Nia Allen Tops Gospel Airplay With 'Wait (2020)': 'it's My Prayer That the Lyrics Will provide healing'

Singer-songwriter and worship chief Nia Allen banks her first chief on Billboard's Gospel Airplay chart (dated might also 1), as "Wait (2020)," her first entry on the chart, ascends from No. 4 to No. 1. within the tracking week ending April 25, it won via 14% in plays, in line with MRC information.

"Wait" is from Allen's six-song EP every Nation, released ultimate June. She penned the music with her father, Milton Ruffin.

"I wrote 'Wait' many years ago," Allen tells Billboard. "i used to be in the middle of making a decision and that i didn't understand what to do. i used to be going for walks down the street, and these lyrics got here to my mind: 'I'm gonna wait except I hear from you … I'll wait that you should see me via.' here's a track I've definitely needed to reside out. I've been singing it for years, and now the realm is being uncovered to it. So, for it to be No. 1 at Billboard is a huge honor. I'm excited, grateful and humbled all on the equal time."

provides Allen, "We're nevertheless in the course of an endemic, and people are hurting and searching for hope. it's my prayer that the lyrics of 'Wait' will deliver healing and encouragement to all of those that are distressed and looking out for answers."

Allen, a graduate of Boston's Berklee school of music, is at the moment based in los angeles and recently got her doctorate of ministry degree from Azusa Pacific school. She is engaged on her sophomore album.

"Wait" is the 2nd rookie single via a solo girl to steer Gospel Airplay in a span of three weeks, after Jokia's "Yahweh" dominated the April 17-dated chart, marking the narrowest hole between No. 1s with the aid of women unaccompanied by way of other acts in the ranking's sixteen-yr background.

The quickest prior turnaround turned into the 5-month and one-week wreck between Yolanda's "Be Blessed," which led for three weeks beginning in August 2005, and CeCe Winans' "Pray," which dominated for two frames in January 2006.

candy sixteenth:For King & country, the duo of siblings Luke and Joel Smallbone, rolls up its sixteenth proper 10 on the scorching Christian Songs chart, which blends airplay, revenue and streaming facts, as "Amen" ascends eleven-9.

The fourth single from the pair's Burn the Ships LP won through three% to five.5 million radio audience impressions and holds at its No. 9 high on Christian Airplay. It also drew 1 million U.S. streams and bought 1,000 downloads in the tracking week.

Burn the Ships bowed at No. 1 on top Christian Albums in October 2018, fitting For King & nation's first No. 1 among six true 10s. First single "pleasure." reached No. 2 on hot Christian Songs and led Christian Airplay for four weeks; "God most effective is aware of" also hit No. 2 on hot Christian Songs while dominating Christian Airplay for 10 frames; and the title track rose to No. three on sizzling Christian Songs and controlled Christian Airplay for 5 weeks.

For King & nation boasts the eighth-most hot Christian Songs excellent 10s, courting to the chart's 2003 inception. Casting Crowns, MercyMe and Chris Tomlin share first location with 28 apiece.

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