Forrest Frank Wins Two GMA Dove Awards
Billboard’s Top New Christian Artist of 2023, Forrest Frank, has won his first-ever GMA Dove Awards for New Artist of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year with his massive hit “Good Day.” The first-time nominee also performed a medley of the winning track along with his viral hit “No Longer Bound” during the national broadcast, which aired earlier this evening on TBN.
Frank spoke with Billboard earlier this week, echoing the sentiments in his Dove-Award acceptance speech, saying “This whole journey just has felt like a gift from God, and He’s just continued to bless me with new songs and new ideas,” Frank adds. “I can’t take any credit for it. Anytime anything good happens, it’s just like, ‘Okay, God for whatever reason has selected me as a vessel for Him.’”
Following the success of Frank’s genre-debut GOD IS GOOD EP, which reached Top 5 on the Top Christian Albums chart, his first full-length project, CHILD OF GOD released this past July and quickly slid into the No.1 spot on the iTunes All Genres chart.
CHILD OF GOD has held the No.1 spot on the Billboard Christian Albums Chart for NINE weeks, making it the biggest Christian album debut of the year so far.
Frank’s new radio single, “Never Get Used To This” featuring JVKE debuted at #30 on the Mediabase Christian Audience chart on September 20 with 1.5M in total audience. The track is already trending Top 25 on Mediabase Christian Audience and Top 40 on Mediabase Christian AC this week with 13 stations on, including KLOVE, Spirit 105.3 in Seattle, The River in Columbus, The Light FM in Asheville, JoyFM in St. Louis, The Fish in Cleveland, Boost Radio network and Life 88.5 in Kansas City.
In addition to album sales and radio hits, the momentum Frank has generated with his music is explained in the massive and continued growth on his socials, with a base that has boomed to over 4 million fans on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok alone, and over 6 million Spotify monthly listeners.
