Contact: Jim Weiss, Gospel Music Channel (GMC), 770-692-4579, jim@gospelmusicchannel.com

ATLANTA, Dec. 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- GospelMusicChannel.com (http://www.GospelMusicChannel.com) has announced its Top Ten Best Albums of 2008:

Mary Mary - The Sound (Columbia/Integrity)
21:03 - Total Attention (Verity)
Deitrick Haddon - Revealed (Zomba)
DecembeRadio - Satisfied (Slanted Records)
Fireflight - Unbreakable (Flicker)
Josh Wilson - Trying to Fit the Ocean in a Cup (Sparrow)
Newworldson - Salvation Station (Inpop)
Brandon Heath - What If We (Reunion Records)
Crabb Revival - Runaway Train (Daywind)
Greater Vision - Not Alone (Daywind)

The Top Ten Best Albums of 2008 were compiled by the senior music editors and staff at GospelMusicChannel.com, along with input from the staff at Gospel Music Channel.

In conjunction with their Top Ten Best of 2008 feature, GospelMusicChannel.com is offering fans a chance to win the entire Top Ten CD collection by visiting http://www.gospelmusicchannel.com/topten/albums2008.

"With all the challenges facing the Gospel music industry, it's always such an encouragement--such a labor of love--to look back over the year of the music itself and rediscover what makes Gospel music and all its sub-genres so rich," says senior content strategist for GospelMusicChannel.com Melissa Riddle. "From familiar artists like Mary Mary to virtual unknowns like Josh Wilson, the artistry represented here has never been more relevant. GospelMusicChannel.com's Top Ten Best Albums of 2008 represents the diversity and depth that is Gospel/Christian music, and after much deliberation and passionate discussion, we couldn't be more excited to share what we consider to be the 'cream of this year's crop.'"

GospelMusicChannel.com also heralded 10 'Honorable Mention' projects as standouts for 2008, including: Til We See The Shore by Seabird (Inpop), Just the Beginning by Kurt Carr (Zomba), Anberlin's New Surrender (Universal Republic), Karen Peck & New River's Ephesians One (Daywind), The Afters' Never Going Back To OK (INO), Free by Darwin Hobbs (Tyscot Records), Tye Tribett & G.A.'s Stand Out (Sony Urban/Columbia), Music from the Motion Picture Billy: The Early Years (Arista/Essential), and After Edmund's Hello (Slanted Records).

GospelMusicChannel.com has become the fastest-growing site and a leader among all gospel/Christian music web sites.* Gospel Music Channel is the fastest-growing network in television today can be seen in nearly 40 million homes on various cable systems and nationwide on DIRECTV on channel 338.

*Source: Compete.com

Contact: Jim Weiss (770) 692-4579 jim@gospelmusicchannel.com