MULTI-PLATINUM ROCKERS SKILLET TO DROP LONG- AWAITED NEW ACTIVE ROCK SINGLE "SURVIVING THE GAME" SEPTEMBER 15



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MULTI-PLATINUM ROCKERS SKILLET TO DROP LONG-

AWAITED NEW

ACTIVE ROCK SINGLE

"SURVIVING THE GAME" SEPTEMBER 15

Band Hitting 24 Markets This Fall Headlining The Aftermath Tour

Nashville, TN ... August 19, 2021- Multi-platinum and GRAMMY-nominated rock band SKILLET has announced their long-awaited, first single in over a year, "Surviving The Game" (Atlantic). The track will be sent to Active Rock radio and available on all DSPs as well as the Skillet.com webstore on September 15th. Fans can PRE-SAVE the single now at https://www.skillet.com/stg.

Produced by Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Papa Roach, Disturbed) and written by John Cooper, Korey Cooper, Churko and Kane Churko, the track is one John Cooper describes as a rally cry for the future and getting through the tough times the world is and has been experiencing.

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"Our new song “Surviving The Game” makes me feel like a bull about to come out of the gate," he says. "Within the first 30 seconds of the song you’re taken on a journey that begins with uncertainty and trepidation and leads to an explosion of energy and life. That sums up how I see the future. This has been a tough season, and we are not yet through the storm. We need hope, we need grit, and we will survive. I hope that when people hear “Surviving The Game” it will be the song they’ve been waiting for."

"Surviving The Game" is the first single from a to-be-announced full-length studio project coming this fall, which will follow Skillet's amazing track record of two RIAA certified multi-platinum albums, two Gold Albums, five RIAA certified multi-platinum singles, and four gold singles.

This fall Skillet will headline 24 shows with Adelitas Way as main support as well as Eva Under Fire. The trek, dubbed "The Aftermath Tour," kicks off September 12 in Chicago and runs through October 22 in St. Louis. A limited quantity of VIP packages are available as well, which include a ticket, pre-show Q&A and trivia contest hosted by Skillet, and exclusive merchandise. All dates are below and tickets are available via https://www.skillet.com/tour.


SKILLET - "The Aftermath Tour"
9/12 — Chicago, IL — House of Blues
9/14 — Cleveland, OH — TempleLive
9/15 — Albany, NY — Empire Live
9/18 — Sayreville, NJ — Starland
9/19 — Silver Spring, MD — Fillmore
9/21 — Norfolk, VA — Norva
9/22 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz
9/25 — Atlanta, GA — Tabernacle
9/28 — Dallas, TX — House of Blues
9/29 — Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall
10/1 — San Antonio, TX — Aztec
10/2 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom
10/5 — Colorado Springs, CO — Pikes Peak
10/6 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex
10/9 — Boise, ID — Revolution
10/11 — Portland, OR — Roseland
10/12 — Kennewick, WA — Toyota Center
10/14 — Las Vegas, NV — House of Blues
10/15 — Tempe, AZ — Marquee
10/16 — Anaheim, CA — The Grove
10/17 — Tucson, AZ — Rialto
10/19 — Albuquerque, NM — El Rey
10/21 — Kansas City, MO — Midland
10/22 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant


SKILLET is one of the best-selling rock bands of the 21st century. The two-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated, Pandora Billionaires Club members, multiplatinum rockers have an undying spirit that has humbly asserted and affirmed them as one of this generation’s most successful rock acts. However, as all classic underdog stories do, it happened quietly under the radar. By 2019, they not only garnered a pair of GRAMMY® Award nods and sold over 12 million albums worldwide, but they also took home a Billboard Music Award for the double-platinum Awake. Its breakout single “Monster” remains “one of the most-streamed rock songs of all-time” with over 3 BILLION global audio streams. 2016’s Unleashed bowed at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. Hitting #1 on Rock Radio, the lead single “Feel Invincible” cracked 643 million global audio streams and went platinum. Meanwhile, the gold-certified Unleashed became their fourth consecutive album to receive either a gold, platinum, or double-platinum status. Their 2019 release Victorious included the top ten rock radio hit "Legendary," which lived up to its name with over 108 million streams. To date, nine original tunes earned RIAA recognition in tandem with high-profile syncs by everyone from WWE and Marvel to ESPN and NFL. Between selling out arenas in 26 countries and four continents, the group performed on CONAN and graced the pages of USA Today and The New York Times, Skillet debuted their first graphic novel, EDEN: A Skillet Graphic Novel with Z2 Comics, which became the publisher’s best-selling book of all time, followed by EDEN II: The Aftermath.

