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'''Bethany Dillon''' (born September 22, 1988), known since 2008 by her married name, '''Bethany Barnard''', is a ] artist. Her self-titled 2004 debut album was the highest selling female solo debut for that year, and attracted ] nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. Her album '']'' (2007) included production assistance of the ]'s 2005 Producer of the Year, ], as well ] and ]. Her sixth and seventh albums were '']'' (2009) and ''A Better Word'' (2017).
'''Bethany Dillon''' (born ], ] in ]) is a young ] (]) artist.


Barnard's work has appeared on the soundtrack albums of several feature films, including the single "Hero" in '']'' (2005, from her second album, '']'' of that year), as well as singles for the '']'' (2005) and '']'' (2007). Dillon wed ] of ] on March 29, 2008, and began producing her music as Bethany Barnard from that date.
==Childhood==
Dillon’s musical career began at the young age of 12, recording an independent album (Vulnerable) that ended up in the hands of ] executive Brad O’Donnell.


== Childhood and early education==
==First album==
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Her self-titled debut album, released in ], was the highest selling female solo debut album for the year and attracted ] nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. The radio friendly ''All I Need'' reached the coveted number one position on the US charts <ref> </ref>.
Bethany Barnard was born Bethany Joy Adelsberger{{cn|date = February 2022}} on September 22, 1988, in ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 28, 2018 |title=Bethany Dillon |url=http://christianmusic.com/bethany_dillon/bethany_dillon.htm |access-date=May 28, 2018 |website=ChristianMusic.com }}</ref> She has said that she started playing guitar at age 10, with ] serving as an early influence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August–October 2006 |title= |url=http://www.ninemagazine.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626175046/http://www.ninemagazine.org/ |archive-date=June 26, 2007 |website=]}}{{full|date = February 2022}}</ref>


==Music career== == Music career ==
] ceremony at ] in 2009.]]
Despite a heavy touring schedule, Dillon released her second album titled ''Imagination'' in ] – the CD which prompted ] to label her as the ‘future’ of contemporary Christian music.
Dillon's musical career began at age 13, ca. 2001, with the recording an independent album, ''Vulnerable'', that ended up in the hands of ] executive Brad O'Donnell.{{cn|date = February 2022}} Reporting from the time says that audiences connected with her first record almost immediately, and result being several hit singles, and multiple Dove nomination.{{cn|date = February 2022}} As well, the album received critical acclaim,{{cn|date = February 2022}} and "an exponentially increasing grassroots fan base that propelled her career forward in great leaps".{{cite quote|date = February 2022}} Her self-titled debut album, released in 2004, was the highest selling female solo debut album for the year, and attracted ] nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year.{{cn|date = February 2022}} The radio single ''All I Need'' reached the number one position on the U.S. charts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 25, 2013 |title=Bethany Dillon |url=http://www.last.fm/music/Bethany+Dillon |website=]}}{{full|date = February 2022}}</ref>


She released her second album, ''Imagination'', in August 2005.<ref name="Top40Charts">{{Cite web |date=January 8, 2005 |title=Bethany Dillon Graces Cover Of August '05 CCM Magazine |url=http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=16418 |access-date=February 12, 2022 |website=Top40-Charts.com |format=marketing press release}}</ref>{{better source|date = February 2022}} The CD prompted '']''{{full|date = February 2022}} to label her as "the future of Christian music".<ref name=Top40Charts/><ref name="ImaginationTracklist">{{Cite web |date=February 27, 2008 |title= Bethany Dillon |url=http://www.rhapsody.com/bethanydillon |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227014701/http://www.rhapsody.com/bethanydillon |archive-date=February 27, 2008 |access-date=February 12, 2022 |website=Rhapsody.com |format=artist tracklist |quote= The cover of the August 2005 issue of CCM magazine called Dillon 'the future of Christian music.' Before that, she was dubbed 'the next Amy Grant' based on her soft folk debut...}}</ref>{{better source|date = February 2022}}<!--Needed is the CCM magazine citation, not press-releases (which is commercial, non-independent online content) or stray side-bar, incomplete annotations of web pages whose purpose is something else that to relay factual content.-->
Ed Cash teamed up with Dillon yet again to produce an eleven track album, all of which was written or co-written by Dillon.


