Phil Wickham
Encyclopedia
Phil Wickham is a Contemporary Christian
vocalist/songwriter
and guitarist
from San Diego, California
. Wickham has released five CDs, Give You My World
in 2003, a self-titled album
in 2006, Cannons
in 2007, singalong in 2008, and Heaven & Earth
in 2009. His upcoming album "Response" is slated to be released October 4, 2011. Through his website "Response" CDs can be pre-ordered and a digital download is for sale for immediate download. He has also led worship at Soul Survivor.
in 2002. Wickham's father is currently a worship leader, and both of his parents were at one time members of Jesus movement
band Parable. His older brother Evan Wickham is also a musician who used to serve at Calvary Chapel
Vista, and now currently serves at Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego, CA. His parents, John and Lisa, encouraged Wickham to learn popular praise songs and to write his own. Wickham began his full-time music career by touring California and recording his first album.
On November 2, 2008, Wickham married his long time girlfriend, Mallory Plotnik, another student from Calvary Christian school.
Evan Wickham and Phil Wickham are not twins.
, Cannons, was released in 2007. Cannons was inspired by cannon explosions and C.S. Lewis's book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
from The Chronicles of Narnia
series. Wickham stated in an interview with ChristianityToday.com that the album is "about how the universe is exploding with the glory of God, and how we are compelled to join in with its song." The 10th track from Cannons, "Jesus Lord of Heaven", has been translated into seven different languages. On August 8, 2008 Wickham released a live worship album titled singalong, recorded at Solid Rock Church Portland, Oregon with 3000 fans present. The album was released as a free download, only available from his website, and received over 8,000 downloads within a week of being released. After the release of his singalong album, his self-titled debut climbed to No. 25 on iTunes
Top Christian Albums chart (2 years after its initial release).
On Thursday, April 17, 2009 during a concert with fellow Christian artist Charlie Hall at Calvary Church of Santa Ana, California, Mr. Wickham stated that he was in the studio recording a new record. The record, "Heaven and Earth," was released on November 17.
On October 29, 2010, Phil Wickham's Christmas album 'Songs for Christmas' was released. This was only available on his website, philwickham.com.
On November 17, 2010, Phil Wickham posted "Just had two great days of recording for the next recording. It will be hard to wait for all the months to go by to share it with you!"
Shortly after this was posted, Phil's producer Pete Kipley, who worked on the last record, posted a video on twitvid which you can hear part of the new record. You can listen to it here: http://www.twitvid.com/N5WGL . This so far is known as "Phil Wickham IV"
and Audio Adrenaline
.
In the fall of 2007, he toured on the Remedy tour with The David Crowder Band
and The Myriad
.
In the fall of 2008, Phil had his first headlining tour, with support acts Fee and Meredith Andrews.
In the spring of 2010, Phil co-headlined a US national tour with Leeland
, with support act Matt Maher
.
In the summer of 2010, Phil Wickham was one of the worship leaders present at Soul Survivor week C and Momentum Festival in the UK.
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
vocalist/songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
and guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
from San Diego, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Wickham has released five CDs, Give You My World
Give You My World
Give You My World is the first album recorded and released independently by Phil Wickham. Produced by Wickham and his father and recorded in a small home studio. The album gained popularity quickly, especially in the Calvary Chapel affiliation....
in 2003, a self-titled album
Phil Wickham (album)
Phil Wickham is the debut album recorded by American Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham, released on April 25, 2006.-Background:"Every song on the record is an adventure, which made making the record an unforgettable experience" Kipley says...
in 2006, Cannons
Cannons (album)
Cannons is the second studio album by American contemporary Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham, released on October 2, 2007, the album is outpacing same week sales of Phil Wickham's debut with more than 40 percent of album sales in digital form. He also debuted on Real Rhapsody’s top artists...
in 2007, singalong in 2008, and Heaven & Earth
Heaven & Earth (Phil Wickham album)
Heaven & Earth is the fourth studio album by American Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham, released on November 10, 2009. The album debuted on #4 on Billboard's Hot Christian Albums chart after selling nearly 14k albums with more than 40 percent of album sales in digital, making his highest...
in 2009. His upcoming album "Response" is slated to be released October 4, 2011. Through his website "Response" CDs can be pre-ordered and a digital download is for sale for immediate download. He has also led worship at Soul Survivor.
