Nashville, TN, February 11, 2015—Affirming their position as an industry leader and fan favorite, Big Daddy Weave scores an astounding fourth No. 1 single from their 2012 project, Love Come to Life. “Overwhelmed,” which landed the top spot on AC Monitored this week, shares rank with their career best-selling track, “Redeemed,” K-LOVE Fan Awards Song of the Year (2014) nominee “The Only Name (Yours Will Be)” and the title track from what has become their most successful project to date.
The official No. 1 certification also follows the recent nomination of “Overwhelmed” for the 2015 K-LOVE Worship Song of the Year.
Currently, the band, who was the second most-played artist at AC radio in 2014, is readying the Spring leg of their overwhelmingly successful Beautiful Offerings tour. With a new line-up–Jason Gray, Citizen Way, Lauren Daigle–the tour, which saw record attendance during its inaugural run, kicks off February 12 and runs through Mid-May, during which time the band will work on their first studio release since 2012, slated for Fall 2015.
Click here for full Beautiful Offerings tour listing and ticket information.
K-LOVE Fan Awards voting is open May 1-May 30. More information can be found here.
Beautiful Offerings Tour
About Big Daddy Weave:
Big Daddy Weave enters 2015 as an indisputable Christian music mainstay, appearing as the second most played artist on Christian radio, a leader in concert touring and the recipient of multiple industry awards. Their most recent and career best-selling album, Love Come to Life, is celebrating its fourth consecutive No. 1 single, “Overwhelmed,” which is nominated for Worship Song of the Year at the 2015 K-LOVE Fan Awards. In March 2014, the No. 1 single, “The Only Name (Yours Will Be)” was nominated for K-LOVE Fan Awards’ Song of the Year, a title which went to their No. 1 single and career best-selling track, “Redeemed” at the first annual K-LOVE Fan Awards in 2013. The song spent 11 weeks at No. 1, while receiving nominations for Christian Song of the Year at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards and Song of the Year at the 2013 Dove Awards. Spring 2015 finds the band launching the second leg of their tremendously successful Beautiful Offerings Tour, which saw multiple sell-outs around the country during its inaugural run. The band, comprised of Mike Weaver, Jay Weaver, Jeremy Redmon, Joe Shirk and Brian Beihl, formed when the original members were attending the University of Mobile. In 2002, Big Daddy Weave stepped into the spotlight with the release of its second album, One and Only, which debuted in SoundScan’s Christian Top 5 and earned them a Dove Award nomination for “New Artist of the Year.” In 2010, Big Daddy Weave took home the Dove Award for “Christmas Album of the Year” for its seventh album, Christ Is Come. They have also been honored at ASCAP’s Christian Music Awards. More information can be found online at www.bigdaddyweave.com.
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