MERCYME RELEASES HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED SINGLE, “THEN CHRIST CAME”
Debuted Song at Christian Music Broadcasters’ Momentum Conference In Orlando
Set To Headline Red Rocks Oct. 17, 2022
2022/06/07.MercyMeReleasesNewSingleTheChristCame.asp NEWS SOURCE: The Media Collective June 7, 2022
Nashville, Tenn. (June 7, 2022) — 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.
About MercyMe:
It continues to be a landmark time for the multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award winners MercyMe. They were recently named Billboard’s Top Christian Artist of the 2010 decade, and in 2020 received their eighth American Music Award nomination. A major motion picture based on the life of frontman Bart Millard who wrote the mega-hit song “I Can Only Imagine” after the loss of his father, opened at a remarkable No. 3 at the box office on Mar. 16, 2018 (Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions). In conjunction with the movie release, Millard penned a memoir and the band released a collection of hits titled I Can Only Imagine – The Very Best Of MercyMe. In 2018 MercyMe was named Top Christian Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, was the top winner at the fan-fueled K-LOVE Fan Awards including a win for Artist of the Year, and was the GMA Dove Award Winner for Artist Of The Year. Since their debut in 2001, the band has sold more than 9 million units in CD, single and DVD sales, garnered more than 48 No. 1 multi-format radio singles, and had four consecutive mainstream radio hits. MercyMe made history in 2014 as “I Can Only Imagine” surpassed 2 million digital downloads, making it the first song in Christian music to go platinum and double-platinum in the digital domain. The song has now gone 4x platinum. In 2009, Billboard named MercyMe’s “Word Of God Speak” the No. 1 Song of The Decade and the group the No. 1 Artist of the Decade in both the Christian Songs and Christian AC Songs categories, recognizing them as one of the industry’s most notable talents. They have sold out venues throughout the US and Canada, including Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and have appeared on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Good Morning America, GMA3, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, FOX New Channel’s FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC News and in the pages of Entertainment Weekly,The New York Times, USA Today and more. Their tenth album, inhale(exhale), is available now.
This Friday, July 17
ALBUMS Mark Bishop Where Do Blessings Come From? [Sonlite] Drown The Planet The Blessed /// The Cursed - EP [Charon Collective] ELEVATION RHYTHM Washed [Elevation] The Emerging Sound Jesus, the Light of the World [People & Songs] Justin Gambino Garden Of The Lord [Residence Music] IDEGO IDEGO - EP (independent) Mangled Carpenter Between Blood And Silence - EP [Rottweiler] Small Voice Testimonies - EP (independent) Tenroc God Is A Person [Provident]
SINGLES AustinThaNoble Cakewalk - Single [Syntax] Josh Baldwin Spirit of the Living God - Single [Bethel] Destiny Barber what happened to love? - Single [Harmony] Pat Barrett Count On You (Worship Together Sessions) - Single [Capitol CMG] EJ Swavv, Rahlan Kay, Sons of Mack Push - Single [Syntax] Emery Stimulated - Single (independent) J.Solo, Monster Tarver, YP aka Young Paul Invisible Warfare - Single [Syntax] JusRzd, Mic Wise, Cyrus Sonata Double or Nothing - Single [Syntax] John Long Trust In Him - Single (independent) Jake MacAdam & Diana Trout I Will Lead - Single (independent) Myles Maestro FEAR - Single [Syntax] Nineties Worship Night + Elenee I Will Never Be - Single [NWN] Jeannie Ortega Never Forgotten - Single [Syntax] Matthew Plante OPEN MY EYES - Single [Dream] Red Worship Memories- Single (independent) Remnant House Nothing Without Him - Single (independent) The Rogers Family Secret Place - Single [Horizon] Sanctus Real The War I'm In - Single [The Fuel] Shelltown Paradise In the Fall - Single (independent) Matthew West Back to Jesus - Single [Provident]
Next Friday, July 24
ALBUMS Leanna Crawford Thank God [Provident] Charles Wesley Godwin Christian Name [Big Loud] Ezra Worship Initiative Great and Glorious God EP [NCS] The Inspirations Songs For Our American Culture [Horizon] Josh Snodgrass Acoustic Worship (independent) Tyraels Ascension Grave Seeker [Rottweiler]
SINGLES Beach Chapel Give You The World - Single (independent) Elle Limebear Give Me Joy - Single [Wings] Lloyd Nicks Paper-Maché - Single [Wings] Andy Riemersma Holding Me Down - Single [Dream] Sleeping At Last Echo - Single (independent) Joel Vaughn Like God Does - Single (independent) Phil Wickham Everyday Hallelujah - Single [Fair Trade]