GRAMMY-nominated band MercyMe recently announced plans for a spring tour. The Always Only Jesus Tour, featuring TAYA and Micah Tyler, is set to kick off on March 2 in Utica, NY and run through April 23 with a stop in Poplar Bluff, MO. Presale begins on Monday, November 28 at 10AM local time in select markets. For more information, visit mercyme.org.
MercyMe released their 11th studio project, ALWAYS ONLY JESUS, last month. The 10-song collection is filled with the musically inventive, lyrically substantive songs that have always been the bedrock of MercyMe’s decades long career, including the project’s first single, “Then Christ Came.” The song follows an impressive streak of 48 No. 1 radio singles that have not only fueled MercyMe’s 28-year career, but also helped define the landscape of contemporary Christian music.
GRAMMY-nominated band MercyMe dropped a reimagined version of their latest single “Then Christ Came” featuring acclaimed worship leader Phil Wickham.
Two years in the making, “Then Christ Came” was originally slated for MercyMe’s tenth studio album, inhale (exhale). However, frontman Bart Millard and his co-writer, David Leonard, didn’t finish the track in time. Yet, knowing it was already a special song, the band included a brief, incomplete demo of the chorus on their latest project.
Recently, Millard revisited the lyrics and finished the song with friends Jason Ingram and Phil Wickham. The song was originally released in June 2022.
“Then Christ Came” ft. Phil Wickham isavailable now.
Multi-Platinum band MercyMe announces “MercyMe Live 2022,” an arena tour hitting 19 cities this fall and featuring returning special guests Rend Collective and Andrew Ripp. Launching Oct. 20 in Saginaw, Michigan, and concluding Nov. 20 in Norfolk, Virginia, the month-long run will visit major markets, including New York, Baltimore and Boston, among others. Tickets are available beginning Friday, July 11 at MercyMe.org.
The touring news arrives on the heels of the group’s latest single, “Then Christ Came.” The song officially went for adds at radio this past Friday (7/8), with early support from nearly 30 stations including SiriusXM/The Message, KTIS/Minneapolis, WONU/Chicago, KJNW/Kansas City, and WPOZ/Orlando.
Two years in the making, “Then Christ Came” was originally slated for MercyMe’s tenth studio album, inhale (exhale). However, frontman Bart Millard and his co-writer, David Leonard, didn’t finish the track in time. Yet, knowing it was already a special song, the band included a brief, incomplete demo of the chorus on their latest project. Recently, Millard revisited the lyrics and finished the song with friends Jason Ingram and Phil Wickham.
“We are just so excited with how it turned out,” Millard shares of the hard-fought offering. “Sometimes we over-complicate things trying to come up with new, creative ways to sing about Jesus. But the message of this song is simple in that it’s about who I was before, and then Jesus showed up, and now everything has changed. We love how it turned out and hope you like it, too!” Listen to “Then Christ Came” across all digital platforms HERE.
The award-winning group will bring their new single, as well as many chart-topping hits, directly to fans on the upcoming leg of the “MercyMe Live 2022” tour. Moreover, ahead of their fall trek, MercyMe will return to Red Rocks for one night only, Oct. 17, 2022. The engagement will mark the band’s second time to headline the iconic venue.
GRAMMY-nominated band MercyMe has released their next highly-anticipated single, “Then Christ Came.” The award-winning group launched the new song across all streaming platforms on Friday (6/3), alongside an official lyric video — watch HERE.
Radio friends were the first to hear the track when the band debuted it live at the annual Christian Music Broadcasters’ Momentum Conference in Orlando last week. “Then Christ Came” is set to impact radio July 8.
Two years in the making, “Then Christ Came” was originally slated for MercyMe’s tenth studio album, inhale (exhale). However, frontman Bart Millard and his co-writer, David Leonard, didn’t finish the track in time. Yet, knowing it was already a special song, the band included a brief, incomplete demo of the chorus on their latest project. Recently, Millard revisited the lyrics and finished the song with friends Jason Ingram and Phil Wickham.
