Casting Crowns wins at 2007 American Music Awards

Multi-Platinum and GRAMMY Award winning artist Casting Crowns was named “Favorite Artist” at the “2007 American Music Awards” in the Contemporary Inspirational category as announced November 18 LIVE on ABC from the NOKIA Theatre L.A in downtown Los Angeles. Pictured above is the band, Casting Crowns, with Kirk Franklin and Miley Cyrus.

“This is an incredible honor! Wow, an American Music Award; this is voted on by our fans so it’s very special to us. We’re both humbled and honored to represent Christian music, and its fans tonight,” noted Mark Hall lead singer and youth pastor.

The award show was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and for the first time in American Music Awards history, winners were determined by fan online voting at ama.abc.com.

Casting Crowns is the top-selling artist in Christian music with four platinum-selling projects and seven consecutive No.1 songs at radio. Last week, the new album The Altar and The Door was certified Gold by the RIAA after only 10 weeks since its historical debut at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 chart with 130,000 sold first-week, second only to High School Musical 2 (Sept. 2), setting a new record for a Christian artist without crossover promotion in the mainstream market.

The band’s album remains No.1 on SoundScan’s Top Christian Albums chart for a ninth week, and the project’s first radio single “East to West” is spending its 13th week at No. 1 on Christian AC radio.

The “2007 American Music Awards” presentations ceremony is produced by Dick Clark Productions, Inc., Twenty awards were given out representing the best of Pop/Rock, Country, Soul/Rhythm & Blues, Rap/Hip Hop, Latin, Alternative, Adult Contemporary and Contemporary Inspirational music.

During its four-year career, Casting Crowns has been honored with a GRAMMY Award, three American Music Award nods and multiple Gospel Music Dove Awards serving as the industry’s “Group of the Year” for the last three years. Casting Crowns has been the most played artist on all Christian radio formats combined, with seven consecutive No.1 AC radio hits, and the group has sold more than 3 million albums to date. Casting Crowns’ lead singer and songwriter is full-time Youth Pastor Mark Hall, who is serving his 17th year as student pastor at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta. All seven band members remain active in student ministry in the Atlanta-area and tour part-time around their local-church duties.

Beach Street Records, an imprint of Reunion Records, a unit of Provident Label Group, was launched by Mark Miller, founder and frontman of the multi-platinum country music act, Sawyer Brown. SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT’s Provident Music Group is one of the world’s leading Christian music companies. Provident Music Group operates under the umbrella of Sony BMG Nashville.



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