Industry News

The official Stellar Awards second & final ballot is now available for online public voting at www.thestellarawards.com until Monday, October 17th. Your vote on the final second round will determine the four finalists for each of the Stellar Awards categories. ...

Last week, relative newcomer Earnest Pugh knocked gospel legend Kirk Franklin out of the #1 slot on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart. Pugh’s dramatic song “I Need Your Glory” has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last four months and ...

Hurricane Irene not only devastated buildings and lives along the East Coast last week, but partially interfered with the voting process of the nationally televised singing competition “Sunday Best.” The final episode was expected to run on BET last night, ...

Three time Grammy award winning Gospel powerhouse, Dorinda Clark-Cole, of the Clark Sisters, and Grammy nominated, Stellar award winning “preacher called by God to sing”, Marvin Sapp, are the hosts for this years’ 27th Annual Stellar Awards Show. The 27th ...

Atlanta, GA-based songwriter Darius Paulk, 27, is enjoying the biggest success of his young career with the song, “Nobody Greater.” Recorded by EMI Gospel recording artist, Vashawn Mitchell, the song hit the #1 spot on Billboard magazine’s Hot Gospel Songs ...

Mathew Knowles’ Music World Gospel, an imprint label of Music World Music, today signed an exclusive International Distribution Agreement with Houston-based gospel recording artist James Fortune and Fiya World, LLC for recordings distributed worldwide, excluding North America. This Agreement covers ...

Singer/songwriter/producer/musician, Travis Malloy, has filed a lawsuit against Darius Paulk, alleging that the songwriter failed to give him proper co-writing credits causing Travis Malloy not to be able to collect royalties and benefit from the success of EMI Gospel recording ...

By: Sheilah Belle — Plans for Sunday’s dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall have been postpone until September or October due to Hurricane Irene which is expected to hit the D.C. area by late ...

Due to the threat of severe weather in the Philadelphia area and the east coast, I feel it is necessary to postpone the Philadelphia auditions for the Allstate Gospel Superfest Battle of the Bands Competition until a future date in September. The new date will be ...

Khalif M. Townes, a leading entrepreneur in the Faith-Based Community and Gospel Music Industry, was honored with a Crystal Mic Media Award for his uGospel eBlast (formerly known as Urban Roundup eBlast) services. He received the award at this year’s ...