hillsong music

Hillsong Church has released a number of CDs which have sold well. For All You've Done released in July 2004 actually debuted at #1 on the Australian album chart. It contains 15 songs recorded live at the Sydney Entertainment Centre by Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong Team. This is the first time an album of Contemporary Christian music has topped the album charts in Australia. There was some controversy about this outcome as almost all of the albums were sold at Hillsong's annual conference held in early July. The Australian Record Industry Association ARIA has defended the outcome noting that the album sold more copies than any other record on sale in Australia that week. Pop singer and former Australian Idol contestant Paulini Curuenavuli was also at the conference promoting her #2 hit single "Angel Eyes" from her album One Determined Heart. For All You've Done is the 13th live worship album released by Hillsong. The previous 12 have been certified gold in Australia and the albums have also sold well in Christian contemporary markets overseas. The previous two albums also debuted in the top five of the ARIA charts due to the capacity of the church to ensure good first week sales. Hillsong Church's pre-eminence in Christian praise and worship music stems from the inauguration of the Hillsong Conference in the late 1980s and the first publication of choruses written by Hills CLC members, notably Geoff Bullock, whose writing dominated Hillsong music publishing until the mid 1990s. Their first live worship CD The Power of Your Love was released in 1992. Since then, live praise and worship albums have been produced each year. Other music series include the Worship series, United, Youth Alive and Instrumental series. They have also released a Christmas album, a children's album and several compilation albums.