Chris Tomlin Named Artist of the Year for 2nd Consecutive Year at Dove Awards !

Chris Tomlin sings “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone” during the 38th Annual GMA Dove Awards. Photo courtesy of Gospel Music Association and Wire Image.

In a week filled with industry accolades, Tomlin also was named ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year with “Made To Worship” and “How Great Is Our God” receiving Most Performed Songs of 2006 honors.

How Great Is Our God” has further been referenced by Time Magazine in an article that named Tomlin as perhaps “the most often sung artist anywhere.” Reinforcing that title, the song has now become Tomlin’s first No. 1 on the CCLI Top 25. The award winning song moved to No. 1 after becoming one of the fasting rising modern day hymns in CCLI chart history. In all, Tomlin has 17 Top 500 CCLI songs that are sung by millions around the world every week as people gather to worship. He has also penned five of the top 25 songs on the chart, with “Holy Is The Lord” and “Forever” landing in the top 10. CCLI serves over 150,000 churches in the US alone (www.ccli.com).

As Tomlin’s songs are being sung in the church, they also continue to receive widespread radio airplay. In all, Tomlin currently claims 5 of the top 40 hits on the R&R AC Monitored Christian radio chart, including the current single from See The Morning, “How Can I Keep From Singing” (#4), and the former No. 1 songs, "Made To Worship" (#19), "How Great Is Our God" (#22), "Holy Is The Lord" (#23) and "Indescribable" (#31). The latter three songs from the RIAA Certified Gold album, Arriving, have remained on the illusive play list for an average of nearly two years!

Taking his songs to the road, Tomlin’s winter/spring How Great Is Our God Tour, featuring Passion visionary leader and author, Louie Giglio, and sixstepsrecords/ Sparrow Records’ Matt Redman, logged 20 sold out events at venues such as the Dodge Theatre (Phoenix), Nokia Theatre (Dallas), Patriot Center (Fairfax, VA) and Continental Airlines Arena (East Rutherford, NJ) before wrapping up March 23.