Beautiful Love (The Afters song) explained

Beautiful Love
Type:	single
Artist:	The Afters
Album:	I Wish We All Could Win
Recorded:	2004
Genre:	Pop rock, Christian rock
Label:	INO/Epic
Producer:	Brown Bannister Dan Muckala
Next Title:	You
Next Year:	2005

"Beautiful Love" is the hit single from the debut album by Christian rock band The Afters, I Wish We All Could Win. The song was later used by MTV as the theme song to its reality show 8th and Ocean.

Critical success

• Certified Gold by the RIAA for Digital Sales in 2006.

The single's presence in the TV show 8th & Ocean prompted a six-week surge in which Beautiful Love was downloaded 90,000 times.^[1]

• Nielsen SoundScan named Beautiful Love as the top downloaded song on the inspirational chart for 2006.
• No. 1 R&R Christian CHR single
• Beautiful Love spent 9+ weeks on the iTunes top-100 downloaded songs chart (peaking at #14)

Charts

• Peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #55
• Peaked on the Billboard Pop 100 chart at #43
• Peaked on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart at #23

Awards

• In 2006, the song was nominated for a Dove Award for Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year at the 37th GMA Dove Awards.^[2]
• In 2005, the song won the mtvU Award for Best Streaming Video.

Television and film

• "Beautiful Love" was used as the theme song for the MTV reality series 8th & Ocean.
• Song appeared in Just My Luck.

External links

• CBN overview
• [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the afters|chart=all}} Billboard Charts]

Notes and References

1. http://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/news/011207afters.aspx Dove Award Winning New Artist The Afters Celebrate Top Downloaded Digital Song
2. http://christianmusic.about.com/od/doves/a/06gmanoms.htm 37th Annual GMA Dove Awards Nominations & Winners