{"id":458,"date":"2019-12-27T22:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=458"},"modified":"2019-12-27T22:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T21:51:34","slug":"kanye-west-releases-new-jesus-is-born-album-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Releases New Jesus Is Born Album on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The album is made up of 19 tracks including one called \u201cRevelations 19:1<\/a>\u201d and another called \u201cFather Stretch.\u201d I-Tunes has marked both of these songs along with two others \u2013 \u201cBack to Life\u201d and \u201cSouls Anchored\u201d \u2013 as popular tracks on the newly released record. West is the executive producer of the Eighty-four minutes long album. The song list includes \u201cCount Your Blessings,\u201d “Satan We’re Gonna Tear Your Kingdom Down,” “Balm in Gilead,” \u201cSweet Grace,\u201d \u201cFollow Me \u2014 Faith,\u201d and “That’s How the Lord Works” among others.<\/p>\n

The Grammy winner began hosting large gatherings known as Sunday Services, with its fiery Sunday Service Choir and gospel sermons, in January. As\u00a0Christian Headlines reported<\/a>\u00a0last month, West appeared at Joel Osteen\u2019s mega congregation, Lakewood Church, where his Sunday Service Choir performed. West then brought his\u00a0gospel choir to a local jail<\/a>\u00a0where they performed for inmates. In April, they played at the prominent Southern California music festival,\u00a0Coachella<\/a>\u00a0and in November, 1,000 people\u00a0accepted Christ<\/a>\u00a0during a Sunday Service in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. \"\"<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0press release shared on PJ Media<\/a>, the Sunday Service was described as “an idea we had to open up our hearts to make music that we felt was as pure and as positive as possible and just do it for an hour every Sunday, and have something where people can just come together and feel good with their families. The Service features gospel-inspired remixes of classic songs of different genres, and also straight forward, choir-led gospel tunes. The mix of hip hop and spirituality has drawn great crowds and continues to inspire globally.”<\/p>\n

The Christmas release of\u00a0Jesus is Born\u00a0<\/em>follows two months to the day the drop of his first gospel project, \u201cJesus is King.\u201d\u00a0According to Billboard<\/a>, the first effort debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was West\u2019s ninth chart-topper, tying the record previously held by Eminem for most consecutive No. 1 albums. Every song on that 11-track album landed on the Hot 100, with “Follow God” peaking at No. 7 on that chart.<\/p>\n

Much of the conversation surrounding the Christmas Day album centered around the fact that it was delivered on time,\u00a0prompting USA Today<\/a>\u00a0to call it a \u201cChristmas Miracle.\u201d In October, West announced the project would be released on Dec. 25, but there were skeptics since West has earned a reputation for missing previously announced project drop dates. As USA Today reported, Rolling Stone mocked the timeline saying, \u201cthe announcement that he\u2019ll deliver a Sunday Service album by Christmas remains the most ludicrous part of the entire discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the albums and Sunday Service, West has also produced several live, gospel-based operas, including \u201cMary,\u201d performed this month in New York and Miami, and \u201cNebuchadnezzar\u201d in November at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy: \u00a9Getty Images\/Rich Fury\/Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The album is made up of 19 tracks including one called \u201cRevelations 19:1\u201d and another called \u201cFather Stretch.\u201d I-Tunes has marked both of these songs along with two others \u2013 \u201cBack to Life\u201d and \u201cSouls Anchored\u201d \u2013 as popular tracks on the newly released record. West is the executive producer of the Eighty-four minutes long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}