Early Years
Wickham was raised in a Christian home, the second of three children (brother Evan, sister Jillian), and after feeling the need to "make his faith his own" he began leading worship for his youth group at 12 years old. He graduated from Calvary Christian School in Vista, CaliforniaVista, California
Vista is a city in north San Diego County, California. It was incorporated January 28, 1963 and became a charter city on June 13, 2007. Located just seven miles inland from the Pacific Ocean in northern San Diego County, the City of Vista has a Mediterranean climate...
in 2002. Wickham's father is currently a worship leader, and both of his parents were at one time members of Jesus movement
Jesus movement
The Jesus movement was a movement in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980s. It was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture,...
band Parable. His older brother Evan Wickham is also a musician who used to serve at Calvary Chapel
Calvary Chapel
Calvary Chapel is an evangelical association of Christian churches with over one thousand congregations worldwide. Calvary Chapel also maintains a number of radio stations around the world and operates many local Calvary Chapel Bible College programs. It presents itself as a "fellowship of...
Vista, and now currently serves at Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego, CA. His parents, John and Lisa, encouraged Wickham to learn popular praise songs and to write his own. Wickham began his full-time music career by touring California and recording his first album.
On November 2, 2008, Wickham married his long time girlfriend, Mallory Plotnik, another student from Calvary Christian school.
Evan Wickham and Phil Wickham are not twins.
Albums
After releasing his independent album, Give You My World in 2003, Wickham signed with Simple Records. Wickham released his self-titled label debut in 2006. Wickham's second release with Simple/INO RecordsINO Records
INO Records, also known as Fair Trade Services, is an American record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, specializing in Contemporary Christian music . It is distributed through Sony Music Entertainment, and was owned by Integrity Media until June 2011. When Integrity Media sold its assets...
, Cannons, was released in 2007. Cannons was inspired by cannon explosions and C.S. Lewis's book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. Written in 1950, it was published in 1952 as the third book of The Chronicles of Narnia...
from The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
series. Wickham stated in an interview with ChristianityToday.com that the album is "about how the universe is exploding with the glory of God, and how we are compelled to join in with its song." The 10th track from Cannons, "Jesus Lord of Heaven", has been translated into seven different languages. On August 8, 2008 Wickham released a live worship album titled singalong, recorded at Solid Rock Church Portland, Oregon with 3000 fans present. The album was released as a free download, only available from his website, and received over 8,000 downloads within a week of being released. After the release of his singalong album, his self-titled debut climbed to No. 25 on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
Top Christian Albums chart (2 years after its initial release).
On Thursday, April 17, 2009 during a concert with fellow Christian artist Charlie Hall at Calvary Church of Santa Ana, California, Mr. Wickham stated that he was in the studio recording a new record. The record, "Heaven and Earth," was released on November 17.
On October 29, 2010, Phil Wickham's Christmas album 'Songs for Christmas' was released. This was only available on his website, philwickham.com.
On November 17, 2010, Phil Wickham posted "Just had two great days of recording for the next recording. It will be hard to wait for all the months to go by to share it with you!"
Shortly after this was posted, Phil's producer Pete Kipley, who worked on the last record, posted a video on twitvid which you can hear part of the new record. You can listen to it here: http://www.twitvid.com/N5WGL . This so far is known as "Phil Wickham IV"
Tours
Wickham visits churches across the world to play his music. From the fall of 2006 to the spring of 2007, he toured on the "Coming Up to Breathe" tour with MercyMeMercyMe
MercyMe is an American Christian rock band founded in Greenville, Texas. The band consists of vocalist Bart Millard, keyboardist James Bryson, percussionist Robby Shaffer, bassist Nathan Cochran and guitarists Michael Scheuchzer and Barry Graul....
and Audio Adrenaline
Audio Adrenaline
Audio Adrenaline was a Christian rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky. During the band's 17-year existence, they were awarded two Grammy awards, multiple Dove Awards and they released 17 number one singles. They were regular performers at the...