“We are just so excited with how it turned out,” Millard shares of the hard-fought offering. “Sometimes we over-complicate things trying to come up with new, creative ways to sing about Jesus. But the message of this song is simple in that it’s about who I was before, and then Jesus showed up, and now everything has changed. We love how it turned out and hope you like it, too!”
MercyMe is set to share new music, as well as plenty of fan favorites and chart-topping hits, when they return to Red Rocks for one night only, Oct. 17, 2022. The engagement will mark the band’s second time to headline the iconic venue.
Listen to “Then Christ Came” across all platforms HERE.
GRAMMY nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award-winning band MercyMe has announced their upcoming Live and Outside Tour. Following two sold out Show’tel Amelia Island performances earlier this month where fans escaped to the beachfront luxury of The Ritz-Carlton to see the band, MercyMe is excited to hit the road for their first tour since March 2020.
With the first few shows on sale Friday, April 2nd (see dates below), MercyMe will take over minor league baseball stadiums across the U.S. All events will be outside and follow local/state COVID guidelines. For ticket information visit www.mercyme.org.
MercyMe also recently announced the release of their next studio album, inhale (exhale) which will hit April 30, and it is available across all DSPs for preorder now. The project’s fast-rising current radio single “Say I Won’t,” is currently #5 on the Billboard National Christian Airplay chart and #6 on the Mediabase Christian Audience chart, is spinning on a vast majority of Christian radio stations across the country.
The track is a potent declaration of faith and perseverance colored by tragedy. Gary Miracle, a longtime friend that worked with MercyMe for many years, contracted an infection that resulted in having both his arms and legs amputated. His indomitable spirit in the face of such challenges was inspiring. Good Morning America’s third hour, GMA3, will be featuring MercyMe and Miracle in a special segment on April 15th. FoxNews.com originally premiered the song’s powerful music video last December, and the band also performed on FOX Nation’s special episode of Ainslie’s Bible Study, A Concert for Christ.
MercyMe’s Live and Outside Tour (more dates to be added soon): May 21 – Chattanooga, TN | AT&T Field May 22 – Myrtle Beach, SC | Ticketreturn.com Field at Pelicans Park May 23 – Waldorf, MD | Regency Furniture Stadium May 28 – Bowling Green, KY | Bowling Green Ballpark
GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award-winning band MercyMe is set to release inhale (exhale)on April 30, and it is available across all DSPs for preorder today. In anticipation, MercyMe is also releasing a new instant grat track and lyric video for “On Our Way,” featuring Millard’s son Sam Wesley, along with previously released tracks, “Almost Home,” “Say I Won’t,” and “Hurry Up & Wait.”
The fast-rising current radio single “Say I Won’t,” which is currently #7 on the Billboard National Christian Airplay chart and #9 on the Mediabase Christian Audience chart, is spinning on a vast majority of Christian radio stations across the country – including KLOVE, SiriusXM The Message, KLTY/Dallas, KSBJ/Houston, Z88.3/Orlando, WGTS/Washington DC, The Fish/Atlanta, The Joy FM/Tampa, KTIS/Minneapolis, and JoyFM/St. Louis. The track is a potent declaration of faith and perseverance colored by tragedy. Gary Miracle, a longtime friend that worked with MercyMe for many years, contracted an infection that resulted in having both his arms and legs amputated. His indomitable spirit in the face of such challenges was inspiring. Good Morning America’s third hour, GMA3, will be featuring MercyMe and Miracle in a special segment on April 15th. FoxNews.com originally premiered the song’s powerful music video last December. More of Gary’s story can also be seen here.
