GRAMMY®, AMA and five-time Dove Award-winning “Group of the Year”, Casting Crowns logs a new sales milestone with this week’s blockbuster debut of its 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. Casting Crowns’ Until The Whole World Hears is the third strongest album debut in the country on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart behind John Mayer and Norah Jones.

In addition, Casting Crowns is the only artist in the Billboard 200’s Top 5 to demonstrate an upward sales trend from its last release, The Altar and The Door which scanned 130,000. This week the band sold 234,000 units cumulatively across its catalogue, including another strong sales week of its recent RIAA® certified Gold® Christmas album Peace On Earth scanning 56,099 this week alone.

“I can’t express how thrilled and humbled I am by what Casting Crowns has achieved this week,” shares Provident Music Group President and CEO Terry Hemmings. “Seeing this band develop and grow over the last six years has been an amazing experience for all of us. Knowing that this is simply an extension of their church ministry makes these numbers mean something significant in so many ways. There is much to learn from the consumers’ response to the music and message this band is delivering.”

Until The Whole World Hears follows the platinum-selling band’s historical debut of The Altar and The Door, in 2007, which debuted at no. 2 on The Billboard Top 200 chart. To date, all of the Atlanta-based band’s projects are RIAA® certified, with a monster tally of two RIAA® Platinum® albums, two RIAA® Platinum® DVDs, two RIAA® Gold® albums and a Gold® DVD, further establishing its unprecedented six-year career.

Over the last week, the band performed its ninth no. 1 song “Until the Whole World Hears” live on-air for radio stations around the country, including the national K-Love network, plus the Houston, Nashville, Atlanta and New York markets. Hall also interviewed on street week with Associated Press radio, Gospel Music Channel, and live with Moody’s talk programs “Midday Connection”, and “Chris Fabry Live”. As promotion continues for Until the Whole World Hears, partners including Yahoo! Music, Verizon and AT&T have featured new music streams, and exclusive new ring tones from the album.

The album’s title track spends a third week at no. 1 on Billboard’s AC-Indicator radio chart, marking a ninth career chart-topping song for Casting Crowns. The hit song also moves up to no. 2 on Billboard’s National Christian Audience chart and gained 20 million weekly impressions, according to Christian Radio Weekly.

Remarkably, with millions of fans, record-setting sales, tour and radio success, and national media attention, Casting Crowns is a part-time band. As highlighted in a 2008 Billboard magazine article, the seven band members work in student ministry in the Atlanta area, with lead vocalist Mark Hall serving as a full-time youth pastor at Eagles Landing church. Casting Crowns tours and records around its weekly commitment to mentoring teenagers.

With lead singer and award-winning songwriter, Mark Hall’s 18 years in youth ministry, the band’s lyrics are born out of real life situations, inspired by the 400 students and families he has led on a weekly basis since 2001, at Eagles Landing Baptist church. Casting Crowns focuses on discipleship through music in its new chart-topping, 11-song album, giving national audiences a fresh, relevant perspective on loving God and loving people

Millions of fans can now stream the band’s entire catalogue of music and video from the band’s newly created fan-centric web site, www.crownsfans.com. Casting Crowns is also on the road headlining the 41-city “Until The Whole World Hears Tour” with special guest Matt Redman. For tour dates or more information, visit www.castingcrowns.com. Also, follow the band on Mark Hall’s Twitter at http://twitter.com/markhallCC

Find out more about Until The Whole World Hears on Casting Crowns’ YMZ artist page.

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