6/7/2023 0 Comments Kirk franklin stomp"In today's Christian music realm, better music is being made, more commercial music, and it is much less stigmatized," Styll says. John Styll, publisher and editor of CCM (Contemporary Christian Music), suggests something a little more mundane for the first massive crossover gospel hit since 1969's "Oh Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers. "We prayed for this specifically, but it's still awesome and you just know there's a supernatural component to it." Gospo Centric is home to Kirk Franklin and the Family, the most successful recording act in gospel history God's Property is on the B-Rite label, run by her husband, Claude Lataillade. "We prayed for a lot of things, this being one of them," she says. Vicki Mack-Lataillade, founder and owner of Gospo Centric, agrees. "We knew when Kirk came to the project that it was a fantastic song but not in my furthest dream did I expect this level of success." "I'm just blown away by it," says Linda Searight, a veteran music teacher who founded God's Property in 1992 as a haven for at-risk youth. "There's a demand for people's spirits to be uplifted, to know about the love of Jesus, and for young people to get back to the foundations of Christian faith." "I believe it all has to do with supply and demand," says Franklin. Next Tuesday, the group is scheduled to perform on "The Tonight Show." The pulse-quickening video for "Stomp" has been getting heavy rotation on BET, MTV and even The Box, with urban radio stations putting it in their mix, as well. In its first week, the God's Property album sold 120,000 copies, more than three times what Michael Jackson's new release did a week before. 3 on Billboard's pop chart (while topping the gospel and R&B charts). "Stomp" also has a sales thing going, with "God's Property From Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation" opening at No. Kirk Franklin makes that promise at the start of "Stomp," but even gospel's hottest young star couldn't possibly have foreseen the success of the gospel/hip-hop track by God's Property, a youthful 50-voice choir from Dallas that promises "a Holy Ghost party" and joyfully anticipates "getting a church thing going." Or that we've gotten too radical with our message For those of you who think gospel music has gone too far
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