The multi-platinum Christian rock band Skillet has just hit a major milestone. Their hit song from the 2009 album Awake has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, with more than four billion streams across multiple platforms.
By reaching one billion streams on Spotify, it becomes one of the few rock songs to be added to Spotify’s Billions Club, and the only Christian song by the only Christian band to do so.
According to the GMA:
The milestone arrives on the heels of the band’s completely sold-out European headline tour, which sold 90,000 tickets across 23 cities and brought SKILLET in front of the largest international crowds of their career.
The tour saw sold-out performances throughout Europe, including London, Glasgow, Paris, Munich, Warsaw, Bucharest and Barcelona, while setting ticket sales records at key venues including Paris’ legendary Zenith. The overwhelming response further underscored SKILLET’s global impact and remarkable staying power more than two decades into their career.
Notably, Skillet has remained one of the few bands from the ’90s and 2000s era that has not fallen away from the faith or bowed the knee to LGBTQ ideology.* Instead, the band has stayed faithful and steadfast in the faith. Lead singer John Cooper regularly preaches the gospel and shares biblical truth at their concerts, while also publicly waging war on deconstruction.
Notable Christian bands that have come out as gay-affirming include Amy Grant, Jennifer Knapp, Jars of Clay, DC Talk’s Kevin Max, Relient K, Switchfoot (sorta), The Rend Collective, Five Iron Frenzy, Plumb, Sara Groves, Johnnyswim, etc.
