'The World's Favourite Worship Songs' continues to sell

THE TV advertised compilation 'The World's Favourite Worship Songs' has enjoyed its seventh consecutive week at number one on the UK's Official Christian & Gospel Albums Chart. The album, which is available in supermarkets such as Tesco and Sainsbury's, has been written about in The Independent newspaper. Rhodri Marsden, who describes himself as "a shoulder-shrugging atheist," wrote in his article headed Why don't Christian Contemporary Music acts ever make it into the mainstream?, "Perhaps the collected musical output of Sonicflood, Matt Redman, Rend Collective and Tim Hughes simply isn't pitched at me. But a cursory online search reveals that these artists are huge; they tour extensively, release successful albums and have thousands of fans and followers on social media. Why have they never drifted into my line of sight?" In the same article worship man Stuart Townend spoke about Rend Collective. "They were a band making great music, but because they were identified as Christians, Radio 1 said, 'Well, we're not going to play these songs because they're not cool'."