Hillsong UNITED Bound for Second Billboard 200 Top 10 Entry with "Empires"

Hillsong UNITED has set another milestone. Their brand new album "Empires" is bound for top 10 on Billboard 200's chart next week aiing to lodge in at #10. "Empires," which is released via Hillsong/Sparrow/Capitol Christian Music Group is predicted to shift around 50,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 1.
Their previous album "Zion" which was released in 2013 debut at #5 in 2013 on Billboard's 200. The single off "Zion," "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)" is currently still stationed at #2 on Billboard's Christian Songs after it has been sent to radio over a year ago. "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)," spent 45 consecutive weeks atop the Hot Christian Songs chart and reached No. 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 -- the first Christian Songs No. 1 to crack the tally.
"Jesus is the ultimate crossover guy -- literally," says UNITED's leader Joe Houston. "Jesus came," continues Houston, "and said, 'This whole God thing? It's not just for your genre, it's cross-genre.' Our message is for everybody."
UNITED is based off Hillsong Church which is based in Sydney but has 100,000 members in branches across 11 countries. The church band arguably is the most important act in Christian music today. The attractive 11-member collective, fronted by Lentz's co-pastor Joel Houston.
"People connect to the music and the message," explains Houston, 36, in an interview the day before the show. "We take away a lot of the things that people think of when they think about church, and instead try to present something that's as real and honest as possible."
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