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01/09/2008
MERCYME KICKS OFF 2008 HEADLINING WINTER JAM TOUR AND CELEBRATES RECORD-BREAKING RADIO AND SALES IN 2007
With their latest project “All That Is Within Me” outpacing sales of their previous RIAA Gold-certified recording, the multi platinum, Dove Award winning and Grammy-nominated band MercyMe is kicking off 2008 as the headline act for Winter Jam, and also celebrating a record-breaking year in 2007. WinterJam begins this Thursday, January 10th, in Johnson City, TN, and will hit over 30 markets through mid-March.

As the lead act, MercyMe will be partnering with WinterJam and Mozes to continue to build their already growing mobile fanbase. During the course of this tour, they will be encouraging fans to join their Mozes mobile MOB to get a free ringtone and wallpaper. Last year, Mozes partnered with WinterJam and saw over 40,000 texts from fans getting involved in the SMS revolution, and saw their mobs grow to over 12,000. MercyMe expects a great involvement rate for this year’s tour, as they were able to kick off their mob during their fall tour, ending it with 2500 members.
Mozes is a growing company that provides tools to send and receive mobile messages to and from bands, social groups, and friends.

With three two No. 1 singles from their 2006 release “Coming Up to Breathe,” (”So Long Self” “Hold Fast”, “Bring the Rain”) and six previous consecutive No. 1’s under their belt, their latest track
continued MercyMe’s reign as one of Christian radio’s premiere artists when “God With Us” set the record for most AC adds in a week with over 75% of R&R’s AC panel, and 79 total R&R and CRW
reporting stations immediately adding the song. The single went on to hit No. 1 in a fast and furious eight weeks.

At the close of 2007, MercyMe was the No. 1 Most Played AC artist (R&R/CRW) and Inspo artist (CRW) in 2007, and after reaching as high as No.16 on iTune’s Top 100 Albums list, and No. 1 on iTunes Top Christian Albums list since its release, “All that is Within Me” was also named No. 1 on iTunes Best of Chart for Christian/Gospel in 2007, a list created by iTunes staffers. In addition, the album remains in the top five on Billboard’s Contemporary Christian SoundScan chart after entering the Top 200 chart at No. 15 and selling an impressive 83,626 units, a personal record for units sold in a project’s first week.

11/28/2007
MULTI-PLATINUM BAND MERCYME’S ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME LANDS ON BILLBOARD TOP 200 AT NO. 15 SELLING OVER 83,000 UNITS IN FIRST WEEK
On the heels of a major promotional tour in support of their sixth recording ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME, multi-platinum and award-winning band MercyMe has once again hit the Billboard Top 200 SoundScan charts in a big way landing at No. 15, just below Jay-Z and above Beyonce and Rascal Flatts latest, selling 83,626 units in its first week of release, 30% ahead of it’s previous recording, 2006’s COMING UP TO BREATHE. The album entered at No. 1 on Billboard’s Contemporary Christian SoundScan chart. The album reached as high as #16 on iTune’s Top 100 Albums list, and has been No. 1 on iTunes Top Christian Albums list since its release on November 20th.

Live from New York City last week, MercyMe launched the new project with a Real Rhapsody session, SIRIUS radio interview, a performance at BB Kings and a live Satellite Media Tour (SMT) in the Reuters studio overlooking Times Square. The SMT hit markets including Chicago, San Francisco, Tampa, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta, and was picked up by several feeds, including the Associated Press, Reuters, ABC NewsOne, and CNN Pop Life.

Along with sales and some of the best reviews of their career (USA Today, Beliefnet.com, CCM, AllMusic and more), MercyMe’s first single for the project, ‘God With Us,’ set the record for most AC adds (57) in a week, with almost 80 adds from reporting stations in the AC, CHR and Inspo formats. Currently the single is already Top 5 at Christian AC, Top 10 Inpso, New and Active CHR and moving up.

“We have felt quite a ground swell of support for MercyMe and their new project on every level,” remarked INO president Jeff Moseley. “Radio, media and retail have really come to the table to show their commitment to this band, and for that we are truly grateful.”

Leading up to and after their NYC stop the band made live in-store appearances and performances and visited radio and retail in Dallas, Minneapolis and Washington DC, while headlining the Friday evening event at the R&R Christian Radio Summit in Nashville.

In addition, the band stopped-by Christian AC radio stations nationwide with on-air time and promotions with stations such as KTIS Minneapolis, KLOVE morning show with Jon and Sherry Rivers, Total Axxess/WAYfm in Nashville, KLTY in Dallas, an Associated Press Radio interview in D.C. and many others.

Retail highlights from the promo tour include live performances at Northwestern in Minneapolis, John’s Christian Store in Chicago (followed by an additional sold out cd release concert that evening), and Potomac Adventist Store in Washington D.C. In addition, the band had hundreds of fans show up at their hometown in-store at a Wal-Mart in Dallas.

MercyMe’s Online/Digital street week presence included prime positioning with Wal-Mart.com, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Sony Connect, Borders, Barnes and Noble, FYE Stores, Napster.com,BestBuy.com, and Amazon.com among others