Casting Crowns rocked the music charts this week with with the blockbuster debut of the band’s fourth studio album, Until The Whole World Hears. The album scanned 167,432 copies its first week, making it No. 1 on the Nielsen SoundScan Current Contemporary Christian Album Chart and No. 4 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. That makes…

Gospel duo Mary Mary follow up their American Music Award win with three 2009 Soul Train Award nominations. The hottest sister act in gospel music are nominated for Best Gospel Performance (Male, Female or Group), along with BeBe and CeCe Winans, Fred Hammon/John P Kee, Marvin Sapp, and Smokie Norful. Mary Mary is also nominated…

American Idol’s Scott MacIntyre will join Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding at the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, December 18. Also appearing will be Dee Snider, Warrant, Lita Ford, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Gary Mule Deer, Runaway Phoenix, River of Life Choir, ventriliquist Ronn Lucas and world champion magician Murry Sawchuk. Brad Perry…

Country cutie Taylor Swift and pop legend Michael Jackson swept last night’s 2009 American Music Awards. Jackson received posthumous awards for Favorite Male Artist and Favorite Album in both the Pop/Rock and Sou/Rhythm & Blues categories. Swift took home honors as Favorite Female Artist in the Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, and Country categories, as well as…

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