Last week, one of the pioneers of Christian rap, TobyMac,
carved his own piece of history by topping the Billboard 200 with the album
“Eye On It,” making it the first time in almost fifteen years – and the third
time ever – that a Christian album scooped the coveted leading position on the
mainstream music chart.
“Christian music has been very successful on the Billboard
200 chart for a long while now, but TobyMac’s ‘Eye On It’ just happened to be
the first album since 1997 to hit number one,” Billboard Editor, Keith
Caulfield, told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “There was just always something
blocking a Christian title from the top slot – we’ve had a number of Christian
sets reach number two since 1997.”
According to Billboard.com, the last time a Christian set
scored a number one was in 1997 when LeAnn Rimes’s “You Light Up My Life –
Inspirational Songs” spent its third and final week at the top of the tally.
Earlier that year Bob Carlisle’s “Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace)” flew to
the top of the list.
So why this album, and why now?
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