BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – May 9, 2008 – Ten years ago, just as an emerging generation of new worship leaders began transforming corporate worship,
WorshipTogether.com was launched to carry this infectious new worship beyond the corridors of the church sanctuaries to impact the church and culture on a daily basis.
WorshipTogether.com now unveils a major website upgrade to carry its commitment to its position as the innovative leader in online worship community and resources into the next decade, announced Jimi Williams, director of Worship Resources for EMI CMG Publishing, which operates
WorshipTogether.com.
Among the newest highlights available to
WorshipTogether.com members are a superior search engine, a new video player and a Worship Together blog. These additions have been designed to complement WorshipTogether’s already extensive features, such as the most successful modern worship catalog in the world, weekly e-newsletters, free transposable sheet music, New Song Café videos and a streaming jukebox.
“More than 400,000 registered users and a million page views every month demonstrate that
WorshipTogether.com is a passionate and engaged community of worshippers. With these newest enhancements, we continue to construct a relevant and user-friendly environment that we hope will excite our loyalist members and attract fresh new voices to our community,” said Williams.
With a preeminent modern worship catalog that features writers like Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Brenton Brown and Stuart Townend, along with newly signed songwriters Steve Fee, Matt Maher and Michael Gungor, WorshipTogether.com’s value as a worship music resource is unparalleled. WorshipTogether.com’s new and more comprehensive search engine allows users to navigate through hundreds of great worship songs by title, songwriter, lyric, theme, Scripture reference or music register. Beyond the music, the search function will also locate key words in products, Bible studies, and discussion boards on the site.
New Song Café has hosted an inside video look at the inspiration, song and techniques of the most respected worship leaders. The proprietary Tune-In video player makes the video features of WorshipTogether.com even more compelling, with live worship clips, exclusive interviews with worship artists and originally produced video segments.
Already the consummate gathering for community, the new Worship Together Blog offers members an equal dose of practical worship helps and tools and spiritual insight offered by Williams and David Gutekunst, manager of WorshipTogether.com. In addition to the latest worship-related news, the interactive blog has posts ranging from gear insurance to dealing with disappointment.
“There are many ways to encounter God, and for our generation, the Internet is an essential vehicle for engaging with fellow worshippers in sharing and learning and growing as we all seek to know God well. That is the heart of WorshipTogether.com and will always be the motivation for additions and improvements to the website for our members,” added Williams.
WorshipTogether.com will continue to expand its free online resources to include more video content and audio samples.
About EMI CMG Publishing
As a full-service publisher, EMI CMG Publishing represents more than 35,000 songs and 250 writers, including Chris Tomlin, Smokie Norful, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Leeland and Thousand Foot Krutch, to name a few. EMI CMG Publishing also administers catalogs for top-selling artist/writers Third Day, Casting Crowns and TobyMac. Named 2006 Christian Music Publisher of the Year by ASCAP and Billboard Magazine, EMI CMG Publishing continues to be an industry leader in Christian Music publishing throughout the world, currently posting six of the top 10 CCLI songs and just under 400 in the top 2000 of the most sung music in churches in the United States. It operates the WorshipTogether.com website community.
EMI CMG Publishing is a part of Brentwood, Tennessee-based EMI Christian Music Group, which was formed in 1994. It is the world’s largest Christian music company, and is a unit of EMI Music, one of the world’s largest music companies.