As pioneering artist TobyMac’s new hit record (portable sounds) continues its incredible sales trek with 70% ahead of his 2004 Gold-certified, Dove Award winning and Grammy® nominated project, Welcome To Diverse City, TobyMac is also seeing unprecedented support from radio and fans across the country on his “Portable Sounds” tour. In addition, his retail single for Made to Love continues to land in the top 15 of the Billboard Top 100 Singles Sales chart, this week in at No. 11 after 15 weeks on the chart.

After holding strong for nine straight weeks at No. 1 on R&R’s Christian CHR chart, TobyMac is also feeling the love from Christian AC radio for the first time in his solo career with Made to Love, which this week hits No. 2 on R&R’s Christian AC Monitored radio chart.

Capacity crowds in several cities, have been getting a live taste of the February 20th release from TobyMac as the “Portable Sounds” tour kicked off March 15th featuring the hot line-up of Thousand Foot Krutch, Building 429, and Family Force 5. With all three acts releasing new music in 2007, the “Portable Sounds” tour is bringing a fresh new sound to every stop on the tour.

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(portable sounds) debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at No. 10 and No. 1 on SoundScan Contemporary Christian Overall chart, marking this his highest solo career debut. Prior to street week, TobyMac’s retail single “Made to Love” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Singles chart and remains in the Top 5. This single also topped the SoundScan Christian Digital Track chart.

TobyMac released his solo debut (Momentum 2001) followed by the critically acclaimed Welcome to Diverse City (2004), which both releases received Grammy® nominations, and most recently both were awarded RIAA Gold Certification last month. TobyMac is a founding member of the Grammy® Award winning and best-selling group (over 8 million albums sold) in Christian music, dc Talk. He is the founder of Gotee Records and co-founder of the E.R.A.C.E. Foundation (Eliminating Racism and Creating Equality) in Franklin, TN. Recently TobyMac was honoured with the “Artist of the Year” nomination for the 38th Annual GMA Dove Awards, which will be held on April 25th, 2007.