Casting Crowns singing 'til the whole world hears

|PIC1|In an unprecedented six-year span, with 4.5 million career album sales, Casting Crowns readies for the November 17 release of its fourth studio album, titled Until The Whole World Hears.

The five-time Dove Award-winning "Group of the Year" remains focused on discipleship through music with its new 11-song collection, featuring boldly-honest lyrics from lead singer/songwriter Mark Hall, giving listeners a fresh, relevant perspective on loving God and loving people.

With Mark's 18 years in youth ministry, the band's message remains rooted in the student services he has led on a weekly basis since 2001, at Eagles Landing Baptist church near Atlanta.

Mark says, "The songs start out as our messages to the 400 teens and families we see each week at Eagles Landing. Our goal is to live our lives telling others about Jesus - until the whole world hears - those simple words are a challenge to be intentional with the way we live our lives."

This week, the title track and first single jumps to No 1 on Billboard's AC-Indicator radio chart marking a ninth career chart-topping song for Casting Crowns. The hit song also moves up to No 2 on Billboard's National Christian Audience chart gaining 8.1 million weekly impressions.

Scott Smith, Assistant Programme Director for the national KLove Network, states, "I am so glad we finally have a new Casting Crowns song to play! It's smokin' and the message challenges us as believers to fulfil the Great Commission until the whole world hears!"

Millions of fans can now hear full-song previews exclusively on the band's newly created fan-centric web site, www.crownsfans.com.

A new track releases each Tuesday, counting down to the full 11-song album stream launching exclusively November 9 to 16, at Yahoo! Music, tallying over 9 million daily impressions. Yahoo! Music will be the first place to hear the entire record prior to street date.

Casting Crowns is currently headlining the 41-US city "Until The Whole World Hears Tour" with special guest Matt Redman.

Until The Whole World Hears will follow the platinum-selling band's historical debut at No 2 on The Billboard 200 chart with 130,000 first-week copies sold of its third album, The Altar and The Door.