WLCMA vs PVA: 2017 Edition - Song Awards/General Field

We continue with our picks for who will win This Years We Love Christian Music Awards, presented by +NewReleaseToday . The last time we discussed the Album Awards, which is the only section of the awards that we have pool entries to match. The others (Song, and General Field) have no ready pool entries yet, so for those two categories we will be all quick picks. You can't go into detail if you don't have your material prepared. Let's get to it.

• Worship Song: Extravagant, Bethel Music
• Movie Song: Almost Human, Lauren Daigle
• Collaboration: Shine Like Gold, Switchfoot and Lifehouse
• Cover Song: September, Tauren Wells
• Song of The Year: Broken Things, Matthew West

Now for the rest of the bunch, also Quick Picks. The General Field

• Male Artist: Danny Gokey
• Female Artist: Hollyn
• Group: Red
• New Artist-Group: As We Ascend
• Next Best Thing: Mass Anthem
• Music Video of The Year: Back From The Dead, Skillet

That concludes our predictions. We will return to add up the score. Until next time, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

Dove Awards 2016 Predictions: Song Awards

We move on to the song portion of the Dove Prediction Posts. Once again I will do a representative sample, not all of them. I may do a quick hits for all the rest in the final post. Songs are more subjective than albums, so in some cases I have done a "backup pick" if I think more than one song deserves to win. I will only count one loss, however, because there is only one award per genre.

We begin with Inspiration Song of The Year. I double down that the Dove's need to sift better between Worship and Inspirational. There is too much overlap. Anyway, the nominees:

• Pieces, Bethel Music
• Let It Be Jesus, Christy Nockels
• Heavens Shore, David Phelps
• O Praise The Name (Anastasis), Hillsong
• Til I Met You, Laura Story

MY PICK: Even though I thought It was a Worship Song, not Inspirational (and it Won Modern Worship Song of The Year for #PlatVnyl6), my pick is Let It Be Jesus.

Worship Song of The Year is Next, and it had one #PlatVnyl6 Song Nominee. 

• No Longer Slaves, Bethel Music
• Good Good Father, Chris Tomlin
• Touch The Sky, Hillsong
• We Believe, Travis Ryan
• Even So Come, Chris Tomlin

MY PICK: The judges at Night Beat HQ have been impressed with Bethel Church for quite a while, and we are going with No Longer Slaves.

Contemporary Gospel/Urban Song of The Year is next. Only one song on the list was on my list as well. The others I had not noticed. The nominees:

• Wait On You, Janice Gaines
• The Way That You Love Me, Jonathan McReynolds
• Wanna Be Happy, Kirk Franklin
• One Way, Tamela Mann
• I'm Good, Tim Bowman, Jr.

MY PICK: I Wanna Be Happy, and I want Kirk Franklin to be as well. I am picking this for the win.

Finally, we shall end this post with Rock/Contemporary Song of The Year, which I am going to interpret as Rock Song. The Nominees:

• God Is On The Move, 7th Time Down
• Move, Audio Adrenaline
• Happiness, Needtobreathe
• Take Me Over, RED
• Live On Forever, The Afters

MY PICK: Even though I thought It was alternative, there is no song better on this list than the Afters Live On Forever. However, I also made a backup pick of God Is On the Move by 7eventh Time Down. 

That does it for this post. We take on the General Field next. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.

The 2015 Dove Award Nominations: Song Song Blues

Though we are a bit delayed, we continue with our predictions as to who will win the 2015 Dove Awards. Since the awards wont be handed out until October, I am not going to miss anything. I will be a little bit bolder here. Not that I am no longer concerned about tipping my hand, just not as much. After all, if I like a song on the album, that's no indication I will love the album.

We begin with Worship Song. The five nominees were Great Are You Lord by All Sons and Daughters; Holy Spirit by Francesca Battistelli; Forever (We Sing Hallelujah) by Kari Jobe; Because He Lives (Amen) by Matt Maher; and This Is Amazing Grace by Phil Wickham. Based on the airplay ratings and popular opinion, I am going to go with Holy Spirit for the win, but that is just wrong. For pure power and feeling there is no argument. Forever (we sing Hallelujah) should win.

Pop/Contemporary Song (or Pop Song for the PVA's) had six entries: Come As You Are by Crowder; Shoulders by For King and COUNTRY; Touch The Sky by Hillsong United; How Can It Be by Lauren Daigle; We Believe by Newsboys; and Soul On Fire by Third Day. I really have no dog in the race for this one, but Lauren Daigle was a nominee in #PlatVnyl5 for AC/Insp. Plus I once knew a family of Daigle's, and coincidentally they had a baby daughter named Loren. I think For King and Country is going to take the Dove.

Rock Song was a real head-scratcher. Safety (ft Stephen Christian) by Fireflight; Darkest Part by Red; Good to be alive by Skillet; Furious Love by Veridia; and Dead Man by We As Human. Red and Fireflight are the #PlatVnyl6 nominees and I hope the winner is one of them. Veridia was a #PlatVnyl5 nominee and Skillet and We As Human were in #PlatVnyl4. I have a bad feeling that Skillet is going to win for an old song. Red should.

Rap Song nominees are Who You Know by Derek Minor; Sideways (feat Lecrae) by KB; All I Need Is You by Lecrae; Mansion by NF; and Volcano (ft Jonathan Thulin) by Rapture Ruckus. I'm going to predict Mansion as the winner with NF, though of the choices offered, I would pick Volcano, which is in the #PlatVnyl6 pool. One caveat though. Despite the Rap by Rapture Ruckus in the song, it is not a Rap Song. It plays more like EDM or Alternative Rock.

I will do Song of The Year, Artist, New Artist and Dabble with videos in the final post. Until then, I am Awaiting Your Reply.