Ernie Haase and Signature Sound Enjoy Unprecedented Chart Success for Latest CD and DVD Projects.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Gospel music sensations, Ernie Haase Ernie Haase (b. 1964) was the tenor vocalist with the Cathedral Quartet from 1990 through 1999. After the Cathedral Quartet retired, he had a solo career for several years. and Signature Sound, set new career benchmarks by debuting atop multiple Billboard charts On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade and on July 20, 1940 the first Music Popularity Chart was calculated. Since 1958 the Hot 100 has been published, combining single sales and radio airplay. (January 31st), both audio and video, with their Get Away Jordan projects, which released last week. Not only did the Get Away Jordan CD debut in the top spot on both the Contemporary Christian and Southern Gospel audio charts, but it also garnered the 58th spot on Billboard's Top 200, a rare, astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. feat for a gospel project. The long-form DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. of the same name similarly debuted #1 on the Billboard Music Video chart ahead of projects by Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli (born 22 September 1958) is a renowned Italian singer. He is both an operatic tenor and a classical crossover singer. To date, he has recorded six complete operas — La Bohème, Il Trovatore, Werther, Pagliacci, , Creed, Valentin Elizarde, Il Divo Il Divo, Italian for "divine male performer", is an international operatic pop vocal group created by pop impresario Simon Cowell, and signed to the Sony BMG music label. Il Divo is formed by singers Carlos Marín, Urs Bühler, David Miller, and Sébastien Izambard. , the Eagles, Metallica and Celtic Woman. In the modern SoundScan era, only one other southern gospel act has debuted in the #1 slot on the Top Christian Album chart or had their project debut as high on the Top 200 - Bill and Gloria Gaither, for whose label Ernie Haase and Signature Sound record. Signature Sound's founder and tenor singer, Ernie Haase, expressed his delight at the responsive chord the CD and DVD had ignited among music buyers. "You can garner awards, critical acclaim and criticism, but in the end, what really matters, is what the people say," Haase explained. "The people have voted this week that what we do matters." One fan who was thrilled at the debut success of Get Away Jordan is the Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, city (1990 pop. 27,310), Anderson and Roane counties, E Tenn., on Black Oak Ridge and the Clinch River; founded by the U.S. government 1942, inc. as an independent city 1959. Boys' long-time tenor, Joe Bonsall, who had just downloaded the CD from an on-line retailer. "What I like about Signature Sound is they can take brand new songs and make them sound like an instant classics," Bonsall pointed out. "They can also take classic old songs like 'Get Away Jordan' and make them sound new and fresh. The whole group strikes me that way when I see them perform, doing those great Statesmen or Blackwood Brothers songs. I really appreciate the boys because they're doing something the Oak Ridge Boys tried to do back in the middle 70s without as much success, and that's try to take southern-style gospel to the masses." |
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