Dillon appears on the ''Music inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia'' soundtrack, singing "Hero". One track from '']''. The song "Dreamer", is featured in the film '']''. A music video was created for this song, using clips from the film. Dillon appears on the '']'' soundtrack of 2005, singing "Hero".{{cn|date = February 2022}} One track from '']'', entitled "Dreamer", is featured in the end credits for the ], starring ] and ]).{{cn|date = February 2022}} A music video was created for this song, using clips from the film.{{cn|date = February 2022}}


GMA's 2005 Producer of the Year, ],<ref name = CBN/> teamed up with Dillon to co-produce an eleven-track album, all of which were written or co-written by Dillon; the result was her 2007 album, '']'' released on April 3.{{cn|date = February 2022}} As described by Dillon,<blockquote>Waking Up is the most joyful record I’ve made... even though it revolves around themes of brokenness and this feeling of being really, really small in the presence of God. When the Lord is growing something in me, it feels like a lot of things are dying—because they really are. And when the Lord is making things soft and vulnerable in me, it's really painful. But even so, I think this is the freest sounding project I’ve created.<ref name="CBN">{{Cite web |date=February 12, 2022 |title=Adult Contemporary / Bethany Dillon / Sparrow Records |url=https://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/artists/dillon_bethany.aspx?mobile=false&u=1 |access-date=February 12, 2022 |website=] |publisher=The ], Inc. |location=Virginia Beach, Va. |quote='Waking Up is the most joyful record I’ve made,' Bethany explains, 'even though it revolves around themes of brokenness and this feeling of being really, really small in the presence of God. When the Lord is growing something in me, it feels like a lot of things are dying—because they really are. And when the Lord is making things soft and vulnerable in me, it's really painful. But even so, I think this is the freest sounding project I’ve created.' / Influenced for years by penetrating and poetic writers like Rich Mullins, Keith Green, and Sara Groves, Bethany has tended to gravitate toward themes that require a measure of courage and open-heartedness to explore. Co-produced by GMA's 2005 Producer of the Year Ed Cash, as well as Will Hunt and John Alagia (John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band), Waking Up embraces big questions of suffering, barrenness, vulnerability, romance, and faithfulness. Like the writers Bethany has modeled herself after, she proves herself willing to live and create in that place of ambivalent tension that inevitably comes from refusing to settle for easy, feel-good answers. And yet, like the psalmist, Bethany has a penchant for finding the redemption in the midst of the pain.}}</ref><ref name="ERG">{{Cite web |date=February 12, 2022 |title=The Entertainment Booking Resource: Bethany Dillon |url=https://www.entertainmentrg.com/ArtistPage.aspx?ArtistName=Bethany_Dillon |access-date=February 12, 2022 |website=EntertainmentRG.com |publisher=Entertainment Resource Group, Inc. |location=Las Vegas, Nevada}}</ref></blockquote>Joining Ed Cash in the co-production of ''Waking Up'' were ] and ] (an associate of ] and ]).<ref name = CBN/> As '']'' explains,<blockquote>Influenced for years by penetrating and poetic writers like Rich Mullins, Keith Green, and Sara Groves, Bethany has tended to gravitate toward themes that require a measure of courage and open-heartedness to explore... Waking Up embraces big questions of suffering, barrenness, vulnerability, romance, and faithfulness. Like the writers Bethany has modeled herself after, she proves herself willing to live and create in that place of ambivalent tension that inevitably comes from refusing to settle for easy, feel-good answers. And yet, like the psalmist, Bethany has a penchant for finding the redemption in the midst of the pain.<ref name = CBN/></blockquote>
Dillon’s sister Kate is married to fellow ] recording artist ].


Dillon's "When You Love Someone" appears as a track on the film soundtrack album, '']''.<ref name="AllMusic">{{Cite web |last=Phares |first=Heather |date=February 13, 2007 |title=Original Soundtrack / Bridge to Terabithia |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/bridge-to-terabithia-mw0000567812 |access-date=February 12, 2022 |publisher=]}}</ref> In late 2007, Dillon and ] opened with ] on his ''Live in the Moment Tour''.{{cn|date = February 2022}}
Dillon's most recent album, entitled '']'', was released on ], ].


