Plus, Marvin Sapp hits the Hot Gospel Songs top 10.
Ricky Dillard’s “Release,” featuring Tiff Joy, ascends 2-1 on Billboard‘s Gospel Airplay chart dated Aug. 29, up 22% in plays in the week ending Aug. 23, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
Dillard earns his second No. 1, among four top 10s, on Gospel Airplay. He first led with “Amazing,” with choir New G, for 30 weeks starting in July 2014. (“Release” is his first Gospel Airplay entry, among nine total, without a New G billing.)
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“Amazing” is the second-longest-leading No. 1 in the 15-year history of Gospel Airplay, behind only Marvin Sapp’s “Never Would Have Made It,” which controlled the list for 46 frames beginning in August 2007.
Joy achieves her first Gospel Airplay No. 1 in her second appearance, after “The Promise” reached No. 24 in November 2015.
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Sapp, meanwhile, flies 18-4 on Billboard’s multi-metric Hot Gospel Songs with “Thank You for It All” after he performed the song on BET’s Sunday Best on Aug. 16.
In the tracking week ending Aug. 20, the track sold 1,000 downloads (up 531%), prompting its 19-1 flight on Gospel Digital Song Sales; it debuted at the pinnacle in June as his fourth leader.
On Gospel Airplay, the song ascends 15-14 (up 39% in plays). It also corralled 231,000 U.S. streams in the tracking week (up 14%).
Sapp scores his 12th Hot Gospel Songs top 10, a run that started with the No. 6-reaching “Do You Know Him?” in 2006. He boasts the second-most career top 10s on the tally, after Kirk Franklin’s 15.
