Brandon Lake and CeCe Winans Dominate Billboard’s End-of-Year Christian and Gospel Charts

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L: Brandon Lake. R: CeCe Winans. Screengrabs from YouTube / @brandonlakeofficial

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CeCe Winans Takes Top 2 Spots on Gospel Chart

CeCe Winans is a church planter, author, and gospel artist whose accolades include 17 Grammy wins and 35 Grammy nominations, as well as numerous Dove Awards and Soul Train Awards. She is widely acknowledged as the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time.

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“That’s My King” won a Grammy in 2025 for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. “Come Jesus Come” won Gospel Worship Recorded Song of the Year at the 2025 Dove Awards, and the single has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Gospel Performance/Song.

“That’s My King,” Winans’ No. 1 song on the end-of-year gospel chart, “debuted at No. 6 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated Hot Gospel Songs chart,” said Billboard, “and reached No. 1 on May 11, 2024. During the 2025 chart year, it racked up multiple weeks at No. 1 and never dropped below No. 3 in that span of time.⁠” 

Other artists in the Top 10 of Billboard’s 2025 Hot Gospel Songs year-end chart include Elevation Worship, Kirk Franklin, Forrest Frank, Maverick City Music, Chandler Moore, Naomi Raine, and Tasha Cobbs Leonard.

 

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Winans collaborated this year with Lake on his song “I Know a Name,” with their version releasing in June 2025.

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