Discovered by, among others, contemporary Christian music legend Steven Curtis Chapman, Casting Crowns got a recording contract and vaulted to popularity in 2003 with songs such as If We Are the Body and Who Am I. The Until The Whole World Hears Songfacts reports that Casting Crown's 2009 Until The Whole World Hears album recorded 167,000 sales in its first week, the largest selling debut week sales figures by a Christian artist in Nielsen Soundscan history.
Over the past eight years, Atlanta based Casting Crowns has consistently delivered music that points believers back to what truly matters.
Since its launch in 2003 the band has garnered 14 GMA Dove Awards, three GRAMMY Awards and an American Music Award. In addition, the band has seen three RIAA Platinum Albums (Casting Crowns, Lifesong, Altar and The Door), two RIAA Platinum DVDs (Live From Atlanta and Lifesong Live), two RIAA Gold Albums (Until the Whole World Hears, Peace on Earth) and two Gold DVDs (Altar and The Door Live and Until The Whole World Hears Live). Casting Crowns has sold more than 8.2 million albums to date (according to Nielsen SoundScan) and has been named Billboard magazine’s top-selling Christian act for the past four years.
The band recently celebrated its first RIAA certified Gold single, “Who Am I,” from its 2003 self-titled debut. The song, selling more than 500,000 copies, is one of only 12 Christian tracks ever to secure Gold status.
Casting Crowns has always worked its tour schedule around church responsibilities and has still managed to touch audiences around the world with its live performances. It’s 2009-2011 “Until The Whole World Hears” world tour placed the band in front nearly 1 million fans in more than 175 cities around the world including performances for U. S. troops in Kuwait and Qatar. The band also performed twice in North Korea in partnership with Global Resource Services.
Alongside the 2011 feature film, Courageous, Casting Crowns wrote a song by the same name which was also featured on their album Come to the Well released the same year. The album's second single,
"Jesus, Friend of Sinners" was not released until February of 2012. In September 2013, the band released "All You've Ever Wanted", the first single from Thrive which was released on January 28, 2014 and charted No. 6 in Billboard 's Top 200 in its first week. An accompanying book, written by Mark Hall, was released and explains the walk of a child of God and how we should "dig deep and reach out".
In early 2015 Casting Crowns released the hymn-album Glorious Day - Hymns of Faith, including Casting Crowns' Until the Whole World Hears singles "Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)" and "Blessed Redeemer", an acoustic versions of "If We Are the Body" and "Praise You In This Storm" as well as eight hymns.
In addition to a busy touring, recording and writing life, four of the members of Casting Crowns serve as ministers to their home church, Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, Georgia.
Joy to the World
Casting Crowns Lyrics
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Let earth receive her king
Let every heart prepare him room
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and heaven and nature sing
Joy to the world the savior reigns
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy (repeat the sounding joy)
Repeat the sounding joy (repeat the sounding joy)
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy
He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love (wonders of his love)
And wonders of his love (wonders of his love)
And wonders, wonders of his love
And wonders, wonders of his love
And wonders, wonders of his love
Joy to the world
The wonders of your love
The wonders of your love
In the first verse of Casting Crown's "Joy to the World", the song captures the essence of the Christmas story, announcing the arrival of the Lord, the savior of the world, and the king of the earth. The phrase "Let every heart prepare him room" is a call for everyone to make space in their lives and hearts to welcome the Lord, indicating the importance of opening ourselves to the hope, joy, and love that Christ brings. The second verse of the song brings up the phrase "Repeat the sounding joy" to emphasize the importance of spreading the news of Christ's arrival to the people, and to encourage everyone to join the praise song of nature and heaven.
The final verse continues to emphasize the truth and grace that the Lord brings to the world. By ruling the world with justice and love, people can witness the glory of his righteousness and the wonders of his love. The repetition of the phrase "wonders of his love" indicates the limitless nature of God's love and how it continues to surprise us. In essence, Casting Crown's "Joy to the World" is a call for all people to embrace God's love and find joy in the coming of Christ.
Line by Line Meaning
Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let us rejoice and be glad for the coming of the Lord
Let earth receive her king
Let the earth be ready to welcome their king
Let every heart prepare him room
Let every heart make space for him and be open to him
And heaven and nature sing
Let all creation sing along with the joy in heaven
And heaven and nature sing
Let all creation sing along with the joy in heaven
And heaven and heaven and nature sing
Let all creation sing along with the joy in heaven
Joy to the world the savior reigns
Let us be joyful as the savior reigns
Let men their songs employ
Let everyone sing and express their joy
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Let all of nature join in and celebrate
Repeat the sounding joy (repeat the sounding joy)
Continually express the joy and let it be heard
Repeat the sounding joy (repeat the sounding joy)
Continually express the joy and let it be heard
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy
Continually express the joy and let it be heard
He rules the world with truth and grace
He governs the world with fairness and kindness
And makes the nations prove
He shows the nations his righteousness
The glories of his righteousness
The greatness of his righteousness
And wonders of his love (wonders of his love)
The amazing things he does through his love
And wonders of his love (wonders of his love)
The amazing things he does through his love
And wonders, wonders of his love
The amazing things he does through his love
And wonders, wonders of his love
The amazing things he does through his love
And wonders, wonders of his love
The amazing things he does through his love
Joy to the world
Let us be joyful
The wonders of your love
Let us celebrate the amazing things done through his love
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Jenifer Karen Watts, Simon Elliott Varga
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
yosser martinez
Diciembre que mejor epoca para recordar estas hermosas melodias, junto a Casting Crowns quien Dios le ha dado todo ese talento para cantar, componer y brindar alabanza a nuestro Dios, amen por ello...
Tania Hernández
I love his music ♥ ️
Nilva ni
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙌🥰amo muito
Francisco Odilio
Voltem a estrela em nome de Jesus amém
Loving life
Absolutely beautiful you all sounded so good God bless you all Happy Holidays to everyone
TheCreepypro
love the duet it makes this version that much better praise the Lord!
Trudy Appleby
Love this thank you 😊
Preacher Mylena Silva
Linda canção
rossy rodriguez
Que Cristo Jesús llene de bendiciones a ustedes y sus familias y envíe Salud y Paz a los pueblos
Anteilia Boodoo
Beautiful 🙏🏼❤