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CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC RINGTONES
We keep track of the Top Christian
Contemporary and Gospel Music Ringtones you love and the most popular
tones downloaded
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TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
DECEMBER 12, 2009
City On Our Knees ringtone - tobyMac City On Your Knees
Until The Whole World Hears ringtone - Casting Crowns Until The Whole World Hears
Give This Christmas Away ringtone - Matthew West Featuring Amy Grant
What Faith Can Do ringtone - Kutless It Is Well
The Words I Would Say ringtone - Sidewalk Prophets These Simple Truths
Forgiven ringtone - Sanctus Real Forgiven
How He Loves ringtone - David Crowder Band Church Music
He Is ringtone - Mark Schultz Come Alive
Hold My Heart ringtone - Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath
On And On ringtone - Chasen On And On
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
City On Our Knees ringtone - tobyMac City on Your Knees
Until The Whole World Hears ringtone - Casting Crowns Until the Whole World Hears
Revelation Song ringtone - Phillips, Craig & Dean Fearless
Born Again ringtone - Third Day Featuring Lacey Mosley Revelation
Lead Me To The Cross ringtone - Chris And Conrad Chris and Conrad
The Words I Would Say ringtone - Sidewalk Prophets These Simple Truths
More Beautiful You ringtone - Jonny Diaz More Beautiful You
Hold My Heart ringtone - Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath
The Motions ringtone - Matthew West Something to Say
What Faith Can Do ringtone - Kutless It Is Well
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 19, 2007
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ringtone - Chris Tomlin
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
God With Us ringtone - MercyMe
How You Live (Turn Up The Music) ringtone - Point of Grace
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
In Better Hands ringtone - Natalie Grant
In Wonder ringtone - Newsboys
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Song Of Hope ringtone - Robbie Seay Band
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 12, 2007
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ringtone - Chris Tomlin
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
God With Us ringtone - MercyMe
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
In Better Hands ringtone - Natalie Grant
In Wonder ringtone - Newsboys
Love The Lord ringtone - Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ringtone - Chris Tomlin
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
God With Us ringtone – MercyMe
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
In Better Hands ringtone – Natalie Grant
Love The Lord ringtone - Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
OCTOBER 29, 2007
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ringtone - Chris Tomlin
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone - Aaron Shust
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Love The Lord ringtone - Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
OCTOBER 22, 2007
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ringtone - Chris Tomlin
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone - Aaron Shust
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Love The Lord ringtone - Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
OCTOBER 15, 2007
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ringtone - Chris Tomlin
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone - Aaron Shust
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Love The Lord ringtone - Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
OCTOBER 8, 2007
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Everything Glorious ringtone - David Crowder Band
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone - Aaron Shust
Give You Glory ringtone - Jeremy Camp
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Love The Lord ringtone - Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
OCTOBER 1, 2007
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Every Time I Breathe ringtone - Big Daddy Weave
Everything Glorious ringtone – David Crowder Band
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone – Aaron Shust
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Love The Lord ringtone – Lincoln Brewster
Miracle Of The Moment ringtone - Steven Curtis Chapman
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Every Time I Breathe ringtone - Big Daddy Weave
Everything Glorious ringtone – David Crowder Band
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone – Aaron Shust
Give You Glory ringtone - Jeremy Camp
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Love The Lord ringtone – Lincoln Brewster
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
TOP 10
CHRISTIAN & GOSPEL MUSIC TONES
FOR
THE WEEK OF
SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
Bring The Rain ringtone - MercyMe
East To West ringtone - Casting Crowns
Every Time I Breathe ringtone - Big Daddy Weave
Give Me Words To Speak ringtone - Aaron Shust
Give You Glory ringtone - Jeremy Camp
I'm For You ringtone - tobyMac
I'm Not Who I Was ringtone - Brandon Heath
Something Beautiful ringtone - Newsboys
Undo ringtone - Rush Of Fools
You ringtone - Britt Nicole
ABOUT CHRISTIAN MUSIC
Christian Music (or its religious neutral term Inspirational
music) is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief
regarding the Christian life, as well as to give a Christian
alternatives to main stream secular music. While the term "Christian Music" tends now to be appropriated by
20th and 21st century popular and rock musicians, Christian music can
be broken into a number of categories: Liturgical Music, Masses, Anthems, Motets, sequences, psalmody, antiphons, Hymns, Contemporary Christian music, Gospel music, and Christian alternative rock.
Additional popular categories are Gospel music, Christian
rap and Southern Gospel music.
Contemporary
Christian Music
Contemporary
Christian Music or often "Christian Contemporary,"
would be the closest sounding style to pop or Top 40 music. It is by
far the greatest selling of all the categories of Christian Music. It
consists of a variety of styles that focus on mostly spiritual topics,
such as prayer and praise (including artist like Chris
Tomlin, MercyMe, Casting Crowns, Pablo Perez Mark
Schultz and Rebecca St. James.)
Christian alternative
rock encompasses a variety of artists and styles. In recent years, it
has started to be accepted into secular circles including bands like Mae, Relient
K, Switchfoot, Anberlin, Jeremy Camp, Factor
seven, mewithoutyou and POD. Many
alternative Christian rock bands focus on Christian beliefs and the
struggles that they have encountered, often leading to an interesting
insight into Christian beliefs. Gospel Music is divided into two types.
Urban Gospel would be similar to pop and r&b with artists like Kirk
Franklin, Smokie Norful and Yolanda
Adams. Traditional Gospel music features more of a choir sound.
