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Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle was the number one song on
On Monday, June 2nd, Bob sang "Butterfly Kisses" on NBC's Tonight Show!
May 26th CCM Update story on the appeal of Bob's album
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Bob "Butterfly Kisses" Carlisle
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From: YWDX42D@prodigy.com (MR BARRY L SMADES)
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997
Subject: Christian Music: News & Notes 5-28
NEWS & NOTES - May 28, 1997
"KISSES" FLY - Butterflies fly and "Butterfly
Kisses" have been flying off store shelves around
the country.
Retailers, both Christian and mainstream, saw
99,944 units move through their registers and the
end result is that "Shades of Grace," Bob Carlisle's
album which features the nation's No. 1 mainstream
single, has been certified gold. The project started
at No. 115 on "The Billboard 200" chart two weeks
ago, jumped to No. 95 last week and climbed to No.
2 (right behind the Spice Girls' No. 1 album called
Spice) on the sales chart.
The country world, according to this week's The
CCM Update, has jumped on the bandwagon with
two country covers from the Raybon Brothers
(featuring Marty Raybon, former Shenandoah lead
singer who did a Christian solo album two years
ago) and Jeff Carson. Carlisle had done a country
remix to promote to country stations but MCA
(with Raybons) and Curb (with Carson) tried to
beat Carlisle's only remix. Currently Bob is
featured on 25 of the 200 country markets.
Not to be one sitting off the bandwagon, Sparrow
Records, Carlisle's former label, is releasing a
16-song disc from the two albums Carlisle did for
them before moving on to Diadem where he struck
gold with Shades of Grace.
Shades of Grace also did what many thought
would be hard to do by knocking Kirk Franklin &
The Family's "Whatcha Lookin' 4" off the top spot
in mainstream sales. Franklin's sophomore project
has been pegged at No. 1 for months.
Barry Smades
Prodigy Christian Music Newsrep
Photos by Diana Morris@prodigy.net
Billboard's Adult Contemporary (mainstream music) charts!