.
In the fall of 2007, he toured on the Remedy tour with The David Crowder Band
David Crowder Band
The David Crowder Band is a six-piece Christian Modern Worship band from Waco, Texas.-Band history:The band began when David Crowder, from Texarkana, Texas, realized that almost half of the students at Baylor University were not attending church...
and The Myriad
The Myriad
The Myriad is a Seattle-based band. They were selected as 2007's MTV2 Dew Circuit Breakout champions. Their newest album, With Arrows, With Poise, was released on May 13, 2008....
.
In the fall of 2008, Phil had his first headlining tour, with support acts Fee and Meredith Andrews.
In the spring of 2010, Phil co-headlined a US national tour with Leeland
Leeland
Leeland is a Christian rock band from Baytown, Texas. The band was formed in 2004, although lead singer Leeland Mooring had been writing songs beforehand. Leeland is composed of Leeland Mooring , Jack Mooring , Casey Moore , Shelly Mooring and Mike Smith...
, with support act Matt Maher
Matt Maher
Matthew "Matt" Guion Maher is a contemporary Christian music artist, songwriter, and worship leader originally from Newfoundland, Canada, who later relocated to Tempe, Arizona. He has written and produced five solo albums to date...
.
In the summer of 2010, Phil Wickham was one of the worship leaders present at Soul Survivor week C and Momentum Festival in the UK.
Albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales threshold) |
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| 2003 | Give You My World Give You My World Give You My World is the first album recorded and released independently by Phil Wickham. Produced by Wickham and his father and recorded in a small home studio. The album gained popularity quickly, especially in the Calvary Chapel affiliation....
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| 2006 | Phil Wickham Phil Wickham (album) Phil Wickham is the debut album recorded by American Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham, released on April 25, 2006.-Background:"Every song on the record is an adventure, which made making the record an unforgettable experience" Kipley says...
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| 2007 | Cannons Cannons (album) Cannons is the second studio album by American contemporary Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham, released on October 2, 2007, the album is outpacing same week sales of Phil Wickham's debut with more than 40 percent of album sales in digital form. He also debuted on Real Rhapsody’s top artists...
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| 2009 | Heaven & Earth Heaven & Earth (Phil Wickham album) Heaven & Earth is the fourth studio album by American Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham, released on November 10, 2009. The album debuted on #4 on Billboard's Hot Christian Albums chart after selling nearly 14k albums with more than 40 percent of album sales in digital, making his highest...
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| 2011 | "Response"
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Other Albums
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U.S. Digital Albums |
U.S. Christian Albums |
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| 2008 | Singalong
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Singles
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| U.S. Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
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| 2006 | "Grace Grace (Phil Wickham song) Grace is the first single by american christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham from his debut album Phil Wickham.-Background:-Critical response:The lead single Grace has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from the critics... " |
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| "Divine Romance" | — | — | ||
| "I Will Wait For You There" | — | — | ||
| "Mystery" | — | — | ||
| 2007 | "True Love" | — | — | Cannons |
| "Home" | — | — | ||
| "After Your Heart After Your Heart (song) After Your Heart is the third single by American contemporary Christian & gospel singer Phil Wickham from his second studio album Cannons, the song reached No... " |
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| 2009 | "Heaven & Earth" | — | — | Heaven & Earth |
| "Safe Safe (Phil Wickham song) "Safe" is the first single by American Christian and gospel singer Phil Wickham from his third studio album Heaven & Earth, which features MercyMe’s frontman Bart Millard. The single has made it into the top 20 on Billboard’s Christian AC and Soft AC/Inspirational charts and reached #4 on the... " with Bart Mallard |
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| "Cielo" | — | — | ||
| 2010 | "In My Love" | — | — | Heaven & Earth (Expanded Edition) |