Momentum continues to build in the new year for GRAMMY® Award winner TobyMac. The multi-platinum selling artist partners with music video website, VEVO to premiere his music video for “Eye On It” today, January 15, 2013. The premiere is expected to be TobyMac’s largest video release to date and further extends buzz for his synonymously named album, which released to widespread critical acclaim last August. Joining Toby for a special video cameo in "Eye On It" is GRAMMY®-nominated pop starlet Britt Nicole, who was a featured guest vocalist on the track.

In addition to debuting at No. 1 on the overall Billboard Top 200 and iTunes® overall album charts, EYE ON IT was named "Best Christian Gospel Album of the Year" by iTunes and "Top Christian Album of 2012" by Rhapsody. Amazon hailed TobyMac as the "Christian Artist of 2012." The three music nods are the latest praise for TobyMac's EYE ON IT, following closely behind the 55th annual GRAMMY® Awards which nominated the album for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. This marks eight career GRAMMY® nominations for TobyMac. Also adding to 2012's year successes was Toby's first career American Music Awards award in the "Favorite Artist - Contemporary/Inspirational" category. 

TobyMac is currently headlining the Winter Jam East Coast Tour which runs until the end of March. For more information on his upcoming schedule, visit http://www.tobymac.com/tour/.

Next week, Hillsong LIVE will release their latest church release, Cornerstone, on July 03, 2012. This album will mark the 21st LIVE release from Hillsong. Hillsong LIVE is the expression of worship from the globally influential Hillsong Church. Pre-orders of Cornerstone are available now at iTunes, which already went No. 1 on the  iTunes' Christian & Gospel Chart during the pre-sale.
 
Earlier this week, Hillsong LIVE introduced their first two music videos from Cornerstone, for "Cornerstone" and "Hope Of The World,"  on their Facebook page along with Vevo. "Hope Of The World" is also the debut radio single currently going for adds. Click here to watch the live performances of these inspirational songs.
 
Early reviews have stated that this is another needed resource for the church in today's society. Here is what media outlets are already saying about Cornerstone:
 
When Hillsong releases a new project, listeners pay attention. The music arm of the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, has been supplying the worship soundtrack for churches around the world for the past two decades. Although it would be easy and unsurprising for the group to repeat its classic sounds of the past, Cornerstone showcases a sound that is ever-evolving for modern listeners… With a sound targeted toward younger ears, Cornerstone fits nicely among the ranks of emotional pop rock of Passion and Hillsong United.
- Charisma Magazine, July issue
 
If you are looking for new worship songs to sing with fellow believers, this album is chock-full of congregational songs, especially "Endless Light," "Cornerstone," "Hope of the World," "Running" and "Stand In Awe." ...Cornerstone is the top overall album by Hillsong LIVE...every single song could be added to your Sunday morning worship set.
- New Release Tuesday

The hip-hop group Rhema Soul has released their first music video from their critically-acclaimed album, RED (Universal Christian Music Group/220 Entertainment Group/Good City Music). The song entitled “Break Out” was written by the three members of Rhema Soul and the video was directed by Wilbert J. Thomas of Space Cherry Films.  Thomas’ work has been featured on BET, JCTV, and WAY-TV, among many others.  He was nominated as Best Emerging Director at the Jacksonville (FL) Film Festival and won Music Video of the Year from Rapzilla’s Best of 2011 Awards.

Rhema Soul says “Break Out” explores the idea of embracing true freedom. “As people, we too often allow ourselves to be bound by fear and uncertainty,” says K-Nuff. “We look at the mistakes of our past and think we are destined to fall into the same patterns. The truth is we no longer have to be bound by anything. We can say goodbye to yesterday and, through faith, grab a hold of what's to come with courage and strength.”

“With the video,” says juanlove, “we just wanted to strip everything down so the words and the emotion behind them took center stage.” “The song as a whole,” concludes Butta P,“ signals somewhat of a new direction for us. We love the energy and the organic feel of it.”

Rhema Soul is also filming a new reality television pilot for JCTV, showing the making of their next music video from RED entitled "Off the Edge."  JCTV is a Christian youth network designed for 13-30 age groups.  JCTV currently airs in over 800 cities in the U.S. as well as streaming online at www.jctv.org.

RED was produced by Andy Anderson whose credits include projects from TobyMac and Group One Crew. The first radio single entitled “No Walking Away” was featured on Focus on the Family’s Plugged In podcast on March 29.

Together now for over six years, Rhema Soul is based out of South Florida.  The trio of two men and one woman recorded their first project in 2007 entitled Worn Soles, featuring the successful radio single “All You Are” with Hillsong United.  Their follow-up project the next year, Dope Beats, Good News, included the innovative song “Steez” which was nominated as a favorite video by the Gospel Music Channel.  And 2010’s, Fingerprints , offered up more personal songs from the group, including the provocative song “Fly Away.”  The group opened up painful moments in their individual lives in an emotional music video of the tune, where K-Nuff describes his parent’s difficult marriage; juanlove makes a statement about teenage sex; and Butta reveals the sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

The trio all came from youth and worship leader backgrounds, as well as strong ties to missionary work. They traveled with the organization One Hope (Onehope.net) for nearly two years, ministering to needy children in South Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe, and the United Kingdom.  Rhema Soul has also been involved with Hope in Motion, founded by KJ52’s drummer Pedro LaTorre.  The Hope In Motion team visits public and private schools with a dynamic presentation of music and dance, opening doors to help counsel students who are suicidal, depressed, or have been bullied.

GRAMMY ® nominee Matthew West is releasing his newest music video for “Strong Enough” exclusively with iTunes ® today, September 6. To coincide with the music video debut, West’s latest and best selling record, The Story of Your Life, inspired by 10,000 real-life stories from around the globe, will also be on sale at iTunes ® for $6.99. To purchase the video for $1.99, visit http://bit.ly/prLrpm. “Strong Enough” was inspired by one of the many stories West received in the making of The Story of Your Life.
 
The song has been a mainstay on the radio charts placing in the top 5 on the National Christian Audience, AC-Monitored and AC-Indicator charts.
 
Up next for West will be a headlining jaunt on "The Story of Your Life" tour this fall along with the recent release of The Story of Your Life, Inspiring Stories of God at Work in People Just Like You book with Angela Thomas and Harvest House Publishers. He will release his first, full-length Christmas album, The Heart of Christmas, this October with Sparrow Records/EMI CMG.