Newsong's Winter Jam Passes 127K In Paid Concert-Goers Last Weekend

NASHVILLE, TN (WINTER JAM official website) - WINTER JAM '06 has become the must-see concert event of this year and the most successful JAM tour in the event's 10-year history. This past weekend, WINTER JAM '06 surpassed 127,000 in paid attendance in just 17 shows, averaging nearly 7,500 per night, announced Troy VanLiere, partner in VanLiere-Wilcox, and manager for Integrity Music's NewSong, which is hosting WINTER JAM for the 10th straight year.

The actual paid attendance during the first six weekends was 127,151. The tour's biggest show to date came this past weekend in Greenville, SC with 13,556 in paid attendance. There are four more weekends, with 14 shows left in the tour. The remaining dates and locations can be found at www.newsongonline.com or www.jamtour.com.

'WINTER JAM has surprised all of us as it has surpassed everyone's expectations,' said VanLiere. 'I think it is safe to say that the combination of our best line-up of artists and great tour markets have made this the most successful WINTER JAM ever. It appears that fans have truly made WINTER JAM the show to see this winter!'

In addition to NewSong, WINTER JAM's artist line-up includes Newsboys, tobyMac, ZOEgirl, Hawk Nelson, and Krystal Myers. The tour is visiting 31 cities every weekend from January 13 to March 19. In addition to the music, WINTER JAM features "Sphere Of Fear," a motorcycle stunt show, and guest speaker, David Nasser, a youth evangelist and author of A Call to Grace.

NewSong members continue to measure the tour's success by the lives changed at the WINTER JAM concerts. In addition to an estimated 3,700 decisions made for Christ, more than 2,000 have made commitments to sponsor children in Holt International (www.holtintl.org) Children's Services 'Waiting Child Program,' a monthly sponsorship program that brings sustaining hope and support to orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable children awaiting full-time adoptions.

Said Eddie Carswell of NewSong: 'The entire tour is humbled every weekend by the thousands of people coming to the shows, and then even more floored, when hundreds of kids at each show stand up for a new life in Christ or to pledge their support to a great ministry like Holt.'

NewSong has more than the tour to celebrate as 'Psalm 40' from their Dove Award-nominated album Rescue: Live Worship, is enjoying its third week as the No. 1 Inspirational Song on Radio & Records (R&R) charts, making it the band's 19th No. 1 single. The song is also No. 8 on R&R's AC chart. Christian Radio Weekly (CRW) has the song at No. 2 at Inspo and No. 6 at AC. 'Psalm 40' is still assending with a bullet on every chart.