Casting Crowns was supposed to perform for President Bush last night, but instead the President was off to Iraq on a super secret trip. According to the Associated Press, the White House put out a false schedule saying President Bush would attend the taping of the “Christmas in Washington concert,” hosted by Dr. Phil and…

A Reuters story out this weekend reported that Contemporary Christian radio is now the second most popular radio music format in the U.S. According to Inside Radio, which tracks radio statistics, the most popular format overall is now News/talk, with 2,064 stations, inching out Country, with 2,024 stations. The third most popular format is Religious/teaching,…

This week, staff from EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Music Group and Word Entertainment, along with volunteers from Belmont University, banded together to to package a record number 427,000 meals for the Minnisota-based non-profit hunger-relief organization, Feed My Starving Children. The meals will be used to feed children in Thailand. The more than 1,500 volunteers…

BMI will honor gospel greats Twinkie Clark, Donald Lawrence and CeCe Winans (pictured) at its 10th Annual Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon on Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. The invitation-only ceremony will take place at Rocketown (401 6th Avenue South) in Nashville, and will host gospel music’s premier songwriters, recording artists and music industry executives,…

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