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Passion

More than 20,000 young adults are expected to attend Passion 2007 conference, held Jan. 1-4 in Atlanta. Artist worshipers and renowned speakers Louie Giglio, John Piper, and Beth Moore, among others, are scheduled to lead the gathering.

Since 1997 Passion has sought to foster unity and connectivity among local churches and campus ministries, resulting in a louder anthem of God’s renown. With more than 1.5 million CDs sold, the Passion movement has delivered some of the biggest songs in the church today and helped launch Chris Tomlin and David Crowder Band’s careers.

Sixstepsrecords’ ninth Passion project, Passion: Everything Glorious (EMI CMG), released Apr. 4, 2006 and became an immediate best seller. The album claimed the No. 1 position on the SoundScan Christian retail sales chart and landed at No. 69 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

“I’m thrilled with the sales success of Passion: Everything Glorious, and for our retail partners who resonate with Passion and its vision to reach college campuses for God,” says David Crace, EMI CMG Label Group, Marketing Sr. VP. “This music is extremely relevant to college kids, but also resonates with anyone who enjoys modern worship music. ”

Passion is expecting even bigger things in the future. Now they’re becoming established enough to start celebrating their past. Passion has put together the definitive collection of songs from the movement over the last 10 years. Best of Passion, a two-CD compilation, is set to release Dec. 26.

This comes on the heels of the sixsteps’ Sept. 26 release of See the Morning, the newest release from 2006 GMA Artist and Male Vocalist of the year, Chris Tomlin; and on the same day as Matt Redman’s (also a 2006 Dove-award winner) newest, Beautiful News.

posted by Carrie @ 10/04/2006