The Altar Boys Barlow Girl Audio Adrenaline Avalon Big Daddy Weave Francesca Battistelli Jars of Clay Natalie Grant Jeremy Camp Casting Crowns Mary Mary Steven Curtis Chapman Delirious? Mandisa Mercy Me Newsboys Relient K Rebecca St. James TobyMac Jaci Velasquez Chris Tomlin
00s Christian Music Timeline /Overview
• some Christian songs to remember 2000-2009
  • • BORN AGAIN
    Third Day w/Lacey Mosley
  • • MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU
     Jonny Diaz
  • • I WILL RISE
    Chris Tomlin
  • • THE MOTIONS
     Matthew West
  • • FREE TO BE ME
     Francesca Battistelli
  • • REVELATION SONG
     Phillips, Craig & Dean
  • • BY YOUR SIDE
     Tenth Avenue North
  • • WAIT AND SEE
     Brandon Heath
  • • THERE WILL BE A DAY
     Jeremy Camp
  • • IN THE HANDS OF GOD
     Newsboys
  • • YOU FOUND ME
     Big Daddy Weave
  • • PERFECT PEOPLE
     Natalie Grant
  • • UNTIL THE WHOLE WORLD HEARS
     Casting Crowns
  • • CITY ON OUR KNEES
     tobyMac
  • • THE WORDS I WOULD SAY
     Sidewalk Prophets
  • • CLOSER TO LOVE
     Mat Kearney
  • • FORGIVEN AND LOVED
     Jimmy Needham
  • • TWO HANDS
     Jars of Clay
  • • THE LOST GET FOUND
     Britt Nicole
  • • LAY ‘EM DOWN
     Needtobreathe
  • • MY DELIVERER
     Mandisa
  • • YOU’RE NOT SHAKEN
     Phil Stacey
  • • ALL ALONG
     Remedy Drive
  • • HE IS
     Mark Schultz
  • • HOW HE LOVES
     David Crowder Band
  • • WHAT DO I KNOW OF HOLY
     Addison Road
  • • WHAT FAITH CAN DO
     Kutless
  • • CAN’T TAKE AWAY
     MIKESCHAIR
  • • ALWAYS
     Building 429
  • • TO GOD ALONE
     Aaron Schust
  • • ALIVE AGAIN
     Matt Maher
  • • SAVIOR PLEASE
     Josh Wilson
  • • WHILE I’M WAITING
     John Waller
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Christian music timeline for 2000-2009


  • 2000
    • Amy Grant marries country music artist Vince Gill.

    • Michael English  is charged by Nashville police with illegally obtaining prescription drugs.
  • 2000
    • EMI Christian Music Group acquires a 50% interest in Tooth and Nail Records. Artists include MXPX, Jeremy Camp, Kutless, Thousand Foot Krutch.
  • 2001
    • Paul Mickelson, arranger, conductor, producer, former Christian record company executive for Supreme Productions, Word Records and RCA Victor, and organist for the Billy Graham Crusades  from 1950 to 1957, passes away suddenly at age 73.
    Paul Mickelson
  • 2001
    • The Benson Music Group  is shut down by Provident Music  because of financial problems as a new-artist label. Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing is not affected.

    2002
    • The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music by Mark Allan Powell is published. The massive 1,088-page book with a CD-ROM contains entries for more than 1,900 major and minor artists from the ‘60s to 2001.
    Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music
  • 2002
    • The sale of Word Entertainment by Gaylord Entertainment to Warner Music Group  for $84.1 million in cash is finalized in January.

    • Mike Curb, , founder and chairman of Curb Records , is named by Warner Music Group as a partner, and chairman in a non-executive capacity of Word Entertainment
  • 2003
    • Jaci Velasquez marries   Darren Potuck.

    • Glen Campbell , 67,  is arrested by Phoenix police in November and charged with driving under the influence and hit and run.  
  • 2003
    • The Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business is established at Belmont University in Nashville. Jim Van Hook , former CEO and Chairman of the Provident Music Group, is named as the college’s first dean.
  • 2004
    • Glen Campbell pleads guilty to DUI and hit and run and spends 10 nights in Maricopa County’s outdoor jail in Arizona, giving a free concert to inmates on his last day served.

    • Jaci Velasquez starts her own Christian record company, Apostrophe Records.
    Jaci Velasquez
  • 2004
    • Warner Music Group is acquired from Time Warner by a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman, Jr.  in March for about $2.6 billion in cash. The Warner Music Group includes Word Entertainment.

    • Jim Van Hook is named CEO and Chairman of Word Entertainment in November.
  • 2004
    • Sony BMG Music Entertainment is formed with the merger of the music businesses of Sony and Bertelsmann A.G. Provident Music Group is a part of Sony BMG.
  • 2005
    • Word Entertainment acquires Spirit-Led Records which includes Fervent Records.

    • Jaci Velasquez ’s marraige of less than 2 years ends in divorce.
  • 2006
    • John W Peterson — who wrote more than 1,000 Christian songs and 35 cantatas — passes away September 20, 2006 at age 84.

    • Gary Chapman — Christian recording artist and songwriter — is arrested by Nashville Metro police and charged with DUI in September.
  • 2007
    • The Gospel Music Association (GMA) 2007 Industry Overview reports that Christian/Gospel music sales reached almost $700 million in 2006 . Christian/Gospel album sales represented 6.75%  of all album sales for the year.
  • 2007
    • In March, Internet radio webcasters protest new $500 per channel minimum music royalties set by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) of the Library of Congress for the period 2006-2010. After a write-in campaign to Congress, the Internet Radio Equality Act  is introduced to roll back royalty rates, but dies in House and Senate committees.
  • 2007
    The Curb Music & Entertainment Learning Lab opens at Baylor University ’s Business Schlool in August for those majoring in   Music and Entertainment Marketing . It’s decor and design honors Waco as the birthplace of Word Records , and includes the history of CCM, gold records, and other memorabilia. Dr. Kirk Wakefield  is Chair of the Marketing Department and leads the new program.
  • 2007
    EMI Group plc agrees to a take over by Maltby Limited, a company formed at the direction of Terra Firma Capital Partners, a private equity group with offices in London and Frankfurt, for $4.8 billion. EMI Christian Music Group is a part of EMI.
  • 2007
    • In August, SoundExchange , the organization set up by the RIAA to collect and distribute royalties to record companies, and the Digital Media Association (DiMA), representing webcasters, reach an agreement to cap the $500 per channel or station minimum music royalty at $50,000 per service. SoundExchange also offered small webcasters a discounted rate agreement through 2010.
  • 2007
    Jarrell McCracken, the founder of Word Records in 1951, passed away November 7th, 2007 in Waco, Texas. He was 79.

    McCracken, a Baylor University graduate, was a 23 year old sportscaster at KWTX in Waco when he recorded a play-by-play description with sound effects called     "The Game of Life" -- Word's first record.
  • 2008
    Larry Norman passed away February 24th at age 60 in Salem, Oregon. His recording of “Upon This Rock”, released by Capitol Records in 1969 and by Benson Music in the early 70s, was the first Christian rock album.
    Larry Norman - Only Visiting This Planet Larry Norman - Upon This Rock
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