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PEOPLE.COM TALKS FIRST FATHER'S DAY WITH AMERICAN IDOL'S COLTON DIXON Dixon to perform new single, "Made to Fly" on ABC News' GMA3 July 9th





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PEOPLE.COM TALKS FIRST FATHER'S DAY WITH AMERICAN IDOL'S COLTON DIXON

Dixon to perform new single,

"Made to Fly" on ABC News' GMA3 July 9th

Nashville, TN....June 18, 2021 - Continuing their extensive coverage of his family story, PEOPLE.COM has spoken with American Idol alum Colton Dixon about celebrating his first Father's Day with his ten month old identical twin miracle girls, Dior and Athens.

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Dixon told PEOPLE "that the past year with his little ones has been 'incredible' and he is 'so thankful' for the extra time he's had with them at home due to the coronavirus pandemic."

"I never really understood what parents meant, when they're like, 'Man, I didn't realize I could love someone so much,' " he admitted. "But then you have kids and you go, 'Oh my gosh. I would literally do anything. There's nothing I wouldn't do for them.' "

On July 9, Dixon will give an exclusive performance of his latest single, "Made to Fly" during Good Morning America's afternoon program, GMA3's Faith Fridaysegment, which will also be shown on the show's jumbotron in Times Square during the live broadcast at 1pm est/12 noon cst/pst.

In just a few weeks, “Made To Fly” is already airing on 40+ stations – including SiriusXM The Message; JoyFM/St. Louis, MO; WBSN/New Orleans, LA; KNLB/Phoenix, AZ; WJQK/Grand Rapids, MI; and Life 102.5/Madison, WI. The track follows Dixon's 9-week streak at No 1 on Hot AC/CHR with "Devil Is A Liar" and 2020's "Miracles," which hit Top 5 on Billboard's National Christian Audience chart and held on to the No. 1 spot for 6 weeks on Hot/AC CHR last summer.

ABOUT COLTON DIXON:
Colton Dixon quickly became a household name in 2012 when he was voted a fan favorite and made it to the top seven on Season 11 of Fox's hit show AMERICAN IDOL. His career has been on the fast track ever since, now boasting over 100 million streams across all platforms. Dixon's 2013 debut, A Messenger, set the record for biggest first-week sales by a new solo Christian act, becoming the No. 1 selling album by a new Christian artist. Dixon is also a Steinway & Sons artist, following in the footsteps of legendary artists such as Harry Connick, Jr. and Billy Joel. Dixon's sophomore effort Anchor included the most played Hot AC single of 2014, “More Of You," which spent three weeks at No. 1, as well as "Through All of It," his fourth consecutive No. 1 at Hot AC Radio. In 2013, Dixon won a Dove Award for Best Rock/Contemporary Album Of The Year, along with two additional nominations. In 2015, Anchor was honored with the Dove Award for Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year. Dixon received back-to-back K-LOVE Fan Award nominations for Male Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2015, followed by the release of his third studio album Identity, which included the top 5 single “All That Matters,” whose video was premiered by PEOPLE magazine. His latest, critically-acclaimed, self-titled EP, boasting this hit track "Miracles," is available now, as is his latest single, “Made to Fly.”

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MercyMe Announces Live and Outside Tour Featuring Micah Tyler, Initial Dates On Sale Friday, April 2; More Dates To Be Announced Soon

Nashville, TN....3/31/21 - GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award-winning band MercyMe has announced their upcoming Live and Outside Tour. Following two sold out Show'tel Amelia Island performances earlier this month where fans escaped to the beachfront luxury of The Ritz-Carlton to see the band, MercyMe is excited to hit the road for their first tour since March 2020.

With the first few shows on sale Friday, April 2nd (see dates below), MercyMe will take over minor league baseball stadiums across the U.S. All events will be outside and follow local/state COVID guidelines. For ticket information visit www.mercyme.org.

MercyMe's Live and Outside Tour (more dates to be added soon):


May 21 - Chattanooga, TN | AT&T Field

May 22 - Myrtle Beach, SC | Ticketreturn.com Field at Pelicans Park

May 23 - Waldorf, MD | Regency Furniture Stadium

May 28 - Bowling Green, KY | Bowling Green Ballpark


MercyMe also recently announced the release of their next studio album, inhale (exhale) which will hit April 30, and it is available across all DSPs for preorder now. The project's fast-rising current radio single “Say I Won’t,” is currently #5 on the Billboard National Christian Airplay chart and #6 on the Mediabase Christian Audience chart, is spinning on a vast majority of Christian radio stations across the country.

