Hillsong 2017 Album

[Heberto Calderon]

HillsongMusic is Christian music produced by Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia as well as offshoot churches, Hillsong London, and Hillsong Kiev. Hillsong albums are released and distributed by Hillsong Music. The main groups are Hillsong Worship, Hillsong United, Hillsong Young & Free, and Hillsong Kids.

Hillsong Church's popularity in Christian praise and worship music stems from the inauguration of the Hillsong Conference in 1986[2] and the first publication of choruses written by Hills CLC members, especially Darlene Zschech.[3] It is in this context that Hillsong Music was founded in 1991.[4] Their first live worship CD The Power of Your Love was released in 1992. Since then, live praise and worship albums have been produced each year. Other music series include the Worship series, United, Youth Alive, Hillsong Kids and Instrumental series. They have also released two Christmas albums and several compilation albums.[5] "What a Beautiful Name" won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song.[6]

Some Hillsong songs have distinct gospel influences. Hillsong Music titles regularly feature in the top 25 of most songs sung in all reporting countries recorded through the CCLI website. Christian Copyright Licensing International allows churches to use any listed music through a flat fee based on congregational size rather than buying access to individual songs, making recent music more affordable to churches all over the world.

The 2004 Hillsong live worship album For All You've Done, debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Record Industry Association album charts. There was some controversy about this outcome as almost all of the albums were sold at Hillsong's annual conference held in early July. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has defended the outcome noting that the album sold more copies than any other record on sale in Australia that week.As of December 2011, Hillsong has sold more than 12 million records across the globe, following its first release in 1991[9]and a quarter of all contemporary songs heard in Australian churches in 2011 were written by Hillsong.[10]

Early albums were released solely on cassette and CD. Video recordings of the live albums have also been made for VHS since the second album in 1993, and additionally for DVD since 2000, with increasing additional content such as documentaries and extra songs. The Hillsong United series CDs have included an additional free part-length DVD since 2004. Several music books have also been published. Including all the series (LIVE, UNITED, Kids, Kids Junior, Chapel, Young & Free, Espaol, Youth Term, Youth Alive, Worship, Compilation, Instrumental, Christmas, Preview, KIEV, LONDON) and other special releases (Like The 1st Album, Or Other special recordings) they have more than 125 albums, in 15 series.[citation needed]

Aftermath (stylised as 'aftər,maθ), formerly known as This Means Love, is the second studio album by Australian Contemporary Christian band Hillsong United. Production for the album began in March 2010 at Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia.[1] It was announced on 10 November 2010, that coinciding with the Aftermath album release in February, Hillsong United would tour the United States and Canada in February and March 2011.[2][3]

Aftermath debuted at number one on the US Billboard Christian Albums chart and at number 17 on the US Billboard 200 chart.[4] In the United States, it ranked as the 17th best-selling Christian Album of 2011. The first single of the band, "Search My Heart", was released from the album on 21 January 2011[5] and appeared on the Billboard Christian Songs chart.

In March 2010 it was revealed that Hillsong United was in the studio working on the first part of their latest album.[6] United's Aftermath was originally stated to be a two part project, with a studio release in September 2010 and another in 2011, but would later be conjoined into one album.On 25 May 2010 it was confirmed that stage two of the album was done after three weeks in the studio.[7] The album title was announced via Hillsong United frontman Joel Houston's Twitter account on 27 October 2010.[8] During a broadcast of Hillsong Backstage at Hillsong Conference 2010, it was uncovered that the album would debut in February 2011. There was a photo shoot lasting 3 days in over 10 different locations for the album artwork and photo collection on their website.[9][10] The album leaked on 15 January 2011, exactly one month before the album's planned release date, when it was unintentionally made available for purchase on the US iTunes Store.

Talking about how the album was created, Joel Houston said: "We took a whole year off really doing something. And we had a bit of a soul search and talked to each other and said, 'if we're gonna do this, as in United, and keep moving with it, what's it going to look like? And how prepared are we? ...Maybe to just ride on the coattails of what we've been doing for the last ten years or so or do we want to really take this thing forward?' And I think we collectively decided, 'you know what? Let's throw ourselves into it like it's the first time we've ever done anything'."[11] The album marks Marty Sampson's return, who sings the title track "Aftermath".[12]

Concerning the title, Houston said: "Normally 'aftermath' has a negative, even traumatic, connotation. At the same time, when I look at the Crucifixion as an event, it paints an extraordinarily negative and horrific picture. But the aftermath of the Cross is hope for all mankind. It's grace, freedom, peace, life and everything that is good about God. I absolutely love that picture."[5]

By Your Side is the eighth album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship music by Hillsong Church. It was recorded live at the Hills Christian Life Centre building (now known as the Hillsong Church Hub auditorium) by Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong team. The album reached No. 21 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Christian Albums Chart.[1]

The newest album Empires also includes tracks with well-written lyrics, and Even When It Hurts (Praise Song) is my favorite, as it is a low-key, relaxed song that reminds us to continue to praise God even in the midst of our pain and suffering.

As an Art Director and Designer for Bethel Music, Stephen James Hart has a lot to share. This is the place to go for creative inspiration, design wisdom, and a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a Visual Worship Leader.

I had design freedom in every facet of the project and I worked with researchers and an advertising strategist/copywriter. I traveled interstate to meetings with the client, traveled to the location, named the building, and produced all the ongoing collateral and direct mail campaigns.

We filmed footage from a helicopter and shot special panoramas, produced very large location and other road signs, directed architects in producing interior renderings and booked and produced newspaper and radio advertising for a number of publications and stations over an 18 month period. It was huge and it worked!

I felt it was a path worth exploring further, so I started handwriting the word Hills many times on paper until satisfied I had one that had a nice overall form to it. A different word would have resulted in a different form altogether but the strong vertical characters dictated the approach.

In the days before scanners were common, I simply traced the word onto a piece of acetate (clear plastic film) with a felt tipped marker, taped it to my computer monitor and traced it in a programme called Freehand by placing points and dragging them using the pen tool.

With the basic lines in place, it was time to work on editing the flow of the lettering and tidying it all up. I settled on a thickness of line which seemed to suit the form and rounded the end points and corners which gave a sense of continuity.

The flow in and out of every point was critical and involved ongoing decisions about the size of the loops, the angle, curve and length of the vertical strokes, the fullness or tightness of the curves etc. Each character had to be considered individually and then in context with the preceding and following ones. Then it had to be weighed up as an entire form keeping in mind I wanted it to be loose, flowing and free. And most importantly, it had to be legible.

Not only did you design the famed Hillsong logo, you were also the main designer for all their highly successful worship albums from 1994-2001. What an incredible legacy you've left! Tell me a little about that time, what was it like to create those now iconic and much loved album covers - how did the journey change as the new millenium dawned?

The next album I designed was Friends In High Places. As this also had no real brief I followed closely in the same Ken Duncan vein using one of his popular "sunrise over sea" images. I remember referencing the artist Joan Miro who arranged shapes on his canvas in a balanced way and Sidney Nolan.

Up next were the Simply Worship and Simply Worship 2 covers. These were directed by Asher Gregory, who ran Hillsong Music Australia at the time. The cover shots were her own which she had taken in grave yards on a recent European holiday.

God Is In The House broke new ground as an album. With a brief to feature key artists and the choir, I was supplied with a wide range of good quality photos to choose from. A mixture of strong colour theme and Photoshop combining of images produced a perfect visual formula for the quickly emerging brand. I remember Brian Houston acknowledging me and my team on a great job in church one night.

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