Superchick has made career history, posting the best-ever first week sales numbers in the band’s still-young history.
And Third Day also is making some news, becoming the first Christian band to make the cover of Billboard Magazine as it prepares to release a new album.
But the top album in Christian music this first week of July belongs to Kutless, the hugely popular harder-rockers, with “To Know That You’re Alive.”
The Portland band has made quite a career for itself since forming in the late 1990s, carving out a huge swath of music fans across all genres.
Its anthem-rock sound particularly catches on with high-school-age and college-age fans, with an honest, pure Gospel message, and also a commercial Metallica-esque sound that brings in non-churchgoers as well.
(Any of you who were there remember how Kutless gave quite a show a few years ago at Manheim Brethren In Christ Church, and the opening act that night has had quite a career since then, too … Stellar Kart.)
Meanwhile, Superchick has nabbed the number-2 position on top-selling Christian music charts with its new “Rock What You Got.”
“Next to my salvation and my wedding, this has been one of the greatest weeks of my life,” band bass player Matt Dally said.
“Rock What You Got” has been eagerly anticipated by fans, since it’s Superchick’s first album in three years.
And Third Day, of course, reigns along with maybe Casting Crowns as the best-known band in Christian music.
And Third Day graced the cover of Billboard Magazine in June, ahead of the July 29 release of its new album, “Revelation,” one of the most-anticipated Christian records of 2008.
The first hit song from the record, “Call My Name,” has been getting lots of Christian-music airplay, and for good reason … it sounds like Third Day’s best song in at least a few years, featuring Mac Powell’s always-powerful vocas over a nice layer of plaintive guitars.