{"id":2344,"date":"2009-10-06T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2009-10-06T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:47:02","slug":"baylor-alums-top-list-of-best-selling-christian-albums-on-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/10\/baylor-alums-top-list-of-best-selling-christian-albums-on-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor alums top list of best-selling Christian albums on iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"itunes-oct09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/itunes-oct09.jpg\" alt=\"iTunes top 10 Christian &amp; Gospel albums\" width=\"199\" height=\"421\" \/>We&#8217;ve seen the iTunes folks highlight other Baylor grads in the past like <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2008\/02\/alumni-band-featured-on-itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Road<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2009\/01\/alumnas-work-chosen-as-itunes-single-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erin McCarley<\/a>. Now this week, folks visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewGrouping?id=25\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes Christian &amp; Gospel page<\/a> found offerings from two Baylor alumni groups among the top three best-selling albums nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Most folks know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcrowderband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Crowder Band<\/a> hails from Baylor\/Waco, as they still lead worship at University Baptist Church when not on the road. Their recent release, <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=329702111&amp;s=143441\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Church Music<\/em><\/a>, holds down the top spot (and is even spotlighted with an ad in the top center of the page). But at No. 3 sits another Baylor-related group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duttonband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dutton<\/a>, with their CD <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?id=331821257&amp;s=143441\" target=\"_blank\"><em>All Things Fade<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lead vocalist Logan Walter (BA &#8217;07), drummer Nathan Jennings (BBA &#8217;03) and guitarists Brian Patterson (BA &#8217;08) and Shane Wilson (BBA &#8217;04) are all Baylor alums. The band began as the fill-in group at UBC when the David Crowder Band was on the road; they later moved to The Heights Baptist Church in Richardson, Texas, where they lead worship now (when not on the road themselves).<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Dutton!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen the iTunes folks highlight other Baylor grads in the past like Addison Road and Erin McCarley. Now this week, folks visiting the iTunes Christian &amp; Gospel page found offerings from two Baylor alumni groups among the top three best-selling albums nationwide. Most folks know that the David Crowder Band hails from Baylor\/Waco, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}