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Multiple GRAMMY Award winning duo FOR KING & COUNTRY received their first Billboard Music Award for the GRAMMY® Award winning multi-week No. 1 hit “God Only Knows” in the Top Christian Song category. The duo has received a lifetime total of five nominations.
Joel and Luke Smallbone, the brothers that make up for KING & COUNTRY, share in a statement:
“Never in our career had we seen such gifted artists believe in and collaborate on a song like ‘God Only Knows’… from Dolly to Timbaland to Echosmith to R3HAB…
And fittingly, with the unprecedented nature of this track, never in our career have we won a Billboard Music Award!
So, to our most wonderful musical partners who each brought their own heart and passion and lent their voices (or bests) and took this hope-filled message worldwide, we say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ and we share this acknowledgment with you!
And to the 2020 BBMA’s – we send our love and respect and gratitude.”
“God Only Knows” has proven to be one of for KING & COUNTRY’s most enduring and popular hits, punctuated by a GRAMMY Award winning collaboration with world renowned entertainer Dolly Parton and subsequent performance of the hit track at the 2019 CMA Awards.
Appearing on the GRAMMY Award winning album burn the ships, “God Only Knows” has gone on to help the band achieve unprecedented heights, reaching No. 1 for 11 weeks while earning Platinum certification from the RIAA earlier this year.
The song has led for KING & COUNTRY to some memorable partnerships with the likes of Timbaland, Echosmith, and R3HAB in addition to Dolly Parton.
In total, the poignant music video for “God Only Knows” has received over 44 million YouTube views, and the track has accumulated a total of 166 million on-demand streams.
Mike Curb, Chairman of Curb | Word Entertainment, says,
“This is a very exciting moment. Curb | Word Entertainment and Curb | Wordspring Publishing would like to congratulate for KING & COUNTRY on this amazing achievement. What a wonderful song to be recognized by Billboard this way.”
With the holiday season approaching, for KING & COUNTRY has new music on the way in the form of its first Christmas album A Drummer Boy Christmas, out October 30th, featuring two new original Christmas songs.
Next month, the duo will embark on A Drummer Boy Drive-In: The Christmas Tour that will see them support The Salvation Army with a national toy drive.
Concertgoers can bring new, unwrapped toys that will be collected by representatives from the local Salvation Army and distributed to families struggling during the holiday season.