The 16-song collection (produced by Tedd T., Brown Bannister and Jordan Mohilowski) includes “Almost Home,” a stunningly poignant anthem that topped the charts for a combined total of 17 weeks. There’s also the buoyant “A Little Love” featuring Millard’s close friend Gary LeVox, lead vocalist for award-winning country super group Rascal Flatts. Disco legend and friend Gloria Gaynor lends her signature vocals to “Brand New.”
inhale (exhale) is the latest chapter in MercyMe’s creative adventure, and Millard admits this one was a long time in coming together. “It was two years and one month to the day that we started writing for this new record until we finally finished,” Millard says. “‘Almost Home,’ which is the first single, will be out a year and a half before the record releases. We would have had it done a year or so ago, but when the pandemic hit, it slowed everything down. We practically re-wrote the album two or three different times.”
The band began writing and wound up with more than 40 songs. Millard admits having the new record to focus on offered a welcome sense of purpose during pandemic life, and the opportunity to inhale (exhale). “It’s been a life saver working on this record during the pandemic when you can’t do shows and everything else. I love being with my family but I think my wife is like, ‘Yeah you function better when there is an outside purpose going along with this.’ I agree,” he says with a laugh. The pandemic—as awful as it’s been—has been amazing for our family, just getting to spend so much time together. It’s been such a scary place, but at the same time, it’s been great to have this much time with family, to push pause and not have a deadline. Everything has stopped. That’s a crazy feeling and after a few weeks or a month of me freaking out like, ‘What’s going to happen?’ I realized that we’re all freaking out together. Music has been put on hold and so once I realized that, I kind of let go and started enjoying the fact that some days my most important decision was what flavor of ice cream I’m getting with my youngest daughter.”
“One reason we’re calling the album inhale (exhale) is we all just want to sit back for a second and take a deep breath and be like, ‘Okay this is what matters. This is what matters,’” Millard concludes. “I’m grateful that messages like that seem to resonate with people on a consistent basis because there is hope in that, and if they can still get fired up about what’s to come then not all is lost.”inhale (exhale)
Track Listing:
1- Inhale 2 – Blessed 3 – On Our way (feat. Sam Wesley) 4 – So Yesterday 5 – A Little Love (feat. Gary LeVox) 6 – Whiplash 7 – Bright Side Of Broken 8 – Let Yourself Be Loved 9 – Hurry Up and Wait 10 – Brand New (feat. Gloria Gaynor) 11 – Uh Oh (Here I Go) 12 – The Moment 13 – Then Christ Came (Demo) 14 – Say I Won’t 15 – Almost Home 16 – Exhale
The Billboard Music Award is this an honor given out annually (Usually in may) by Billboard, a publication and music popularity chart covering the music business. The Billboard Music Award is basically the last of the Big three major music awards (the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards).
Here below is a list of nominees for the 2019 edition from the Christian Music Category:
Top Christian Artist: Cory Asbury Lauren Daigle For King & Country Hillsong Worship MercyMe
Top Gospel Artist: Kirk Franklin Koryn Hawthorne Tori Kelly Tasha Cobbs Leonard Marvin Sapp
Top Christian Album: Cory Asbury “Reckless Love” Lauren Daigle “Look Up Child” For King & Country “Burn The Ships” Hillsong Worship “There Is More” Zach Williams “Chain Breaker”
Top Gospel Album: Snoop Dogg & Various Artists “Snoop Dogg Presents Bible of Love” Aretha Franklin “Gospel Greats” Koryn Hawthorne “Unstoppable” Tori Kelly “Hiding Place” Jonathan McReynolds “Make Room”
Top Christian Song: Cory Asbury “Reckless Love” Lauren Daigle “You Say” For King & Country “joy.” Hillsong Worship “Who You Say I Am” Tauren Wells “Known”
Top Gospel Song: Todd Dulaney “Your Great Name” Koryn Hawthorne “Won’t He Do It” Tori Kelly ft. Kirk Franklin “Never Alone” Jason Nelson “Forever” Brian Courtney Wilson “A Great Work”
