New Album Leaving Eden Releases Next Week, Jan. 18
On the heels of Brandon Heath’s highly-anticipated third album release, Leaving Eden, the project’s lead single “Your Love” hits No. 1 at radio this week atop Billboard’s National Christian Audience, and both AC Monitor and Indicator charts. This feat marks the Dove-winning Male Vocalist of the Year’s fourth career No. 1 radio single. Leaving Eden releases nationally on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
Scott Smith, Music Director for the KLOVE Network, celebrates the hit song saying, “Brandon paints a beautiful picture of Christ’s love and compassion that has captivated KLOVE listeners!”
Written by Heath and Jason Ingram, “Your Love” is the pair’s first collaboration since their previous No.1 radio hit, and 2009 Song of the Year success, “Give Me Your Eyes,” which continues to lead sales with 550,000 downloads to date, according to SoundScan.
Fans in Tulsa, Okla., and Wichita Kan., will hear Heath’s current No. 1 song and new music off Leaving Eden live this weekend as he kicks off the 17-city Winter Wonder Slam Tour with GRAMMY Award winning artist TobyMac, running Jan. 14 - Feb. 20, in markets including Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix and Denver.
Heath’s street week launches Monday, Jan. 17 in Minneapolis with a performance at the Mall of America in partnership with Best Buy and KTIS radio, followed by a show with JOY FM listeners in Tampa, Fl. on Tuesday at the local Family Christian Store and his free concert with Z88.3 in Orlando on Wednesday.
The first featured video piece of Brandon performing new music is now posted on his website as the premiere of “The Leaving Eden Sessions” releases online this week. The “Your Love” performance leads the video series with future installments to follow. To view, and for a list of tour dates, please visit www.brandonheath.net.
About Brandon Heath
Since his 2006 debut, Christian music’s beloved and twice honored Male Vocalist of the Year (2009 and 2010) Brandon Heath has won an Emmy Award, been nominated for two GRAMMYs, an American Music Award, and holds multiple GMA Dove Awards. The Nashville native was featured on the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric,” while also spotlighted in the Sunday edition of The New York Times as a GRAMMY-nominated newcomer “that shouldn't be allowed to slip through the cracks.” His soaring radio career includes four No.1 hits, “Your Love,” “I’m Not Who I Was,” “Wait and See” and 2009’s GMA Dove-winning Song of the Year, “Give Me Your Eyes.” Heath first began writing at age 13 and credits his hometown’s legendary hotspot for songwriters, the Bluebird Café, as the place he first experienced music that moved him.
Off stage, Heath seeks opportunities to merge his public platform with his heart for community, regularly working with Young Life, Blood:Water Mission, Restore International and unofficially volunteering for many other human rights agencies on a global scale. Heath also created the annual “Love Your Neighbor” benefit with songwriter Jason Ingram, in partnership with Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, for a night of music to raise funds and gather volunteers for a focused need in the Nashville community.
Source: CMSpin