Charles Jenkins News

In addition to the major award winners, BMI also paid homage to the 20 Most Performed Gospel Songs of the Year (2020). This year’s talented group of songwriters includes 19 first-time Trailblazer Award winners including Zacardi Cortez, Cydel C. Young, Renee Spearman, Terrence “Pusha T” Thorton, Natalie Lauren Simms, & Allison Jeffrey LaValley.

Get the sensational collection WOW Gospel 2019, available now.  The latest hit installment from the longtime award-winning WOW Gospel series, the two-disc WOW Gospel 2019 album delivers a total of thirty tracks with today's biggest songs and treasured artists.  For over twenty years, the renowned compilation series has charted a course in discovering new voices mixed with fan favorites on each multi-track album, and been a top hit on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart.  WOW Gospel is a joint venture from RCA Inspiration, Motown Gospel, and Word Entertainment, and features pioneering legends, new inspirational voices, and superstar pairings.

Mayor Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events are thrilled to announce hip-hop star Desiigner (“Panda”) as the headliner for YAS! Fest, the youth arts showcase for the Year of Creative Youth presented by Allstate Insurance Company on Saturday, September 22 from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Opening for Desiigner's mainstage performance is 19-year-old breakout artist Ravyn Lenae, a graduate of Chicago High School for the Arts, fresh off her performance at Pitchfork Music Festival last month.

Best-selling recording artist, Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago, have dropped a hot new digital EP on the heels of their smash hit, “Grace,” which has spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard's Gospel Airplay chart. The four-song set, “Grace: The Remixes” (Inspired People/Empire), features a new solo  by Jenkins, two instrumentals and a fresh collaboration with celebrated vocalist, Kim Burrell. “It is a proven fact that to whom much is given much is required,” Burrell says. “What a joy it was to share studio time with Charles Jenkins and his incredible mind. This release of 'Grace' speaks volumes of what he's capable of. I'm proud to be a part of it.”

Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, filmmaker, and multi-platinum producer has sold over 15 million albums worldwide, with over 12 #1 hits reaching both gold and platinum status. A Christian Music Icon whose music reaches people from all walks of life. Chance the Rapper recently released a remake of Fred Hammond's song 'Are You Ready' and Jamie Foxx sang his song 'No Weapon' during his NAACP awards acceptance speech. He's worked with and admired by several well-known artists including Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dogg, 2017's 'The Voice' winner Chris Blue, 'American Idol Winners Reuben Studdard & Fantasia Barrino, Boyz II Men, and Jodeci to name a few.

Chart-topping singer, songwriter and producer, Charles Jenkins, and Fellowship Chicago, will debut the feel-good music video for their Top 2 radio smash, Grace, December 1st on multiple BET platforms.

Indie record stores around Australia are now announcing their plans for Record Store Day, the annual celebration of indie record stores.

Chart-topping, urban inspirational recording artist, Charles Jenkins (Awesome, War, Winning), has partnered with Kevin Liles Management. “Charles is a mogul of faith, music and leadership and which we are growing through KWL's proven approach to talent management where we provide a full service home for talent, capable of providing holistic thinking, infrastructure and expertise across all areas of their careers,” says Liles who guides the careers of artists such as D'Angelo, Trey Songz and K.Michelle. 

The new WOW GOSPEL 2017 collection debuts at #1 for the 18th year! The acclaimed series' 20th installment features a star-studded lineup of hit artists

Today, the award-winning hit series WOW GOSPEL releases the latest must-have Gospel hits, with the new double-disc and DVD collection WOW GOSPEL 2017

Soul Train Award nominated and Stellar Gospel Music Award winning recording artist Charles Jenkins' "Holiday Praise" yuletide musical program will air  Sunday, December 25 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) with a repeat broadcast at 9:00 a.m. (ET) on Bounce TV, the fastest-growing African-American network on television. Tease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d_n7B2hXdA&feature=youtu.be

Growing up, author William Abrams was fascinated by two things-disasters and bridges. He found the perfect subject for his first novel in Scotland's Tay Bridge, a two-mile railroad viaduct that collapsed while carrying a crowded passenger train in 1879. At the time, the Tay was the longest bridge in the world. Its failure only 14 months after completion was front-page news around the world and, prior to the sinking of the Titanic, the most infamous technological disaster in British History.

Chart-topping recording artist Charles Jenkins - who is best known for his Billboard Magazine No. 1 hits "War" and "Awesome" - has ventured out into new musical waters with his hypnotically catchy new beat "Winning." The uplifting anthem of hope and determination was serviced to Urban Adult Contemporary radio earlier this week and has already earned status as the second most added song in the UAC genre with ten new station adds on the Mediabase chart and seven new adds on the Billboard chart.

Singer, writer, producer and Grammy nominated artist, Travis Greene is actively sharing his ministry nationwide and promoting his second single, "Made A Way" from his first major label debut, THE HILL on RCA Inspiration. 

On Friday, February 5, 2016, the 17th Annual NFL Sanctioned Super Bowl Gospel Celebration (SBGC) will kick-off Super Bowl 50 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA.

A.D.: The Bible Continues, the uplifting spiritual journey through the later chapters of biblical history from executive producers Roma Downey (The Bible) and Mark Burnett (The Voice, The Bible), to Blu-ray and DVD today, November 3.

A.D.: The Bible Continues, the uplifting spiritual journey through the later chapters of biblical history from executive producers Roma Downey (The Bible) and Mark Burnett (The Voice, The Bible), to Blu-ray and DVD November 3.

GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter and Inspired People recording artist Pastor Charles Jenkins and his electrifying choir Fellowship Chicago have earned their second #1 on Billboard Magazine's Gospel Albums sales chart. This one is for the newly released project 'Any Given Sunday' that features the rousing New Orleans BrassBand-flavored Top 5* radio smash '#War.' The ensemble's debut set 'The Best of Both Worlds' spent three weeks at #1on the same chart in the summer of 2012.

Hosting a Billboard #1 Gospel Hits album celebration in Chicago, eOne Music welcomed a packed crowd of fans and tastemakers to Angels & Kings at the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago on Thursday February 26th, where the night included a meet and greet with gospel artist, and Chicago pastor Charles Jenkins, whose hit song “Awesome” with Fellowship Chicago, is among the #1 hits featured on the compilation.