David Crowder Band is MSN’s Artist of the Year 2006

The band’s A Collision was recognized last year by the editors of iTunes as one of the Top 100 Albums of 2005. The editors simultaneously picked the recording as their No. 1 favorite of 2005 in the inspirational category. The band also landed three top 10 musictones at www.midiringtones.com, including the No. 1 position! Other artists on the chart included rappers T.I., Dem Franchize Boyz and others. During CMCentral’s 2nd Annual Music Awards ceremony last year, David Crowder Band was named both Artist and Worship Artist of the Year and A Collision was named both Album and Worship Album of the Year.

Not afraid to push musical boundaries, David Crowder Band released the widely acclaimed B Collision: The Eschatology of Bluegrasslast summer. The album follows the path of A Collision, which has been widely regarded as one of the best albums of 2005, receiving five-star reviews and comparisons togroundbreaking albums of the past and artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams. Lauded by Billboard, Washington Post, Knight-Ridder, Dallas Morning News, Relevant, CCM, etc., A Collision also debuted at No. 39 on the Billboard Top 200, became an iTunes No. 1 hit and launched the top 10 R&R hit singles, “Wholly Yours,” “Here Is Our King” and the current single ascending the charts, “Foreverandever, Etc.” The album further garnered GMA Music Award honors for Best Rock/Contemporary Album and Best Rock/Contemporary Song (“Here is Our King”).

Capturing the attention of such significant media as the New York Times, CNN, FOX News and more, David Crowder Band was the first Christian artist to foster a partnership with M-Audio/Propellerhead’s Reason software and Crowder is the namesake behind premiere guitar maker Tom Anderson Guitarworks’s Crowdster Acoustic and the DCB-inspired guitar, The Atom. An engaging headliner, David Crowder Band has also toured with Michael W. Smith, MercyMe and Third Day, as well as continues to be a featured band at the enormously popular collegiate Passion gatherings. The band also makes it a point to get back to the church they helped found, University Baptist Church, on most Sundays.