On March 29, 2008, Dillon wed ] of ] in ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Kevin |date=August 1, 2007 |title=Bethany Dillon Engaged to Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/bethany-dillon-engaged-to-shane-barnard-of-shane-shane-28705/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722014200/http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070801/28705_Bethany_Dillon_Engaged_to_Shane_Barnard_of_Shane_&_Shane.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |access-date=May 30, 2018 |website=]}}</ref> In 2016, Dillon and Barnard released the song "Covenant", alongside a fundraising campaign to support a new, independent studio effort and recording to appear in 2017 under her new stage name, Bethany Barnard.{{cn|date = February 2022}}<!--Giving the YouTube link is not sufficient; it does not support the content of the sentence.-->
==Discography==
<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnard |first=Bethany |date=September 27, 2016 |title=Covenant |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsZQbjYER4 |access-date=February 12, 2022 |via=]}}</ref> On February 10, 2017, she independently released ''A Better Word''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tremaine |first=Chase |date=March 13, 2017 |title=JFH Music Review: Bethany Barnard, A Better Word |url=http://jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/ABetterWord.asp |access-date=February 12, 2022 |website=JesusFreakHideout.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith, Christopher |date=March 18, 2017 |title=JFH Staff's Second Opinion: Bethany Barnard, A Better Word |url=http://jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/ABetterWord.asp |access-date=February 12, 2022 |website=JesusFreakHideout.com}}</ref>
*'']'' (2004)
*'']'' (2005)
*'']'' (2007)


===EP's=== == Discography ==

=== Albums ===

* '']'' (2004)
* '']'' (2005)
* '']'' (2007)
* '']'' (2008)
* '']'' (with Matt Hammitt) (2008)
* '']'' (2009)
* ''A Better Word'' (2017)
* ''All My Questions'' (2021)

=== EPs ===


{| border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" {| border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"
|-
|]
|align="left"|'''''The Beautiful Sessions''''' <small>(released February 11, 2004)</small>
Track listing:
#Beautiful
#Move Forward
#Beautiful (Acoustic)
#Great Big Mystery (Acoustic)
#For My Love (Acoustic)
#Revolutionaries (Acoustic)
|- |-
| align="left"|''The Beautiful Sessions'' <small>(released February 11, 2004)</small>
|]
&nbsp; &nbsp; Track listing:
|align="left"|'''''Connect Sets''''' <small>(released December 13, 2005)</small>

Track listing:
# "Beautiful"
#All That I Can Do
# "Move Forward"
#Hallelujah
#Beautiful # "Beautiful (Acoustic)"
# "Great Big Mystery (Acoustic)"
# "For My Love (Acoustic)"
# "Revolutionaries (Acoustic)"

|- |-
| align="left"|''Connect Sets'' <small>(released December 13, 2005)</small>
|]
&nbsp; &nbsp; Track listing:
|align="left"|'''''Top Five Hits: Bethany Dillon''''' <small>(released December 5, 2006)</small>

Track listing:
#All I Need # "All That I Can Do"
# "Hallelujah"
#Beautiful
# "Beautiful"
#Hero

#Dreamer
#Hallelujah
|- |-
| align="left"|''Top Five Hits: Bethany Dillon'' <small>(released December 5, 2006)</small>
&nbsp; &nbsp; Track listing:

# "All I Need"
# "Beautiful"
# "Hero"
# "Dreamer"
# "Hallelujah"

|-
| align="left"|''To Those Who Wait'' <small>(released March 16, 2012)</small>
&nbsp; &nbsp; Track listing:

# "Satisfy (Tappety Intro)"
# "Satisfy (live)"
# "To Those Who Wait (live)"
# "You're the Best Song (live)"
# "You Did Not Have a Home (live)"

