Past Internet Articles About Amy Grant

10/01/07
Amy Grant's First Ever Career-Spanning Hits Collection To Be Released On October 2, 2007
starpulse.com

During her award-winning 30-year music career, Amy Grant has sold more than 30 million albums around the world. EMI CMG Label Group and EMI Music Marketing have partnered with Amy Grant Productions for an in-depth global catalog campaign, including remastered catalog titles and digital sales initiatives. On October 2, Amy Grant's first-ever career and label-spanning hits collection, Greatest Hits, will be released around the world in CD and Special Edition CD/DVD packages and digitally. In the U.S., the new title will be released by Sparrow/EMI America Records.

Amy Grant: Greatest Hits features 19 tracks culled from all of Grant's studio albums, including nine #1 and nine Top 5 Pop and Contemporary Christian chart hits. The Special Edition's DVD adds more than an hour of exclusive content, including a new 40-minute interview with Grant about her career, a rare acoustic performance (audio), five music videos, a photo gallery, a bonus ringtune and a complementary three-month trial membership to the official FOA (Friends Of Amy) Fan Club.

In addition to the release of Greatest Hits, Amy Grant's three holiday titles, Christmas Album, Home For Christmas, and A Christmas To Remember, will be reissued on CD and will be premiered digitally across all major DSPs on October 2. In addition, several of Grant's music videos will be made available for digital download for the first time that day.

EMI's global Amy Grant catalog campaign began on August 14 with Sparrow/EMI America Records' physical release of 14 remastered albums on CD, including Amy Grant, My Father's Eyes, Never Alone, In Concert, Vol. 1, In Concert, Vol. 2, Age To Age, Straight Ahead, Unguarded, The Collection, Lead Me On, Heart in Motion, House Of Love, Behind The Eyes and Simple Things.

The August 14 debut of Grant's extensive catalog at iTunes and other major digital sales providers (DSPs) included 16 remastered titles, free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions and available at bit rates up to CD quality. iTunes launched multiple features related to the catalog's digital debut, including a new dedicated Amy Grant artist page with "Amy's Celebrity Playlist" and "What's On Amy's iPod," a 10-part weekly Podcast series featuring an exclusive new interview, and "The Storyteller Collection," a new digital box set of 10 albums for $79.92. Exclusive to iTunes, the set includes 112 songs with a 14-page digital booklet. Several Amy Grant ringtunes and ringbacks are also now available for purchase.

On October 16, Amy Grant will publish her first book, Mosaic (Flying Dolphin Press/Doubleday), a collection of her favorite memories from her life and her career. Through early 2008, Grant is touring across North America with her husband Vince Gill and the Del McCoury Band. Several Mosaic book tour stops are scheduled in October and November at major book retailers across the U.S., and Grant's upcoming TV appearances include ABC's "The View" on October 16.

Amy Grant has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, and she has achieved unparalleled success as a crossover Contemporary Christian artist. In the U.S. alone, Grant's achievements include nine platinum and platinum-plus albums and nine gold albums, six Grammy Awards and 21 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. She is well-known as the pioneering Christian singer whose success on mainstream radio opened doors for other Christian artists. Grant's impact was recently celebrated with a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame, making her the only artist with roots in Contemporary Christian music other than Andrae Crouch to receive such an honor.

For more information, visit Amy Grant's official Website

Amy Grant: Greatest Hits
1. Simple Things
2. Takes A Little Time
3. Lucky One
4. House of Love
5. Baby Baby
6. Every Heartbeat
7. That's What Love Is For
8. Good For Me
9. I Will Remember You
10. Lead Me On
11. Saved By Love
12. Stay For Awhile
13. Find A Way
14. Thy Word
15. Angels
16. El Shaddai
17. In A Little While
18. Father's Eyes
19. Old Man's Rubble

Amy Grant: Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition CD/DVD)
(DVD contents -- not final sequence)\
- "Looking Back - The Interview": New 40-minute interview with Amy Grant.
- Music Videos: Lead Me On, Baby Baby, Every Heartbeat, House Of Love, Takes A Little Time
- Acoustic Track (audio): rare acoustic performance of "Takes A Little Time"
- Photo Gallery: 24 pictures spanning Grant's entire career
- Bonus Ringtune: "Takes A Little Time" (link on DVD)
- Complimentary Fan Club Trial Membership: 3-month trial membership to FOA (Friends Of Amy) Club (link on DVD to an exclusive Club area of Grant's official Website)

Confirmed Amy Grant Concert Dates & Mosaic Book Tour Dates (* = Mosaic Book Tour Date)
Date City Venue
Oct 4 Orillia, ON Casino Rama Entertainment Centre
Oct 6 Lake Delton, WI Crystal Grand Music Theatre
Oct 13 Glen Falls, NY Glen Falls Civic Center
Oct 14 Newport, VA Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts
*Oct 16 New York, NY Barnes & Noble (Lincoln Center)
*Oct 18 Milwaukee, WI H.W. Schwartz Booksellers
*Oct 19 Nashville, TN Davis-Kidd Booksellers
*Oct 20 Murfreesboro, TN Hastings
*Oct 21 Birmingham, AL Books-A-Million
*Oct 22 Atlanta, GA Borders (Buckhead)
*Oct 24 Los Angeles, CA TBA
*Oct 25 Lexington, KY TBA
Oct 26 Danville, KY Norton Center For The Arts
Oct 27 Paducah, KY Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center
Oct 28 Athens, TN Tennessee Wesleyan College
*Oct 30 Ft. Worth, TX Bass Hall
Nov 9 Spartanburg, SC Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium
Nov 10 Winston-Salem, NC R.J. Reynolds Auditorium
Nov 11 York, PA The Strand-Capital Performing Arts Center
2008
Mar 21 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symphony
Mar 22 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symphony
May 8 Tiffin, OH The Ritz Theatre
May 9 Springfield, OH Clark State PAC
May 10 Louisville, KY Palace Theater (symphony)
May 11 Newark, OH Midland Theatre