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A little bit of changing and shuffling this week in the top songs as reported by 20 The Countdown Magazine. That’s good to see.

Jeremy Camp: Let It Fade [Up one spot]
Matthew West: You Are Everything [New this week, debut at #2]
MercyMe: God With Us
Fee: All Because Of Jesus [Up one spot]
Chris Tomlin: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) [Down one spot]
Steven Curtis Chapman: Cinderella [Up one spot]
Natalie Grant: In Better Hands [Down one spot]
Casting Crowns: East To West
Newsboys: In Wonder
Aaron Shust: Give …read more

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Why is it I never seem to be in the right place at the right time? Or I know the right people, but I just can’t take advantage of getting to the right place? That’s the issue today. I just found out about another concert in Texas that looks like it will be a great one.
Performing together will be MercyMe, Jeremy Camp, Pillar, Jeff Johnson and more!
Get tickets from www.itickets.com and visit www.comeworshiptx.com  as well.

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I picked up a load of new CD’s from my local Christian book store this weekend. Here’s the list of albums I picked up. I got a great deal on them out of a bargain bin where they were packaged in bricks of 5 CD’s each.

Sanctus Real – the face of love
Jonny Lang – turn around
Go Fish – snow
The Cross Movement – Gift Rap: A Hip Hop Christmas
Derek Webb – one zero (acoustic)
Caedmon’s Call – In the Company of Angels II: the world will sing
Jill Parr – …read more

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For everyone in the Dallas, TX area here’s your chance to grab a concert with two great musicians I’ve reviewed previously on Christian Music Fan.
Blake Bollinger and Jordan Critz will be putting on a concert at Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church tomorrow night (Sunday, April 13th) at 6:00pm.
The church is located in Allen, TX which is about 20 minutes north of downtown Dallas. Tickets are just $5 at the door.
If anyone attends the concert and grabs some photos be sure and share them with those of us that didn’t get to go.
Image Source: Blake Bollinger and Jordan Critz websites

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My wife just told me that she had just heard this new song by Casting Crowns. I looked for it on YouTube hoping to get to hear the whole thing. Luckily it was there but it’s just the audio, no video.
The lyrics are powerful and in-your-face, which reminds me a lot of what I’ve been liking about Todd Agnew.
What this world needs is not another one hit wonder with an axe to grindAnother two bit politician peddling liesAnother three ring circus society
What this world needs is not another sign waving super saint that’s better than youAnother ear pleasing candy man …read more

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Over the past year I’ve developed a new appreciation and enjoyment for the music of U2. I also have a few different contacts with musicians that have connections to Africa. When I heard about “In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2” I knew I had to get the CD and listen to it.
As soon as I slid this disc into my CD player in the car, I knew I wasn’t going to be disappointed.
The music and rhythms and lyrics were comfortably familiar, but the voices and instruments were unique and beautiful all in their own right. The …read more

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Do my ears deceive me? Are the final 8 American Idol finalists singing a boldly worship song by Darlene Zschech, “Shout to the Lord”.

This is old news I guess now but I’m just now catching up. They performed this song last night for “Idol Gives Back” on Wednesday night but U-verse failed to realize that “Idol Gives Back” is part of the American Idol series recording.
Luckily they performed it again tonight and I got to see it.
Aside from being surprised, could you tell which singers didn’t appear to be too excited to be singing the song? What do you think? …read more

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These are the Top 10 songs as reported by 20 The Countdown Magazine.

Matthew West: You Are Everything
Jeremy Camp: Let It Fade
MercyMe: God With Us
Chris Tomlin: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Fee: All Because Of Jesus
Natalie Grant: In Better Hands
Steven Curtis Chapman: Cinderella
Casting Crowns: East To West
Newsboys: In Wonder
Aaron Shust: Give Me Words To Speak

If you’d like to see who rounded out the Top 20 this week, visit 20 The Countdown Magazine for their complete list of the top songs in Christian music.

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I’m still on my quest to find more and more blogs from Christian music artists and get to know them in ways that you’re just not going to get from mainstream media and news.
I know there are many people who think blogging is just vain because who really wants to hear about the small, boring details of someone’s life? Let me give you a little tip, all of the details of our lives are small and boring to each one of us. Here’s the catch, someone else doing the same little things is interesting and reading about it connects …read more

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Guess what contemporary Christian music artist is a huge Star Wars fan? More importantly why didn’t I already know this?
An artist that I won’t name, you’ll have to follow the link below to figure out who it is if you don’t already know, recently commissioned a team of designers to build a custom desk for his/her office that just yells “I LOVE STAR WARS”.
Find out who it is by clicking here.
Now, I’m going to go spend the next 24 hours reading websites because I’m obviously not reading enough CCM news and browsing enough websites.

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