WorshipRises EP release – what a day!

Posted by Chris From Canada in worship on Jul 14th, 2010 | one response

Wow. Incredible. How encouraging to know that people all over Canada & the US decided to support this whole WorshipRises (facebook|twitter) movement by spending four bucks on the EP that we released yesterday on iTunes, Amazon and a bunch of other digital platforms.

At the end of the day, the EP was sitting at #2 on the Canadian Inspirational chart and had peaked at #20 on the full iTunes Canada chart. We had an incredible response from our friends online who told us how much they are loving the songs.

Those nasty Newsboys fellows. Releasing two albums on the same day!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! When we launched this thing a year ago (our first WorshipRises songwriting day was on May 25, 2009) we had no idea that we would be here a little over a year later. Thanks for your encouragement and your support. We are excited about where things are going and excited to know that we have lots of cheerleaders

A few things to keep in mind now that the songs are out there -

Chord charts and lead sheets are available right now from our friends at PraiseCharts. Each of these four songs are already being sung in churches all over Canada & the US so please join the club and let us know how your church responds.
We are working on creating a “resource edition” of the EP that would come with chord charts, lead sheets, click tracks and maybe some video content. More news on that soon.
We really do live in a whole new world. We saw the success of yesterday happen despite the fact that we spent a grand total of ZERO dollars on marketing. Not one facebook ad, not one sponsored blog post, not one magazine placement. Nothing. Like I posted on our facebook page this morning – Solid vision + Solid product + Solid relationships = Solid results. Artists – be encouraged! People want to support you and the work you are doing and the avenues to allow them to do that are wide open. Go for it!