The track is a potent declaration of faith and perseverance colored by tragedy. Gary Miracle, a longtime friend that worked with MercyMe for many years, contracted an infection that resulted in having both his arms and legs amputated. His indomitable spirit in the face of such challenges was inspiring. Good Morning America's third hour, GMA3, will be featuring MercyMe and Miracle in a special segment on April 15th. FoxNews.com originally premiered the song's powerful music video last December, and the band also performed on FOX Nation's special episode of Ainslie's Bible Study, A Concert for Christ.

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About MercyMe:
It continues to be a landmark time for the multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY® nominated, multiple American Music Award, Billboard Music Award and Dove Award winners MercyMe. They were recently named Billboard's Top Christian Artist of the 2010 decade, and in 2020 received their eighth American Music Award nomination. A major motion picture based on the life of frontman Bart Millard who wrote the mega-hit song "I Can Only Imagine” after the loss of his father, opened at a remarkable No. 3 at the box office on Mar. 16, 2018 (Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions). In conjunction with the movie release, Millard penned a memoir and the band released a collection of hits titled I Can Only Imagine – The Very Best Of MercyMe. In 2018 MercyMe was named Top Christian Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, was the top winner at the fan-fueled K-LOVE Fan Awards including a win for Artist of the Year, and was the GMA Dove Award Winner for Artist Of The Year. Since their debut in 2001, the band has sold more than 9 million units in CD, single and DVD sales, garnered more than 48 No. 1 multi-format radio singles, and had four consecutive mainstream radio hits. MercyMe made history in 2014 as “I Can Only Imagine” surpassed 2 million digital downloads, making it the first song in Christian music to go platinum and double-platinum in the digital domain. The song has now gone has gone 4x platinum. In 2009, Billboard named MercyMe's "Word Of God Speak" the No. 1 Song of The Decade and the group the No. 1 Artist of the Decade in both the Christian Songs and Christian AC Songs categories, recognizing them as one of the industry's most notable talents. They have sold out venues throughout the US and Canada, including Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and have appeared on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, FOX New Channel's FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC News and in the pages of Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, USA Today and more.

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TUNE IN ALERT: Amy Grant to Appear on Entertainment Tonight This Evening

Nashville, TN... 3/31/21 - Following recent appearances on Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, Daily Blast Live, in FORBES and much more to come, this evening, six-time GRAMMY winner Amy Grant sits down in her home studio with Entertainment Tonight to talk about the 30th anniversary of her iconic album Heart In Motion, family, life since open-heart surgery and more. To tune in, check local listings here.

Throughout 2021 Grant has been and will continue to share memories, announcing special releases, sharing behind-the-scenes photos, fun playlists, new versions of timeless classics, social media blitzes, more interviews and exciting ways fans can join in on the celebration of "Heart in Motion's" 30th Anniversary. To keep up with all the fun, follow Grant's socials.

It's been a busy season for Grant outside of the anniversary celebrations as well, as she also appeared on The TODAY Show yesterday to perform "A Woman," with Ellie Holcomb, the debut single from the FAITHFUL: Go and Speak album. Grant is also a special guest on the Gospel Music Association's first Easter broadcast special, Because He Lives: An Easter Celebration, which will broadcast worldwide on TBN Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 9:00 p.m. EST / 8:00 p.m. CST with additional broadcasts at 11:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 p.m. CST and Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. EST / 3:00 p.m. CST.


About Amy Grant:
Amy Grant's career spans more than 40 years and stretches from her roots in gospel into becoming an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality and philanthropist. With three multi-platinum albums, six platinum albums and four gold albums, her total career album sales have exceeded 30 million and over 1 billion global streams. Grant’s chart success has been consistent throughout her career with six No. 1 hits, 10 Top 40 pop singles, 17 Top 40 Adult Contemporary tracks and multiple Contemporary Christian chart-toppers. In addition to her six GRAMMY® Awards, Grant has earned 26 Dove Awards (including four Artist of the Year Awards) and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as the Music City Walk of Fame. Conventional wisdom has it that Grant put Contemporary Christian Music on the map becoming the first Contemporary Christian artist to have a platinum record, the first to hit No. 1 on the Pop charts and the first to perform at the GRAMMY® Awards. With that, her legacy as one of the most influential artists of the past four decades is assured. In April of 2016, Grant celebrated the 25th anniversary of her iconic hit “Baby Baby” with a worldwide release of the song featuring pop sensation Tori Kelly. Tennessee Christmas released in late 2016, marked Grant’s first all-new holiday album in nearly 20 years. Last February, The T.J. Martell Foundation – the music industry’s leading nonprofit to fund innovative medical research focused on treatments and cures for cancer – honored Grant with the Tony Martell Outstanding Entertainment Achievement Award at their 2020 Honors Gala.

