Once largely confined to insular networks, contemporary Christian music is having a breakthrough moment on the pop charts with artists like Brandon Lake and Forrest Frank.

Christian music has historically had a limited presence on the Hot 100. Dating to when Billboard ’s Hot Christian Songs chart adopted its current multimetric methodology on Dec. 7, 2013 ...

In the last two decades, several Contemporary Christian Music powerhouses — Audrey Assad, DC Talk’s Kevin Max, Hawk Nelson’s Jon Steingard, among several others — have publicly exited the ...

Christian pop singer Forrest Frank's hit "Your Way's Better" has been a fixture on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for weeks. Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images In her 25 years in the Christian music ...

“Christian music is making a serious comeback,” Billboard reported in May after the two Christian songs became the first faith-based hits in 11 years to make it on the Hot 100 chart.

Additionally, Christian music ranks alongside country at the top, while rap, hip-hop and pop are among the genres at the bottom of a list of the most-streamed new music released in the past 18 months.

For longtime Bethel Music recording artist William Matthews, it was in part the rigid homogeneity of the Christian Music industry that ultimately led him to walk away. Raised in a Black Church of ...

Christian and traditional pop music has reigned this summer in contrast to 2024's "brat summer" trend, indicating a political and cultural shift, a new report says.

This year, Marconette says christian/gospel music overall has overtaken world music, a genre that encompasses K-pop and Afrobeats. "We've never seen that before," he says.

But in 2014, Gungor’s critiques of the Christian music industry — as well as his public musings on Genesis as a poem rather than historic fact — led to his exclusion from the Christian music ...