PEACE BE STILL
THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM HOPE DARST
IS OUT NOW!
NEWS SOURCE: Merge PR August 21, 2020
Today is the day! Fair Trade Services artist and songwriter Hope Darst releases her debut album. Peace Be Still, which has already hit No. 1 on the iTunes Top 40 US Christian & Gospel Albums Chart.
“I’m blown away thinking about this right now,” said Hope. “I dreamed of being an artist for the first 25 years of my life and then laid that dream aside to pursue what God had called me to do—raise a family and serve the local church. I never imagined that so many years later, God would lead me back to my first dream of writing and releasing music as an artist."
Peace Be Still was produced by Jonathan Smith (Zach Williams, Phil Wickham, Passion) and Max Corwin. Click here to listen/purchase Peace Be Still.
Peace Be Still is also the name of the album's first single, which Darst wrote in 2017 with Mia Fieldes and Andrew Holt, fellow worship leaders and songwriters at her church. Inspired by the trio's collective desire to overcome disappointment and fear, the song soon became an anthem of hope for their congregation, while churches around the globe also began to embrace its truth as their own.
"Peace Be Still" is currently No. 4 on Billboard's AC Indicator chart, and Top 10 on Billboard's National Christian Audience and AC Monitored charts, as well as Mediabase's Christian Audience and Christian AC charts. It's also playing on approximately 95% of Christian AC stations in the U.S.!
Additionally, the song has more than 45 million digital streams and a radio airplay audience of more than 121 million between her single as well as the extended live version from The Belonging Co's debut album, All The Earth. Hope has already begun sharing the message of Peace Be Still with the media, recently talking with outlets such as CBN News' Studio 5, New Release Today, Worship Leader, and more. Click here to catch Hope share about the story behind "Peace Be Still."
Hope Darst, a wife and a mother to two daughters, regularly leads worship at the Nashville-based church The Belonging Co.
Peace Be Still track listing:
Surrender
Set Free
Promise Keeper
Sing My Way Through
Peace Be Still
Who You've Always Been
Love Like This
Don't Let Go
Let It Out
The Hope of Jesus
I Glorify
Start Over
For more information about Hope Darst, visit her site HopeDarst.com
This Wednesday, October 22, 2025
SINGLES Phil Wickham Fear Has No Power - Single [Fair Trade]
This Friday, October 24, 2025
ALBUMS John Allan Resurrection Power - EP [Centricity] Dan Bremnes The Villain - EP [Curb] Clear Convictions Endure (2025 Remaster) [Resuscitation] Fepeste This World Ain't Mine to Change [Velvet Blue] gio. FINE BY ME [Capitol CMG] God Behind Bars Music Live From Angola Prison Vol. 1 [Provident] Hulvey HE WILL RETURN - EP [Reach] Latter Day Exploits Within Consumed (Expanded Edition) [Charon Collective] VaShawn Mitchell SOUNDCHECK [Fair Trade] MORIAH Nice Life - EP [F2] Tyson Motsenbocker Modern Worries [Tooth & Nail] Smalltown Poets St. Augustine (independent) Zahriya Zachary Rediscovery [Bethel]
SINGLES 29:11 Worship, Zion Rempel You Never Fail (feat. Emily Guy) - Single [DREAM] The Band JAREN Poetic - Single [Hit and Run] Joe L Barnes Grief, Joy, Gratitude - Single [Provident] Brandon Lake, Jon Batiste, & Jelly Roll Hard Fought Hallelujah - Single [Provident] Jonathan Cain No One Else - Single [The Fuel] Chad Cory, Zacardi Cortez My First Love (Remix) - Single [DREAM] Leanna Crawford Beginning Of Your Grace - Single [Provident] darthy Juniper Tree - Single [WieRok] EJ Swavv & Jericko Love Like This - Single [Syntax] Emerson Day Midnight Hour - Single [Fair Trade] Good Weather Forecast lows2highs - Single [DREAM] goodwill. REST - Single [Syntax] Grace + Max Rich - Single [WieRok] Mat Kearney Good Old Days - Single (independent) Kelo Car Freestyle - Single [Syntax] Vic Lucas I Need You (ft. IsaiahLaRoi) - Single [Syntax] Jamie Macdonald You Can't Take My Song - Single [Capitol CMG] Myles Maestro I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever - Single [Syntax] Martin Smith, Josh Baldwin I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever - Single [The Fuel] Mercy Tribe Music The King is in the Room (feat. Ayiesha Woods) - Single (independent) Mountains in the Sea Breakthrough - Single [DREAM] Razzie & Glenn Ray Second Chances - Single [Syntax] Seph Schlueter Already On The Way (feat. Benjamin William Hastings) - Single [Provident] Tomb Slayer The Christmas Lamb (feat. Khristian Dentley & Sarah Whittemore) - Single [Tomb Slayer] tonyxtrotter, Yung Drew, Wayne Klassik HOLY HOLY HOLY - Single [Syntax] The Undertaking! All Smiles - Single (independent) Unseen Faith Cold Resolve - Single [Rottweiler Records] Kim Zamolo Your Ways Are Higher - Single (independent)
VINYL Clear Convictions Endure [Resuscitation]
Next Wednesday, October 29, 2025
ALBUMS Brandon Lake Amazon Music Songline [Provident]
SINGLES Tikae Maestro Dwell (ft. Kingdmusic) - Single [Tribe Rua]
Next Friday, October 31, 2025
ALBUMS Hope Deferred Darkness Remains [The Charon Collective] MORIAH Nice Life - EP [F2] SEU Worship What A God [Live at JOGS] (feat. Abbie Gamboa) - EP [Provident] Testimony of Apocalypse Agony in the Garden [Roxx Records]
SINGLES Dreamers My Heart His Home - Single [DREAM] Dust and Grace He Made It All - Single [MTS] Roxanne Grace Try Again - Single [DREAM] Lock & Chi Do To Me - Single (independent) John Long Simple Pursuit - Single (independent) Polished Arrow Music LOTW - Single [Polished Arrow Music] Poor Old Lu The Hurting - Single (independent) Still Remains The Wound and the Weapon - Single (independent) Warren Zeiders How Great Thou Art - Single [Warner]
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Phil Wickham Fear Has No Power - Single [Fair Trade]
