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Lauren Daigle on the red carpet for the 50th Annual GMA Dove Awards at Allen Arena, Lipscomb University on Oct. 15, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn.
Annette Holloway/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesLauren Daigle's Look Up Child logs its milestone 100th week at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart, extending its record for the most time atop the tally in the list's 41-year history.
On the survey dated Aug. 28, the release returns to the summit with 5,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 19, according to MRC Data.
Daigle's third full-length arrived at No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums chart dated Sept. 22, 2018, with 115,000 units. It concurrently started at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200, boasting the largest week for a Christian music album since the latter began ranking by equivalent album units in late 2014.
The set has earned 1.9 million equivalent album units to-date, including 800,000 in album sales. It has been bolstered by the multi-genre hit "You Say," which dominated the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Christian Songs list for a record 132 weeks. The song also led Christian Airplay for 17 frames and crossed over for a two-week stay atop Adult Contemporary.
As Look Up Child claims its 100th week at No. 1 on Top Christian Albums, Billboard caught up with Daigle for her reaction, as well as to find out what new music she has planned.
Lauren, first, a big congratulations. This album arrived before most of us knew what "pandemic" meant. As the album was released in what was essentially a different world, and as it's still No. 1, why do you think it has resonated?
The thing that is so special about music is that it really can be timeless. Throughout the record-making process for Look Up Child, I remember saying I just wanted it to be a timeless body of work. I want it to be something that even in 20 years, 30 years, people can still pull up and listen to.
I think that's the beauty of music as a whole. It can impact you in one way for a certain season or period of time, and then it can mean something completely different in seasons or years that follow.
It can be the same exact song, but it just hits you a different way due to whatever your circumstances are. I think that's what this record is doing for people. It's bringing them to a place of home that they remembered back in 2018, reflecting on good memories and good moments. They're finding a sense of home in the lyrics and in the sentiment of the record. I feel like when tragedy strikes or when chaos strikes, it's a beautiful thing to return home and to remind yourself that there is still good out there, and I think that's what people are doing with this record.
Did you have any idea at all that the album would be so successful, and what's the best part of that? Many listeners may have heard their first faith-based album because of your work.
This kind of successful, no. I guess it all depends on what your level of success is and what success means to you. If we're talking about charts, I would definitely say that this record surprised.
But when you're making a record, you hope that it would be something that's palatable, and tangible, and livable with people. To see these charts and to see the things that have come from the [commercial] success of this record is really beautiful because it means people are still holding onto it or finding it for the first time.
It's amazing to me,. It really blows my mind. I would say I had desired that it would be successful, but to see how effective it has become has been really beautiful. The best part of that is seeing how people have used the album and how it's walked with them through a really difficult time or beautiful season. That's the best part of this type of an accomplishment.
Are you writing or recording or planning a follow-up album?
Plans on the new record … yes, I've been writing and I'm in the process of seeing what the theme is going to be. Like, what are some elements that stand out from the songs I have written? But I still have a ways to go. The goal would be 2022 that a new record drops, but we shall see. I am writing, but we're about to go on tour so I'm taking a pause from writing and then I'll start back up.
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Supergrass are teasing an upcoming announcement with fans, according to a new post.
The British band, fronted by Gaz Coombes, shared a cryptic new post across their social media channels this morning (September 13), suggesting to fans that a new announcement is on the way.
Posted at 9am BST, the post simply shared artwork of the band’s logo in red, alongside next Monday’s date, September 16. In the caption, the band simply wrote: “Sign up now”, alongside a link to their website’s homepage.
Upon clicking the link, the page prompts fans to sign up for future updates, and asks them to input both their email address and the country they live in. Check out the post below.
While details on the announcement remain sparse, the post has already caught fans’ attention, with some speculating that the news could be around the upcoming 30th anniversary of their debut album, ‘I Should Coco’.
Released in May 1995, the release marked the record that first put the band on the map, and contained singles ‘Mansize Rooster’, ‘Caught By The Fuzz, ‘Lose It’ and ‘Lenny’. It also saw Coombes and Co. nominated at the 1995 Mercury Prize, and contained what would soon become their biggest track to date, the Ivor-Novello winning ‘Alright’.
At time of writing, the band haven’t shared any further indication as to whether the announcement is related to the huge upcoming milestone – whether it be an anniversary tour or reissue – nor whether it has anything to do with new music that could be on the way.
The band’s last studio album was ‘Diamond Hoo Ha’, which arrived in 2008. Since then, they have shared remastered versions of both their 1999 self-titled album and their 2003 record ‘Life On Other Planets’.
In other news around the band, last year it was reported that the band’s frontman joined Johnny Marr onstage last month to perform The Smiths‘ classic ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ at Lakefest 2023.
Before then, Coombes opened up about how “nervous” he was about reuniting Supergrass following the success of his solo albums.
Supergrass split up in 2010 but reunited for a series of live shows in 2019. They released a live album in 2020, Live On Other Planets, to celebrate their 25th anniversary and raise money for grassroots venues affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Having got into a flow and the last two albums having done so well, it seemed a bit odd, like a backward step,” he said. “But then I was confident that I could operate both things together and it seems that I did, because I was obviously writing this record mainly during the reunion so I feel like I made best use of both things.”
Coombes’ fourth solo album, ‘Turn The Car Around’, came out in January of last year.
