Brandon Lake scores his second No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart as his new set, King of Hearts, launches atop the listing dated June 28.
The album concurrently arrives on the all-genre Billboard 200 at No. 7, granting the singer-songwriter his first high 10. Plus, it opens as his first No. 1 on Prime Rock & Different Albums and Prime Rock Albums.
The 16-song set, launched June 13, earned 37,000 equal album items, with 20,000 in album gross sales, in the US by June 19, based on Luminate. Each sums are weekly bests for Lake, who co-authored every track on the LP.
The album’s “That’s Who I Reward” hit No. 1 on Sizzling Christian Songs final October, dominating for 9 frames. (It ranks at No. 4 on the past events rating.) The set’s present single, “Onerous Fought Hallelujah,” tops the multimetric listing for a twenty third week, having change into Lake’s sixth No. 1 – and first to debut on the summit – in November.
The latter’s model at present being promoted to nation radio options Jelly Roll and ranks at No. 15 on Sizzling Nation Songs. “Onerous Fought Hallelujah” grew to become Lake’s first hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 40 in Could, in addition to his first high 10 on Sizzling Rock Songs (No. 6 peak) and Sizzling Rock & Different Songs (No. 8).
King of Hearts is Lake’s first studio album since 2023’s Coat of Many Colours, which grew to become his first chief when it entered at No. 1 with 9,000 items that November. In between, Lake, 35, from Charleston, S.C., launched Tear Off the Roof (Stay From the Holy Metropolis) final July. The set opened at its No. 18 excessive on Prime Christian Albums.
Previous to his two leaders, Lake hit the Prime Christian Albums high 10 with Home of Miracles, which rose to No. 6 in June 2023 after it debuted in September 2020.
Carvin Winans Leads Gospel Airplay
Carvin Winans, of legendary sibling gospel act the Winans, earns his first solo No. 1 on Gospel Airplay along with his preliminary entry, “God Nonetheless Engaged on Me.” It ascends a spot with a 17% enhance in performs.
Winans co-wrote the one with spouse Chérie Winans, Carlos Battey and Gregg Pagani. The latter two co-produced it. The track is from Winans’ album Cool Gospel, due June 27.
“We began out this mission making an attempt to make one thing particular and, by the grace of God, we have been in a position to try this,” Winans tells Billboard. “We have been capable of carry this message of non secular transformation to the world in an enormous method. Because of everybody who made my first solo No. 1 a actuality.”
Winans, from Detroit, is likely one of the founding members of the Winans, alongside along with his brothers Marvin, Michael and Ronald. They’re amongst 10 siblings born to Delores and David, often known as “Mother” and “Pop” Winans.
The Winans have banked 4 No. 1s on Prime Gospel Albums: Let My Folks Go, in 1986; Choices (1987); Return (1990); and We Received Subsequent (1999).