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The Christian Music Discovery podcast - New Christian Releases, Hidden Gems and Tomorrow's Christian Hits - October 19th, 2020


We have released a new episode of our Christian Music Discovery podcast, where we predict tomorrow's Christian Hits and share newly released musical gems by lesser-known artists.

During each episode, we try to predict tomorrow's Christian Hits and share newly released musical gems by lesser-known artists (artists that have not (yet) experienced a major breakthrough). 

For our predictions, we look at Christian music released last Friday and talk about how these songs developed in the first 36 hours since their release. We highlight songs that we believe will be the high performers during the coming week. A week later, we release the Top 25 chart of Christian songs released in the past week (200 hours) and look back at our previous predictions. During these episodes, we also feature songs by (less known) artists that we believe deserve more "love". 

For this podcast, we have created a Top 25 chart with the highest performing releases of the past week (200 hours) - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gA5SZLPEKKTvilc2AhLY7. This chart has the songs that people are talking about right now on radio, TV, magazines, etc.. 

Follow our podcast and our Top 25 chart for recent releases, and you will know which new Christian songs are tomorrow's hits.

A playlist with all of the Christian Contemporary Music released last Friday (that we know about) can be found on: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ud3nS0wKUATIYBECieROH
 
All of the music in this episode can be found on a new Spotify playlist that we created for this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4GKUaNr0MVSLb38mFUJc1i
This episode can be heard on a large number of podcast players, such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Anchor.fm, and more.

Visit our Podcast page for a link to your favorite podcast player (https://www.christiandance.eu/podcast), or go to: https://anchor.fm/christiandance

Enjoy the episode and we trust that you too will discover new artists/music.

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