Together the songwriters account for at least 42 million albums sold, 82 No. 1 songs, 10 GRAMMY Awards, 118 Dove Awards, two Stellar Awards, two American Music Awards, and 98 current CCLI Top 500 songs sung by millions in churches around the world.
Following the retreat,
Compassionart songwriters began recording the songs in February at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Joining the songwriters were acclaimed musicians
Dan Needham,
Tommy Sims and
Akil Thompson, and engineering were
Josiah Bell,
Danny Duncan and
Sam Gibson. The songwriters continued to record songs in March at Pentavarit Studio in Nashville, joined by guest vocalists
Amy Grant,
tobyMac and
Leeland Mooring, and with
Matt Bronleewe and
Paul Moak guiding the tracks at the production helm and
Andy Hunt engineering. With 14 songs now recorded, future recording sessions with the songwriters are being planned.
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In addition to the songwriters, the publishers, managers, copyright institutes and agents involved have all waived their rights and are donating their efforts on this project to Compassionart. The songs are to be given through Compassionart to the world not just to sing, but also to raise money for the relief of suffering around the planet. One half of the monies received over the songs’ lifetimes will go to the songwriters’ charity of choice, and the other 50% will go to a charitable project agreed upon by all the songwriters involved.
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