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Last week I added a piece of news to the site about the More... Best Worship Songs Ever! compilation that has just been released. It is the follow up to The Best Worship Songs... Ever album which was released last year and became the biggest selling UK worship album of all time, with sales in excess of 100,000. Both compilation albums include several Delirious? songs, and incredibly, 'More... Best Worship Songs Ever' album has just entered the official Radio1 Top 40 Compilation Albums Chart at number 14 after it's first week of release! It's highly unusual for a Christian album to make any progress in the mainstream album charts, but this series of worship albums has the backing of major label EMI Virgin, has been advertised on TV and is available to buy in high street shops and even in supermarkets, all of which has helped to give the album a massive profile.

My copy of the CD arrived last week and I've been listening to it all week. It has many of the most popular songs that get sung in church every week. The only problem with compilations like this is that when you're used to hearing the worship band at your church play a song in a certain way, and then hear it on a CD sounding completely different, it can be a little disappointing. But the CD is great, just as the first album was, and the selection of songs on it is very good. I think I probably still prefer the first compilation, but I suppose that is the danger when you get an album that is supposed to follow on from something called 'The Best Worship Songs Ever' - if the first album had the best songs, that means that the second album has the ones that weren't quite good enough to make it on the first album! Having said that, there are definitely songs on the second album that could (or even should) have been included in the 'best' list. So I would highly recommend the album, and it is very good value being a 3-disc 50-track album priced at only £12.99. If you can, try and buy it from a mainstream supplier like Amazon or Tesco, it all helps to encourage them to keep stocking Christian music.