Part-sermon, part-rock gig, a new breed of church service is spreading God’s word – and boosting record sales. The cool kids walking into the venue look like they’ve stepped off the streets of ...

Gospel music is a genre related to (and sometimes overlapping with) country, R&B, and even rock and roll, but its distinguishing characteristic is the intrinsic centrality of Christianity. In modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This decade alone, Jekalyn Carr became the first gospel artist inducted into the Women Songwriters' Hall of Fame, won her first ...

(RNS) — Richard Smallwood, a singer and pianist best known for his contemporary gospel music hit “Total Praise,” died Tuesday (Dec. 30). Smallwood was 77. He died of complications of kidney failure at ...

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: ...

Accra, Sept. 5, GNA – Ghanaian singer-songwriter Lawrence Mensah, known professionally as Muzic Mensah, has transitioned from gospel music to contemporary highlife and Afrobeats, describing the move ...

A bombshell new documentary is pulling back the curtain on the squeaky-clean image of the contemporary Christian music world — and the stories coming out of it are anything but wholesome. “Safe for ...

The contemporary Christian music star's first solo entry on the chart also reaches No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs. By Jessica Nicholson Three years after initially earning a top 20 pop hit on the ...

Just as contemporary Christian music has been critical in disseminating conservative Christian ideals, Nashville is a key exporter of contemporary Christian music. The story of contemporary Christian ...

Salem Media Group sells its remaining contemporary Christian music radio stations to the Educational Media Foundation for $80 million. Salem Media Group has sold its seven remaining contemporary ...