With sales of over 18,000 units this week, a Billboard Top 100 SoundScan entry, beyond amazing reviews on The Christmas Sessions, and hitting the road with Steven Curtis Chapman for their Christmas tour, what more could be going on with MercyMe? PLENTY!
**MercyMe will perform in the annual Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade on ABC, hosted by Regis & Kelly, airing nationwide on Sunday, December 25th.
**MercyMe’s new single at Christian AC radio, “Joseph’s Lullaby”, is among the most added Christmas songs at that format this season, while their rendition of “O Holy Night” is among the most added Christmas songs at mainstream AC radio as well.
** MercyMe will share hilarious and poignant tales from holidays past and present, as well as music from their new Christmas CD The Christmas Sessions in a one hour, national radio special. The special will air on hundreds of Christian and mainstream radio stations nationwide throughout the month of December. The special features Christmas music all will love to hear: “Winter Wonderland”, “White Christmas”, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, “I Heard The Bells”, “Drummer Boy”, plus live in-studio versions recorded exclusively for this one hour radio special.
** A nationwide, 60 second “direct response” television advertisement featuring MercyMe performing “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” began Thanksgiving week (Nov 21 ) and will run through December. Watch for the ads to air on The 700 Club, American Movie Classics, The Food Network, Fox News Channel, Soapnet, Lifetime Movie Network, Nick at Nite, CMT, CNN, and GAC.
**MercyMe songs “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”, and “Silent Night” will be used on three different episodes of THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE the week preceding Christmas.
