Gentle Bones toppled off iTunes throne under the might of City Harvest Church’s latest album

Sorry Joel, your new electro-R&B direction and millennial appeal wasn’t enough to defend your top spot from Sun Ho. 

Though Gentle Bones had a pretty triumphant weekend playing to his staunchly devoted fanbase in his sold-out shows at the Esplanade Concert Hall, it took the power of Singapore’s most infamous megachurch to unseat his new EP off the top of the iTunes charts. 

As of this afternoon, City Harvest Church’s new album Draw Me shot to first place in the local iTunes charts — an impressive feat considering it only came out last Friday. With songs such as “You Love Me Like a Rock”, “Unforsaken”, and “Greater Are You”, customer reviewers wrote that they felt the Presence of God in the album. Judging from a couple of songs we heard (on Spotify), they’re pretty much vanilla techno-infused worship songs. No raunchy ‘China Wine’ vibes here, soz. 

According to City Harvest Church, the first print of Draw Me‘s physical copies have sold out — an unsurprising result if each and every one of their 16,000 over congregation bought the album. 

Meanwhile, Ho’s husband and church co-founder Kong Hee continues to drag out the court battle he got himself in. Kong, as well as five other City Harvest Church leaders, were convicted of misappropriating $50 million in church funds in effort to push Ho’s music beyond the sphere of Christianity. Can we call upon a local black metal band to unseat the church’s album? That should spice things up a little. 
 



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