Sidewalk Prophets

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Sidewalk Prophets

The Sidewalk Prophets are an American alternative rock band from the field of Christian pop music .

Band history

The Sidewalk Prophets were founded in 2003 in Anderson , Indiana by college students Dave Frey and Ben McDonald. The band consists of five musicians in total. In the first year they produced their own independent album entitled Sidewalk Prophets . They released another self-directed EP called You Love Me Anyway before they finally found a label on Word Records . They supported Audio Adrenaline and Jeremy Camp and released their first label album in 2009. With These Simple Truthsthey came to number five on the US Heatseeker charts and had a number three hit on the Christian Songs charts with The Words I Would Say . This earned them the Newcomer Prize at the GMA Dove Awards the following year .

As a result, they had repeated successes in the Christian Songs charts, You Love Me Anyway became a number one hit in these special charts in 2011. The second album Live Like That was completed a year later. The title song reached number two in the Christian Songs and the album came in at number three in the corresponding album charts. It also made it to number 83 in the official album charts . In 2013 the Sidewalk Prophets released a Christmas album. Merry Christmas to You hit the charts again and the song Help Me Find It came in at number three on the Christmas charts .

Members

  • Dave Frey, singer
  • Ben McDonald, guitarist
  • Shaun Tomczak, guitarist
  • Cal Joslin, bassist
  • Justin Nace, drummer

Former member

  • Chris Jordan, guitarist

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
US US United StatesUnited States ChristianTemplate: chart table / maintenance / country unknown (US)
2003 Sidewalk Prophets - -
First published: 2003
2009 These Simple Truths - Christian15 (99 weeks)
Christian
First published: August 25, 2009
2012 Live Like That US83 (3 weeks)
US
Christian3 (58 weeks)
Christian
First published: March 27, 2012
2015 Something different US144 (1 week)
US
Christian4 (31 weeks)
Christian
First published: August 28, 2015
2020 The Things That Got Us Here US176 (1 week)
US
Christian2 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / provisional / 2020Christian
First published: July 3, 2020

Christmas albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
US US United StatesUnited States ChristianTemplate: chart table / maintenance / country unknown (US)
2013 Merry Christmas to You US177 (1 week)
US
Christian8 (10 weeks)
Christian
First published: September 24, 2013

Extended plays

  • 2007: Love Me Anyway

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
United StatesUnited States ChristianTemplate: chart table / maintenance / country unknown (US)
2009 The Words I Would Say
These Simple Truths
Christian3
gold
gold

(39 weeks)Christian
Sales: + 500,000
2010 You Can Have Me
These Simple Truths
Christian16 (20 weeks)
Christian
Hope Was Born This Night
Come Now Our King
Christian8 (5 weeks)
Christian
2011 You Love Me Anyway
These Simple Truths
Christian1 (41 weeks)
Christian
2012 Live Like That
Live Like That
Christian2 (35 weeks)
Christian
2013 Help Me Find It
Live Like That
Christian2 (44 weeks)
Christian
2014 Keep Making Me
Live Like That
Christian7 (27 weeks)
Christian
Hope Can Change Everything
Christian14 (7 weeks)
Christian
with Francesca Battistelli , Jeremy Camp ,
Jamie Grace, Matt Maher & Bart Millard
2015 Save My Life
Live Like That
Christian17 (25 weeks)
Christian
Prodigal
Something Different
Christian14 (25 weeks)
Christian
2016 To Live Is Christ
Something Different
Christian26 (23 weeks)
Christian
2017 Come to the Table
Something Different
Christian11 (31 weeks)
Christian
2019 Smile
The Things That Got Us Here
Christian21 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2019Christian
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2013 Because It's Christmas
Merry Christmas to You
Christian6 (6 weeks)
Christian
O Holy Night
Christian36 (3 weeks)
Christian
2014 What a Glorious Night
Merry Christmas to You
Christian6 (5 weeks)
Christian

swell

  1. Dove Awards , List of Award Winners (with search)
  2. a b c d Chart sources: US
  3. a b c Awards: US

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