Tori Kelly's 'Never Alone' Debuts on Gospel & Christian Charts

Pop songstress Tori Kelly's brand new Christian music single "Never Alone," featuring Kirk Franklin, debuts at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Gospel Songs chart. Similarly, the song makes a splash at No. 18 on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs.
This is the first single from Kelly's first faith-based set, Hiding Place, due Sept. 14. "Never Alone" marks Kelly's second Hot Gospel Songs appearance and second top 10. "Help Us to Love," featuring the HamilTones, was the first track to preview her new album. It debuted and peaked at No. 10 on the April 14-dated chart (and re-enters at No. 15 this week for its first appearance since May).
Fans who pre-order Hiding Place in digital format will instantly receive "Never Alone" and "Help Us To Love" featuring The Hamiltones, official background vocalists for GRAMMY winner Anthony Hamilton . Other guests include Jonathan McReynolds and Lecrae. Tori co-wrote and featured on Lecrae's Gold-certified hit "I'll Find You," which won a BET Award earlier this year and is nominated for two DOVE Awards: Song of the Year and Short Form Video of the Year. See below for the track listing for Hiding Place.
While working on the follow-up to her 2015 debut album Unbreakable Smile -which entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2 and contained the Gold-certified singles "Nobody Love," "Should've Been Us" and "Hollow" - Tori wanted to honor her musical roots by recording a gospel song. Her manager, Scooter Braun, realized that 12-time GRAMMY® Award-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin, was one of Tori's musical heroes, and arranged a meeting.
"I flew out to Dallas and Kirk showed me a few songs he'd written, and I fell in love with all of them," recalls Tori, who received the Billboard Women in Music Breakthrough Artist award in 2015. "Next thing you know, one song turned into us doing a whole project together. I grew up on gospel music, so the fact that a legend like Kirk Franklin would take me under his wing was just a dream come true."Hiding Place was recorded primarily at Franklin's studio just outside Dallas. Half of the songs were penned solely by Franklin, while the remaining tracks came from a collaboration between the two artists - the first time that Franklin had ever co-written in a decades-long career that's seen his songs performed by legends like Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston.
"I've never seen anyone that's a monster behind the microphone like Tori Kelly. She'd nail one song in three takes, and all those takes were amazing. It set the bar higher for my whole career,"says Kirk Franklin. "A lot of artists out there will rely on Auto-Tune or studio tricks, but there's no button you can push for emotion, and there's no button for skill. Tori is excellent in everything she does, because she's a real, pure artist."
In choosing a title for the project, Tori drew inspiration from verse 7 of Psalm 32 "You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with songs of deliverance.""That always stuck with me: this idea of God being a place of safety, a place where you can hide from all the crazy things that this world can throw at us," explains Tori. "I want people to feel uplifted and encouraged when they listen. I want them to know that, no matter what they're going through, there's a God who loves them so much and so unconditionally, and there's always a reason to feel hope, even when you're in a dark place. That's what I really believe in, and I want everyone out there to hear my heart."
Hiding Place - Track Listing1. Masterpiece (feat. Lecrae)2. Help Us To Love (feat. The Hamiltones)3. Sunday4. Just As Sure (feat. Jonathan McReynolds)5. Psalm 426. Questions7. Never Alone (feat. Kirk Franklin)8. Soul's Anthem (It Is Well)
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