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Newsboys

Australia's Newsboys are one of Christian rock's most enduring bands. They first rose to popularity in the 1990s and became perennial chart-toppers with a global audience who followed them through three distinctive eras, each led by different frontmen. After building their foundation with singer John James, they enjoyed a second decade of mainstream pop success in the 2000s behind Peter Furler, who was himself succeeded by another Christian legend in dc Talk's Michael Tait in 2010. Along the way, they experimented with various facets of rock, pop, and more straightforward worship music, notching various Dove Awards, Grammy nominations, gold records, and over 30 number one singles. An expanded lineup eventually coalesced after Furler's return, resulting in the Furler/Tait-fronted supergroup Newsboys United, who issued a studio album in 2019. Sans Furler, Newsboys returned two years later with Stand, followed in 2024 by Worldwide Revival, Pt. 1, the first of an ambitious two album project. Newsboys formed in the Queensland resort town of Mooloolaba in the late '80s around a core membership of John James, Peter Furler, and Phil Joel. Though they were panned early in their career for a perceived over-reliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped secular music's alternative revolution in the early '90s for an image makeover, with good results. With James on lead vocals and a secure guitarist, Jody Davis, in place, the group gained a string of number one singles on the Christian charts in the mid-'90s and received more coverage in secular media outlets than most CCM bands of their time. In 1998, after six albums with the band he helped found, James departed and Furler took over as frontman on Step Up to the Microphone, the group's first album for major-label Virgin. The '70s-inspired Love Liberty Disco appeared a year later. In celebration of the new millennium, Newsboys also observed their own career with the greatest-hits package Shine...The Hits, issued in fall 2000. Their most elaborate work to date, Thrive, was released in 2002 and led to one of their biggest CCM hits ever, "It Is You." The band issued Adoration: The Worship Album in April 2003. That record included both originals and Newsboys versions of well-known worship songs. Guitarist Davis left Newsboys in late 2003 in order to care for his daughter, and Bryan Olesen took his place for a little over a year. He left in 2004 to work on his own band, Casting Pearls, just after Newsboys released their second worship album, Devotion. Paul Coleman, an Aussie singer/songwriter, came aboard as the group's new guitarist, and the next two years found the band touring the globe and working on the songs that would become their first pop album in four years, Go. Arriving in October 2006, it was the first to be released on the Newsboys' own Inpop Records and the last to feature founding member Joel, who left shortly afterward. At the beginning of 2009, following a year of touring, Coleman left the band to go back to his solo career and Jody Davis returned. More shockingly perhaps, Furler announced soon afterward that he was going to scale back his involvement in Newsboys, no longer touring with them but instead staying behind the scenes as a songwriter/vocalist. His replacement came from one of the other titans of Christian rock, namely Michael Tait of dc Talk. Before Tait took over entirely, the band released one last album with Furler as lead singer, In the Hands of God, in May 2009. By September of that year, Furler was gone and Tait took over vocals for the group's next album, 2010's Born Again, which debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. The new-look Tait-led Newsboys returned in 2011 with the studio album God's Not Dead. The title track, which is a cover of Daniel Bashta's song "Like a Lion" from Passion: Awakening, became a chart-topping hit for Newsboys after it inspired a film of the same name. The 2014 film features a cameo of the band performing "God's Not Dead (Like a Lion)." Prior to that, they issued their well-received 16th studio album Restart and the hymn-centric worship album Hallelujah for the Cross, both in 2013. 2016's Love Riot saw Newsboys heading back in a pop-oriented direction and topped Billboard's Rock and Alternative charts. A year later, both Furler and Joel joined up with the group for the lengthy Newsboys United retrospective tour. Parlaying the tour's success into a new studio release, this expanded version of the band -- billed as Newsboys United -- issued the United LP in May 2019. It landed in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200. The four-piece of Tait, Davis and longtime members Duncan Phillips (drums) and Jeff Frankenstein (keyboards) then delivered the hook-driven Stand in late 2021. In 2023, Newsboys expanded into a quintet with the arrival of bassist/guitarist Adam Agee (Stellar Kart, Audio Adrenaline). He appeared on their next studio project, an elaborate two-part album titled Worldwide Revival. the first volume of which was released in July 2024.
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