[WhiteRob]

Radio & Records Magazine (R&R), the weekly trade magazine featuring the most updated news in the music industry as well as radio airplay charts in all music genres, has tapped BEC Recordings’ artist Jeremy Camp as the Top Act for 2003 in their New Artist of the Year Survey. The survey also touted BEC Recordings, tying with Sparrow Records, as the top record label for introducing new artists as well as showing major promise in releasing successful new acts in the future.
These results were announced in the November 7, 2003 issue, on newsstands now.

The New Artist Survey was sent to all Christian radio programmers and consisted of various questions about new artists, their successes and their labels within this past year. A massive 66% of the programmers voted Camp as the top new artist of 2003, while BEC Recordings and Sparrow shared 20% as the top labels. Stay, Camp’s first studio release with BEC, was also one of the two most significant projects to release from a new artist this year. Stay, released in September of 2002, continues with strong sales, staying in the top 20 of Christian Soundscan and scanning at least 3000 units each week.

R&R states that Camp’s success is due to his “ability to hit Christian’s AC, CHR and Rock charts with different singles which has catapulted him to the top,” as well as how BEC Recordings’ “efforts to impact Christian’s CHR as well as its AC chart on a consistent basis this year have also positioned it as a company on the front line of establishing solid artistry for the future.”

As he prepares for his sophomore studio release in the fall of 2004, Camp offers Carried Me: The Worship Project on BEC February 10th. Carried Me features well-known worship songs such as “Enough” and “Wonderful Maker” and songs penned by Camp as well as Tim Hughes (writer of “Heart Of Worship”). Carried Me is sure to offer Camp’s fans what they’ve been asking for as they anticipate his fall release.

Stay has yielded multi-format radio hits, achieving three No. 1 songs with “Understand” and “I Still Believe” hitting No. 1 on CHR radio and “Take My Life” reaching the top spot on Rock radio. “I Still Believe” went top 5 on AC radio. His current single, “Right Here,” is currently at #13, debuting last week at #30 on the AC charts. “I Still Believe” is also featured on WOW 2004 and “Enough” appears on the new WOW Worship.

After touring with Festival Con Dios earlier this year, Camp headlined the “Stay Tour” this fall, averaging over 1,000 people a night with ten sellouts in the first half of the tour. He will tour with Newsboys and Rebecca St. James this spring before hitting the main stages at the 2004 summer festivals.