Outline The WOW collections to date offer something for everyone and seldom disappoint. However, WOW Hits 2005 may have set the bar higher in terms of variety of new acts and a bountiful harvest of creativity. If we are to take the producers of the WOW collections at their word, then these Purple and Silver discs offer the year's best. Several good listens later, you'll agree that there is a bright future ahead for contemporary Christian music. Sure we have the bigger name acts of Mercy Me ("Here With Me"), Newsboys ("You Are My King"), Jars of Clay ("Show You Love"), and maybe the year's best single from Steven Curtis Chapman "All Things New." But there's plenty of new blood as well with Matthew West ("More"), Kutless ("Sea of Faces"), Building 429 ("Glory Defined"), Bethany Dillon ("All I Need"), and bonus baby Day of Fire ("Cornerstone). Praise and worshippers will be pleased with the inclusion of David Crowder ("Open Skies") and the delightful Zschech ("Pray"). While WOW Hits 2005 gathers a lot of radio hits, there's no doubt that more critical voices may clamor about various omissions. Ask a roomful of Christian music fans to put the year's 30 best on a WOW release and you'll get a roomful of answers. But all can agree that WOW Hits 2005 proclaims that the year 2004 was a good one. --Michael Lyttle
Item Specifications...
Record Label Wow Gospel Hits
Format Enhanced
Dimensions: Length: 5.5" Width: 4.8" Height: 0.3" Weight: 0.2 lbs.
Binding CD
Release Date Oct 1, 2004
Publisher CHORDANT ACNT# 3707
ISBN 0012291447 EAN 0724357110600 UPC 724357110600
If you love Contemporary Christian music, as my son does, you will love this. It includes all the hits from 2005 that you really want to listen to.
classic WOW Jan 8, 2007
I just like the mix of top songs they have in this series.
WOW hits Feb 25, 2006
Beautiful music. It is perfect to listen to with impressionable young children in the back seat. Only a couple songs were too sugary the rest were great.
Another Great Compilation Jan 15, 2006
Another great compilation of the ever-growing diversity of pop Christian music. Perhaps one of the best ever.
Terrific! Sep 19, 2005
WOW Hits 2005 is a great compilation of Christian hits for the year. As most people probably don't have albums from all of these artists, this is a cost effective way to obtain them.
There are a couple of songs that I didn't care for a lot. Excluding those, there are still about 30 outstanding songs in this collection.
You will certainly be in for a major treat with this CD. There are so many great songs here that I can't even really list my favorites. It would take up too much space. Buy it and enjoy.
