Blessed Be Your Name | |
Artist: | Matt Redman |
Album: | Where Angels Fear to Tread |
Released: | 2002 |
Recorded: | 2002 |
Genre: | Contemporary worship music |
Blessed Be Your Name | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Tree63 |
Album: | The Answer to the Question |
Genre: | Contemporary worship music |
Label: | Essential |
"Blessed Be Your Name" is a song by English Christian singer-songwriters Matt Redman and Beth Redman and performed by Matt Redman. The track appeared in Redman's 2002 album Where Angels Fear to Tread on Worship Together label. The Matt Redman track was not released as a single.
The song was covered as a single in 2003 by the South African Christian band Tree63. That version peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Christian Songs chart,[1] becoming their first and biggest chart success. The single stayed 68 weeks on that same chart.[2] They included the track in their follow up album in 2004 titled The Answer to the Question. Their version is included on WOW Hits 2005. Also in 2004, Newsboys covered the song for their Devotion album.
The song has reappeared on later compilations albums, specifically on the Matt Redman 2005 compilation album released on Survivor Records and in 2008, in Tree63's compilation album released on Inpop Records.
In 2005, the song won GMA Dove Award for Worship Song of the Year.[3]