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Casting Crowns, Christian music's top-selling new artist over the past year, added another milestone to its exceptional career this week with the release of its new DVD/CD project Live From Atlanta at No. 1 on the Nielsen Soundscan Top Christian Music Videos chart.

Live From Atlanta, follow-up to their highly successful self-titled debut, also entered the overall Top Music Videos chart at #12. The new project offers an inside look at the group via live performances and in-depth interviews with band members, and also showcases the release of the band's first music video, "American Dream."

Dean Diehl, sr vp of marketing for Provident Label Group, notes, "Casting Crowns continues to exceed our expectations, break records, achieve amazing success in all they do, while remaining the same group of young people we first met and signed just a little over a year ago - a group committed to local youth ministry and expanding that ministry around the world. This has been an incredibly humbling experience as God continues to work through this group in ways unlike anything I've ever seen before."

The success of the new Casting Crowns project underscores the impact made by the band over the past year with the group's RIAA certified gold debut regaining the top position this week on the Nielsen Soundscan's Top Christian Albums chart. Following up the album's two multi-format #1 songs, the latest single, "Voice Of Truth," is currently most added at Christian AC radio.

Casting Crowns hits the road this Fall with the Steven Curtis Chapman "All Things New" tour kicking off October 21 in El Paso, TX . For tour dates and additional information, please visit www.castingcrowns.com or www.reunionrecords.com.

Casting Crowns, formed during frontman Mark Hall's tenure as a youth minister in Daytona Beach, Fla. four years ago, developed its unique sound while leading Wed. night worship for its youth group. Accepting a similar post in Atlanta, Hall and other band members relocated in order to continue and grow their music ministry.

Beach Street Records, an imprint of Reunion Records and Provident Label Group, was launched by Mark Miller, founder and frontman of the multi-platinum country music phenomenon Sawyer Brown. Casting Crowns, the imprint's flagship artist, is distributed to Christian retail through Provident Distribution and to the general market through BMG.

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