WorshipLeaderResearch.com is the home for articles and news related to a collaborative study focused on the behaviours of the primary contributors to contemporary worship and the attitudes and behaviours of local worship leaders towards them. By exploring the relationships between quantitative and qualitative data, we hope to better understand the relationship between the worship music industry and local worship practitioners. The study aims to equip practitioners with a deeper understanding of the forces that impact their corporate worship song selections.
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Following the Worship Money
Following the Worship Money: Publishers and Administrators Explore a series of interactive visualizations highlighting the changing ownership and administrative control of worship music's most popular songs since 2010. We’ve previously discussed the complex web of names at the top of the chord chart (i.e. songwriters), but what about those at the bottom? Who are entities like “That Dog Will Hunt Publishing,” “Vamos Publishing,” or “Pay Me Please Publishing”? Let’s explore the other players in the industry. Music royalties are collected through two revenue streams: the recording[...]
The Integrated Worship Songwriting Network
The Integrated Worship Songwriting Network Explore a series of interactive visualizations highlighting the interconnectivity of worship music's most powerful networks and the collaborative powerhouses that bridge them. When Elevation Worship releases a song, we might assume it was written solely by them. Yet, anyone who has seen a SongSelect (PraiseCharts, Multitracks, etc.) chord chart knows that many other names are included at the top, alongside the primary artist’s name(s). These additional names belong to other credited songwriters. Recently, the spotlight has landed on the songwriters in[...]
