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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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[...]
Wishful Worship
Wishful Worship: The role of aspiration in Sunday morning setlists “Do you wish your church was more similar in worship culture/style to the churches and/or artists like The Big 4?” In our survey of over 400 worship leaders (WLs), this question was posed regarding the influence of “culture” and “style” of worship on their church’s worship practices. (To find out who the “Big 4” are, check out this article on the “Big 4” brands.) This survey question was rooted in one of our initial hypotheses, namely that[...]
