Skillet's 'Unleashed' #3 On Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart

Skillet premieres at #3 on the Billboard 200 with Unleashed (62,000 units; 58,000 in pure album sales) — scoring the group its third top 10 album. The act has previously visited the top 10 with two more top five-charting releases: Rise in 2013 (No. 4) and Awake in 2009 (No. 2).


The new set also enters at #2 on the Top Albums Chart, #2 on the Digital Albums Chart, #3 on the Physical Albums Chart, and #7 in Australia.  It's #1 on the Top Christian Albums chart, giving Skillet its third chart-topper.

Skillet's performance on FOX & Friends All American Summer Concert Series will be the broadcast debut of "Feel Invincible." The single has been used by the WWE during their Battleground Pay-Per-View, TBS' E-League and Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Sports Awards. The song has also been featured in Rock Band. Also, "Feel Invincible" was recently chosen by the ACC for use throughout the entire 2016-football season. The song will be the soundtrack for the opening video montage to lead into each week's syndicated game reaching over 90 million TV households. This is the second time that Skillet and the ACC Network have teamed up. The video for the single has already been viewed over 7.8 million times.

Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott #2 on Country, #7 Overall Charts

Love Remains, the debut album from Hillary Scott & The Scott Family, bows at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart (dated Aug. 20), No. 2 on Top Country Albums and No. 7 on the Billboard 200.

The album was produced by Ricky Skaggs.






MercyMe made history by scoring its 22nd Hot Christian Songs top 10, as "Dear Younger Me," the fourth single from the group's album Welcome to the New, moves into #9. MercyMe moves into a tie with Casting Crowns for the most top 10s among groups, dating to the chart's June 2003 inception. Among all acts, only Chris Tomlin has earned more (24).

Jamie Grace Sings with Adele Then Appears on TV

It's been an exciting week for Jamie Grace. "Last night I sang on stage with Adele. Woke up giggling," she shared on social media yesterday.

She was randomly pulled on stage to sing with the Grammy-winning singer Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Adele seemed impressed by Jamie's voice and the crowd went wild.



As Twitter exploded with tweets about "Jamie Grace from Georgia," Inside Edition took notice of the trend and invited Jamie on Wednesday night's show to talk about the experience.

Needtobreathe Has the Number 1 Selling Album in the US

The top-selling album of the week is NeedToBreathe’s H A R D L O V E, which debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart and at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The set earned 50,000 units, of which 46,000 were in traditional album sales.

 H A R D L O V E is the band’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, surpassing the No. 3 debut and peak of its 2014 album Rivers in the Wasteland. That set bowed with the group’s best sales week: 49,000.

 The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Aug. 6-dated chart (where Views is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, July 26.

Remedy Drive Featured in TN Hyundai Promotion

Remedy Drive is currently featured in Middle Tennessee Hyundai Dealers' "Music that Drives" promotion. "Hyundai Presents Music that Drives with Remedy Drive," a video of the band cruising through Nashville, including a stop at celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart's studio. The video is featured at musicthatdrives.com, along with Remedy Drive's "Love Is Our Weapon," from their latest recording, Commodity.

"We've had a blast doing the video and being part of the Hyundai 'Music that Drives' promotion," said Remedy Drive founding member and frontman David Zach. "We were able to share our heart in the video, as well as to revisit some of our favorite hometown locations which brought back special memories. Hopefully, people who are introduced to us by the video will be drawn to learn more about our music and our motivation for what we do."

The band's latest recording, Commodity--inspired by their ongoing commitment to fight human trafficking--featured the #1 title track which remained atop national Christian rock charts for seven weeks. Music from Remedy Drive has been utilized on NBC, SpeedTV and VH1, while the band's song "Daylight" was featured in the feature film "The Perfect Summer."