behold: Carols of Worship.

Appalachian Christmas, the 2022 holiday offering by acclaimed Thoroughbred Records artist Chosen Road, recently garnered the #14 position on Billboard’s 2023 Year-End Bluegrass Albums chart, representing year-to-date sales of all bluegrass albums in 2023. The bestselling recording, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart last year, joins releases by such icons and genre leaders as Dolly Parton, Marty Stuart, Nickel Creek and Robert Plant/Alison Krauss in the Top 15.

Christian singer-songwriter David Glenn stopped by the CCM Cafe and gave us this acoustic performance of his first-ever original Christmas single, 'Hope Has Come to Reign.'