Southern Gospel has a country sound and uses gospel quartets.
Interestingly, the only 4 grammy awards Elvis won were for his Southern
Gospel albums. There is record of the earliest music of the Christian
church in a few New Testament books of what are probably hymns. Some
of these fragments are still sung as hymns today in the Orthodox
Church, including "Awake, awake O sleeper" on the occasion of someone's baptism.
United States and
Canada
The most recent common
form of Christian music in the United States and Canada is Contemporary
Christian music, or CCM. This draws most of its influence from secular music of the late 20th century and is the most popular kind of
Christian music in the Western world. Although there are many Christian
music acts in the mainstream music industry, the term CCM usually
refers specifically to artists within the Christian music industry that are
played on Christian radio. There is a "Christian
music" counterpart to nearly every popular musical style. Besides Contemporary Christian music,
Black Gospel, Southern Gospel, and Christian country music are also
popular in the US.
Brazilian
Christian music
While Brazilian
Protestantism came to be dominated by CCM-influenced pop music, there
was a period from the 1970s to the early 1990s when there was a
creative movement adapting various Brazilian styles, mainly MPB, to religious meanings and
even congregational singing.
While very little is
left of this movement, known simply as 'Música
Evangélica' to contrast with the pop, commercialised, CCM-like
'Música Gospel', there are still some groups and persons
continuing the creative tradition, such as Guilherme Kerr. Furthermore, there are a
few individuals creating Brazilian Christian music out of any specific
movement or school, the most famous one being Elomar Figueira de Mello, known
for his erudite, regionalist music escaping current nihilism common in Contemporary music.
ABOUT GOSPEL MUSIC
Gospel Music is a musical genre
characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony)
referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.
Subgenres include contemporary gospel, urban contemporary gospel (sometimes referred to as "black gospel"), and modern Gospel music (now
more commonly known as praise and worship or Contemporary Christian
music). Most forms of gospel music use piano and/or Hammond organ,
drums, bass guitar and, increasingly, electric guitar.
History of Gospel
Music
Gospel music is believed to have first come out of African-American churches in the first
quarter of the twentieth century or more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious
music composed and sung by predominately white Southern Gospel artists. The sharp
division between black and white America, particularly black and white
churches, kept the two apart. While those divisions have lessened
slightly in the past fifty years, the two traditions are still
distinct. In both traditions, some performers, such as Mahalia Jackson have limited themselves to
appearing in religious contexts only, while others, such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Golden Gate Quartet and Clara
Ward, have performed gospel music in secular settings, even night
clubs. Many performers, such as The Jordanaires, The Blackwood Brothers, Al Green,
and Solomon Burke have performed both secular
and religious music. It is common for such performers to include gospel
songs in otherwise secular performances, although the opposite almost
never happens.
Gospel singer, songwriter, guitarist Sister Rosetta
Tharpe was the first great star of Gospel music, surfacing on the pop
music charts in 1938. She remained popular through the 1940s,
continuing to hit the charts and drawing tens of thousands of fans to
see her perform live in venues across the United States. She lost the
support of some of her church fans, now and then, when she performed in
secular venues as well, as when she recorded songs not recognized as
'Christian'. The fans she lost were somewhat forgiving, as she remained
true to her faith, for the most part, throughout her recording career
which spanned the remainder of her life.
Although predominantly an American phenomenon, gospel
music has spread throughout the world including to Australia with
choirs such as The Elementals and Jonah & The Whalers and festivals
such as the Australian Gospel Music
Festival. Norway is home to the popular Ansgar Gospel Choir, the only true
Norwegian Gospel choir. Gospel is also popular in the province of
Quebec, Canada, where important gospel choirs such as Montreal Jubilation Gospel
Choir and Québec Celebration
Gospel Choir are famous.
Gospel Music Genres
Urban Contemporary gospel
The music popularized by urban contemporary gospel
pioneers had its roots mostly in spirituals sung by southern slaves
during the 18th and 19th century but also in the freewheeling forms of
religious devotion of 'Sanctified' or 'Holiness' churches, who
encouraged individual church members to 'testify', speaking or singing
spontaneously about their faith and experience, sometimes while dancing
in celebration. In the 1920s Sanctified artists, such as Arizona
Dranes, many of whom were also traveling preachers, started making
records in a style that melded traditional religious themes with
barrelhouse, blues and boogie-woogie techniques and brought jazz
instruments, such as drums and horns, into the church.
Christian Country Music
Christian country music, sometimes
referred to as Country gospel music, is a subgenre of gospel music with
a country flair, is also known as Inspirational Country.
Southern Gospel Music
Southern gospel or Country and shape
note music publishing companies such as the A. J. Showalter Company
(1879),
the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company and the Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing
Company.
Early gospel artists such as The Speer Family, The Blackwood Family (The Blackwood Brothers), The Lefevre Trio and The Carter Family achieved wide
popularity through their recordings and radio performances in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Others such as Homer Rodeheaver, George Beverly Shea, Cliff
Barrows or the Cathedral Quartet, became well-known
through their association with popular evangelists such as Billy Sunday, Rex
Humbard and Billy Graham.
Progressive Southern Gospel Music
Progressive Southern Gospel is
an American music genre that has grown out of Southern Gospel over the
past couple of decades.
Bluegrass Gospel
Bluegrass gospel music is rooted in American mountain
music.
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