Brian Courtney Wilson, 52 weeks and counting
Music World Gospel Recording Artist Brian Courtney Wilson’s Debut CD “Just Love” is #8 This Week and Remains in the Top 15 after 52 Weeks on Billboard’s Top Gospel Album Chart.
Currently “All I Need” is the Longest-Running Single Charting for 60 Weeks on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Song Chart and this Week Lands at #7.
New Singles, “Just Love” and “Believe” Impacting Gospel and Urban Adult Contemporary Radio Respectively.
Music World Gospel Launches the “Just Love Tour” during Black Music Month.
(Houston, TX – June 8, 2010) – Music World Gospel Recording Artist Brian Courtney Wilson celebrates the year-long success of his current album project. After 52 weeks on the Billboard Top Gospel Album chart, his debut CD, JUST LOVE remains in the Top 15 and this week lands at #8. Currently, his first single, “All I Need,” is the longest-running single, charting for 60 weeks on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Song chart and this week moves up to #7. His follow-up single, “Already Here” has been on the Billboard charts for 50 weeks and remains in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Gospel Recurrent chart, this week the single jumps to #4.
“The 52-week chart topping mark for JUST LOVE is a significant milestone for my family and me,” said Wilson. “The continued patronage of our supporters along with the numerous media outlets that have helped us reach and gain supporters is an indication to us that JUST LOVE was more than just my dream, but part of God’s plan. Thank you all for continuing to decide to just love.”
“Brian Courtney Wilson’s break-through success is a result of inspiration and dedication. Over the last year, he has become one of gospel’s most talked about artists. He is a rising star with a powerful and gifted voice that has tremendous cross-over potential,” Mathew Knowles, Founder, President and C.E.O. of Music World Entertainment. “Brian is leading the way into the future of gospel music.”
Wilson’s new single “Just Love” impacted gospel radio in May and last week entered Billboard’s New and Active chart at #31 with a bullet. The title track was inspired by the first church that hired Wilson as its minister of music, after he left his career in pharmaceutical sales. “The pastor [Rudy Rasmus] would get up every Sunday and invite the congregation to look each other in the eye and say, ‘We love you and there is nothing you can do about it,’” said Wilson. “The more I heard it, the more I knew it was true and that it was okay to just love.”
“Believe” is currently impacting urban adult contemporary radio as Wilson’s official wedding song. Music World Gospel is planning various radio and online promotional opportunities to support the record during the wedding season, June through September. The song was created when Wilson’s good friend asked him to write a song for his wedding. Initially, Wilson was at a loss until he considered the treasure he has in his wife, “Proverbs 31:10-12 [New Revised Standard Version] puts it better than I ever could,” said Wilson. “My wife is one of the reasons I believe God is real…I never could have found her on my own.”
