








{"id":4170,"date":"2012-12-19T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gospelflava.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2012-12-19T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T22:08:44","slug":"verity-gospel-music-group-garners-much-recognition-on-billboard-itunes-more-as-2012-comes-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/verity-gospel-music-group-garners-much-recognition-on-billboard-itunes-more-as-2012-comes-to-a-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Verity Gospel Music Group Garners Much Recognition On Billboard, Itunes, &amp; More As 2012 Comes To A Close!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/veritylogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4172\" title=\"veritylogo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/veritylogo-300x150.jpg?resize=300%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Verity Gospel Music Group<\/strong> has seen a great year with new releases from its top artists &amp; sustained charting presence from \u00a0Kirk Franklin&#8217;s 2011 release &#8220;Hello Fear&#8221;. Top artists on the label include : <strong>Marvin Sapp, Kirk Franklin, Byron Cage, Fred Hammond, Jason Nelson, Deon Kipping<\/strong> and more. The label&#8217;s hit compilation &#8220;<em>WOW Gospel 2012<\/em>&#8221; was named as the <strong>#1 Gospel Album of the Year<\/strong> by Billboard. Gospel favorites<strong> Marvin Sapp, Fred Hammond, Jason Nelson,<\/strong> and <strong>Kirk Franklin<\/strong> were named among the Top 10 Gospel artists of 2012. The label&#8217;s parent company <strong>RCA Records<\/strong> has also been recognized for the producing the <strong>Top Gospel Album<\/strong> of the year and some of the <strong>Top Gospel Songs<\/strong> in 2012. Six of Verity Gospel Music Group&#8217;s 2012 releases were named on the Itunes Best Gospel Albums of 2012 list. Those projects included: <em>WOW 2012<\/em>,<em> v4&#8230;The Other Side <\/em><strong>( JMoss)<\/strong>, <em>God, Love &amp; Romance<\/em> <strong>( Fred Hammond)<\/strong>, <em>I Just Want To Hear You<\/em> <strong>(Deon Kipping),<\/strong> <em>Shifting The Atmosphere<\/em> <strong>(Jason Nelson)<\/strong>, \u00a0and <em>Memoirs Of A Worshiper<\/em> <strong>(Byron Cage)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wowgospel2012.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4181\" title=\"wowgospel2012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wowgospel2012-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Music lovers can look to <strong>WOW 2013<\/strong> for the best compilation of 2012&#8217;s Gospel songs as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rca-records_300x300_crop_le.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4177\" title=\"rca-records_300x300_crop_le\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gospelflava.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rca-records_300x300_crop_le-150x150.gif?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>new music from <strong>Kurt Carr, William Murphy, and Hezekiah Walker<\/strong>. Verity Gospel Music Group artists also received 25 Stellar Award nominations, Four Grammy nominations, and two NAACP Image Award nominations. Congratulations to <strong>Verity Gospel Music Group<\/strong>\u00a0 and<strong> RCA Records<\/strong> and their artists on being recognized in the music community for their contributions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Verity Gospel Music Group has seen a great year with new releases from its top artists &amp; sustained charting presence from \u00a0Kirk Franklin&#8217;s 2011 release &#8220;Hello Fear&#8221;. Top artists on the label include : Marvin Sapp, Kirk Franklin, Byron Cage, Fred Hammond, Jason Nelson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[174,1157,614,1196],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billboard-charts","tag-billboard","tag-rca-records","tag-verity-gospel-music-group","tag-wow-gospel-2012"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12701,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/rca-inspiration-takes-top-honors-on-multiple-billboard-year-end-charts\/","url_meta":{"origin":4170,"position":0},"title":"RCA Inspiration Takes Top Honors On Multiple Billboard Year End Charts","author":"Gregory Gay","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"RCA Inspiration has remained a dominating force in delivering new music and highlighting beloved favorites, with its releases garnering major honors across all of Billboard\u2019s 2018 Year-End Charts for Gospel and Gospel Songwriting. 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