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Facebook // https://www.facebook.com/amygrant/ TikTok // amygrantmusic

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HARRY CONNICK JR RELEASES NEW ALBUM ALONE WITH MY FAITH – LISTEN HERE Powerful New Music Video For “Alone With My Faith” OUT NOW

(March 19, 2021) – Today, Grammy and Emmy Award winning singer and multi-instrumentalist Harry Connick Jr releases his new album ALONE WITH MY FAITH via Universal Music’s Verve and Capitol CMG – available everywhere now. With the pandemic casting a long shadow in 2020, Connick retreated to his home studio during the lockdown and emerged with an album of new music. He arranged all of the songs, played every instrument, and sang every part. In addition to the familiar, traditional songs, Connick wrote and recorded new tracks that tell the story of his experience coping during lockdown and feeling the full spectrum of emotions that came with it. Both the album cover and the music videos for “Amazing Grace” and “Alone With My Faith” were conceived and directed by Harry’s daughter Georgia Connick. The powerful new music video for the title track premiered on YouTube today and can be seen HERE.

Long regarded as one of America’s finest vocalists and pianists, the sheer breadth of Connick’s talents has never been more on display than with this album. Forbes praised that “the powerful record is a fascinating and moving treatise on the subjects of faith, devotion, spirituality and how all of those come into play during a crisis.” Harry shared his personal journey in creating this singular musical work in his liner notes, re-printed below.

HARRY CONNICK JR Personal Statement

In March 2020, right after news of the pandemic hit, when my tour was cancelled and I headed home for however long it would last, I decided to record some music. Not only because I wanted to, but because I needed to. With no tour dates in sight, and with everyone’s realities upended and futures uncertain, recording was what was necessary for me to help guide me through the uncharted odyssey in which we all unexpectedly found ourselves. I found myself alone (with my faith!) in my home studio, surrounded by instruments and gear, bursting with an abundance of ideas. I was able to go deep within myself as a musician and a man, uninterrupted by the normalcies of collaboration or human interaction. It was a sort of “musical isolation chamber”, a silent retreat, the silence only broken by the sound of my own voice, the instruments I played and the occasional microphone I inadvertently knocked over, as I’m not the most graceful recording engineer that ever lived!

Seven months later, after countless tracks and edits, I can say that it was not only the secluded nature of the recording process, but the content of the songs themselves that helped me through this strange period. In fact, this was the first time that I found this level of comfort, peace and truth throughout the process of making music. Because the lyrics are all about the spectrum of faith, I found myself interpreting them in real time - they were allowing me to heal as much as I wanted them to help heal others. I didn't have to pretend or put myself in another place or time, as one often does as a singer or actor.

Besides the familiar, traditional songs, I wrote and recorded new music that tells the story of my experience during the lockdown. I, like most of us, felt joy, sadness, doubt, conviction, melancholy and inspiration - all the emotions that faith, or lack thereof, can elicit. Even though many of the songs are Christian, my hope is that they will resonate with people of all faiths, as it gives me great comfort to know that faith is an immeasurably beautiful gift that, with its universal spirit, can help bring us together in the most arduous of times.

Some notes on the recording process...

I set up the mics and did all of the tracking.

I used Logic to track and edit. When I was playing an immovable instrument, like drums or organ, I used Logic Remote, with my iPad as the controller. I sang all of the lead and background vocals, as well as played each of the instruments. In addition to all of the acoustic instruments, I used many electric instruments - basses, guitars, synthesizers, etc. However, there are no “soft synths” on this recording - all synthesizers, keyboards and organs are real. No instruments were "in the box". After all of the edits were made and all of the tracks consolidated, I sent the files to my good friend, Tracey Freeman, to mix. A couple of weeks later, I rented an RV and drove to New Orleans to finish the mixing process with him at his home studio.

The album is available to order HERE.

TRACK LIST (CD/DIGITAL)

1. Alone With My Faith

2. Because He Lives

3. Be Not Afraid

4. Benevolent Man

5. Amazing Grace

6. The Old Rugged Cross

7. How Great Thou Art

8. God And My Gospel

9. Old Time Religion

10. All These Miracles

11. Look Who I Found

12. Thank You For Waiting (For Me)

13. Panis Angelicus

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