NEW YORK (AP) — It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: ...

Switched on Pop ’s Charlie Harding echoed this. Christian contemporary music used to sound like “whatever’s happening in pop music, five years too late,” he told me. A fan of a secular band could ...

In her 25 years in the Christian music industry, Holly Zabka, president of Provident — a Sony subsidiary dedicated to Christian music — has never encountered a moment of such prominence for the genre.

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A few days after the star singer Forrest Frank fell off his skateboard, crashed into a wall and fractured two vertebrae, he previewed a new track about the accident on TikTok. Frank, formerly a member ...

It’s a Thursday afternoon in late August and the musician Bodie is at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, Calif. When he’s not on tour or recording Christian pop jams, Bodie holds down a day job as ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: ...

FILE - Lauren Daigle appears at the 66th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — It is one of the most surprising music stories ...