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Charts at present show For King & Country's single "Joy" cracking the Top 40 charts, nearing 25 at Mainstream AC, and 35 at Hot AC. This is the third single from this band of two brothers, Joel & Luke Smallbone, one of the best live acts in any format, who while having traveled this path a couple times before having quickly had the greatest success with this current single still tracking forward with a trailblazing bullet.
I first ran into the catalyst of For King & Country's success three years ago upon the release of their first single from their previous album, Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong, the powerful song "Fix My Eyes."
Programming Christian Contemporary at the time in Nashville, I wasn't yet familiar with the brothers, but upon the songs release, I witnessed personally and through sales and streaming their loyal and borderline, rabid, fanbase.
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