By Laura BennettMonday 9 Jan 2012MusicReading Time: 2 minutes
U2’s Spider-Man Musical Breaks Broadway Records
With a score composed entirely by U2’s Bono and the Edge, the ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ musical has broken Broadway records, becoming the highest single-week grossing show of all time.
Despite some struggles in it’s early days with poor critic reviews, and cast and crew departures, The Daily Telegraph reports that the production took in roughly $3 million over a nine-show period, which breaks the previous single-week grossing record held by the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical Wicked, which grossed $2.2 million over eight shows in 2011.
Aaron Shust’s “My Hope Is In You” longest running #1 hit on the AC Monitor Chart for 2011.
Remaining in the top spot for 8 weeks on the AC Monitor charts, Centricity Music artist Aaron Shust has reached a major career milestone with his hit track ‘My Hope is in You’.
From his debut Centricity Music album, ‘This is What We Believe’, the single also made #1 on the iTunes Single Christian chart last week, and is the longest running #1 for Shust as an artist, and the first #1 hit at AC radio for Centricity Music.
Shust’s follow-up single, “Risen Today” from This Is What We Believe, will be released for radio January 20, 2012.
More Info: www.aaronshust.com.
‘Downhere’s’ Marc Martel Chosen as Official Lead Singer for Queen Extravaganza Tour
After making it through the 11 week audition process, Downhere’s Marc Martel is now officially the lead singer of the Queen Extravaganza tribute band that will tour nationally and internationally in 2012.
Auditioning before a panel of judges including Roger Taylor of Queen, Martel’s rendition of ‘Somebody To Love’. went viral, receiving 5-million hits online, which lead to an appearance on the Ellen Show, an interview on LA’s powerhouse rock station KLOS, and a feature in The Tennessean Newspaper.
Now, having been hand selected by members of the original group, Martel along with the rest of the chosen few will embark on the “royal tour”, showcasing the original hits that saw Queen sell over 300 million alums, play over 200 shows worldwide, and collecting countless thousands of dedicated fans.
More Info: www.queenextravaganza.com
Rend Collective gear up for ‘Home Made Worship by Hand Made People’.
As they get ready for the launch of their latest album, ‘Home Made Worship by Hand Made People’, the unique Irish worship troupe that is Rend Collective Experiment, have created a beautifully captivating video, “Our Story”.
Explaining the new project, as well as their ethos as a ‘collective’ as opposed to a ‘band’, the group show us some new tracks, and also allow us to get inside the mind of this beautiful Collective Experiment.
That’s it for this week’s music news. If you hear of anything worth a mention, or have found a great band you think the world should know about, email me at nights@hope1032.com.au