Elevation Worship is a contemporary worship music collective from Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. The collective leads worship in weekend church services at Elevation Church, as well as performing concerts and tours around the United States. The collective has sold over 1.5 million albums in the United States.[4]
History
Elevation Worship began in 2007 at Elevation Church in Charlotte.[1][3][5] The band released four independent albums prior to signing with Essential Records. The Sound was released in 2007 (under the name Elevation Church Live), We Are Alive in 2008, God With Us in 2009, and Kingdom Come in 2010.[3] Featuring the song "Give Me Faith", Kingdom Come was the band's first album to break through on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 5 on Heatseekers, No. 42 on Independent Albums and at No. 17 on the Christian Albums chart.[6][1]
The band released their debut live album, For the Honor, under Sony Music Nashville's Essential Records label on November 21, 2011.[1][3] It had chart success on Billboard magazine charts including No. 1 on Heatseekers, No. 19 on the Christian Albums, and the Billboard 200 at No. 193.[1][7] The band's second album with the Essential label,[1][3]Nothing Is Wasted, was released on February 19, 2013. A deluxe edition of the album also included studio recordings of each song. It reached No. 1 on the Christian Albums chart and was No. 41 on the Billboard 200.[1][8][9][10]
Their seventh album, Only King Forever, was released on January 14, 2014, debuting at their highest charting position, No. 23 on the Billboard 200[11] and featured guest vocalist Darlene Zschech from Hillsong Worship. The band released their eighth album, Wake Up The Wonder, on November 25, 2014. It was recorded at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte on August 1, and it debuted at No. 58 on the Billboard 200 in its first week. Additionally it was No. 1 on Billboard's Christian Album chart.[12] On July 31, 2015, another live recording was made at the same venue (Time Warner Cable Arena) for their ninth album, Here as in Heaven. It was their first album released on their own label, Elevation Worship Records. It was released on February 5, 2016, and peaked No. 1 on US album charts.[1][8] Their tenth album, There Is a Cloud, was released on March 17, 2017, after being recorded at Elevation Ballantyne during a revival, "Code Orange Revival". After There is a Cloud, Elevation Worship released their first Spanish album, Lo Harás Otra Vez, on August 18, 2017. The album peaked at No. 2 on the US Latin album chart.
In June 2017, Mack Brock, a founding member of Elevation, left when he felt called elsewhere and signed a solo contract with Capitol Records’ Sparrow imprint.[4][6] On September 28, 2018, Elevation Worship released their eleventh live album, Hallelujah Here Below, which was nominated for the 2019 Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. In 2019, Elevation Worship released the album Paradoxology on April 12, which features rearrangements of some songs from Hallelujah Here Below. Paradoxology included a single, "With You".[13] The collective's second Spanish album Aleluya (En La Tierra) was released on July 19. It peaked at No. 8 on the US Latin Album Sales chart. At Midnight, their seventh EP, was released on August 30.
Graves Into Gardens, the group's twelfth album, was released on May 1, 2020. The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Christian albums chart and No. 34 on the Billboard 200.[14] In 2021, the collective collaborated with Maverick City Music on their album Old Church Basement, which was released on April 30. Old Church Basement debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Christian Albums chart and No. 30 on the Billboard 200.[15] Elevation Worship's 2022 live album, Lion, was released on March 4, and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart and No. 80 on the Billboard 200.[16]
