Did you know that decades before the Contemporary Christian Music genre appeared, The Imperials sang on two gospel albums with none other than Elvis Presley? Elvis produced the two Grammy-winning ...

The birth of contemporary Christian rock and pop music in America can in part be traced to a vision received by a 17-year-old runaway from Costa Mesa named Lonnie Frisbee. After stripping naked and ...

Part-sermon, part-rock gig, a new breed of church service is spreading God’s word – and boosting record sales. The cool kids walking into the venue look like they’ve stepped off the streets of ...

In 1966, The Beach Boys released "God Only Knows." The song became a hit, and a classic. More than 50 years later, the duo For King and Country used that old title for a new song (with some help from ...

A bombshell new documentary is pulling back the curtain on the squeaky-clean image of the contemporary Christian music world — and the stories coming out of it are anything but wholesome. “Safe for ...

Contemporary Christian music pioneer Michael W. Smith headlines Belmont's Fisher Center this weekend with a full-orchestra Christmas show.

NEW YORK (AP) — It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: ...

The contemporary Christian music star's first solo entry on the chart also reaches No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs. By Jessica Nicholson Three years after initially earning a top 20 pop hit on the ...

Just as contemporary Christian music has been critical in disseminating conservative Christian ideals, Nashville is a key exporter of contemporary Christian music. The story of contemporary Christian ...

Jonathan Allen Wright, creator of the YouTube documentary series The Untold History of CCM, joins The Christian Post to ...

Christian rock has had a strange journey. As detailed in books like Marshall Terrill’s The Jesus Music and John J. Thompson's Raised by Wolves, it began in the late 1960s as hippie culture encountered ...

(RNS) — The contemporary Christian music industry survived scandals, pushback from televangelists and the wholesale disruption of the record industry over the past 50 years and kept rolling along.