|}

=== Singles ===

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style=text-align:center;
|+ List of singles, with selected chart positions
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;" | Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Year
! scope="col" colspan="2" | Peak chart positions
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Album
|-
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! scope="col" style="width:12em;font-size:100%;"| ]<br /><ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Bethany Dillon Christian Songs chart |url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/281461/bethany-dillon/chart?f=355 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623174803/http://www.billboard.com/artist/281461/bethany-dillon/chart?f=355 |archive-date=June 23, 2014 |access-date=October 27, 2013 |magazine=]}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:12em;font-size:100%;"| ]<br /><ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Bethany Dillon Adult Contemporary chart |url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/281461/bethany-dillon/chart?f=341 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625000320/http://www.billboard.com/artist/281461/bethany-dillon/chart?f=341 |archive-date=June 25, 2014 |access-date=October 27, 2013 |magazine=]}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row"| "All I Need"
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:left;"|2004
| 4
| —
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:left" |'']''
|-
! scope="row"|"Beautiful"
| 7
| —
|-
! scope="row"|]
| 27
| —
|-
! scope="row"|"]" <small>(digital only)</small>
| 14
| —
| style="text-align:left" | —
|-
! scope="row"|"]"
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|2005
| —
| —
| style="text-align:left" | '']''
|-
! scope="row"|"All That I Can Do"
| 24
| —
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:left" | '']''
|-
! scope="row"|"Hallelujah"
| 28
| —
|-
! scope="row"|"Dreamer"
| 2006
| 31
| 39
|-
! scope="row"|"The Kingdom"
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:left;"|2007
| —
| —
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:left" | '']''
|-
! scope="row"|"Let Your Light Shine"
| —
| —
|-
! scope="row"|"When You Love Someone"
| 28
| —
| '']''
|-
! scope="row"|"Everyone to Know"
| 2009
| 44
| —
| style="text-align:left" |'']''
|}

=== Contributions ===

* 2004 - ''Simply Great Music'' - "Great Big Mystery" <small> (from ''Bethany Dillon'')</small>
* 2004 - '']'' - "All I Need" <small> (from ''Bethany Dillon'')</small>
* 2005 - ''Every Young Woman's Battle'' - "Exodus (Faithful)" <small> (from ''Bethany Dillon'')</small>
* 2005 - '']'' - "Hero"
* 2005 - '']'' - "All That I Can Do" <small> (from ''Imagination'')</small>
* 2005 - '']'' - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
* 2005 - ''Night of Joy 2005'' - "Vagabond" <small> (from ''Imagination'')</small>
* 2006 - ''Pursue Me'' - Jason Holdridge - "Word of Fire," "Psalm 29," "The Story"
* 2006 - ''Unexpected Gifts: 12 New Sounds of Christmas'' - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
* 2006 - '']'' - "Holy Is The Lord"
* 2006 - ''Sing Over Me: Worship Songs and Lullabies'' - "How Great Is Our God", "Sing Over Me" (with ]), "Unwavering"
* 2007 - '']'' - "]" (with ])
* 2007 - '']'' - "]" <small> (from ''Waking Up'')</small>
* 2007 - ''WOW Hymns'' - "All Creatures of Our God And King" (with ])
* 2007 - ''Worship Together Favorites'' - "Holy is the Lord"
* 2008 - ''The Daraja Children's Choir of Africa'' - "Everlasting God"
* 2009 - ''You'll Be Whole'' - Lindsey Kane - "It Is Well" duet with Lindsey Kane
* 2009 - ''Glory Revealed II: The Word of God in Worship'' - "Never" with Shawn Lewis
* 2011 - ''Lift Up the Light'' - Oaks Worship - "I Want Your Presence"
* 2011 - ''The Music of a Movement'' (Reach Records) - "You Alone" Tedashii ft. Bethany Dillon
* 2013 - ''War In the Waiting'' - Oaks Worship - "]"

== Awards ==

=== GMA Dove Awards ===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:60px;"| Year
! Award
! Result
|-

!rowspan="3"| ]
| New Artist of the Year
| {{nom}}
|-
| Female Vocalist of the Year
| {{nom}}
|-
| Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year ('']'')
| {{nom}}
|-

!| ]
| Female Vocalist of the Year
| {{nom}}<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707074958/http://christianmusic.about.com/od/doves/a/06gmanoms.htm |date=July 7, 2011 }}</ref>
|} |}


===Singles=== == References ==
{{reflist}}
*2004 - All I Need
*2004 - Beautiful
*2004 - Lead Me On
*2004 - O Come, O Come Emmanuel <small>(digital only)</small>
*2005 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
*2005 - All That I Can Do
*2005 - Hallelujah
*2006 - Dreamer
*2007 - The Kingdom


== External links ==
===Contributions===
*2004 - Simply Great Music - "Great Big Mystery" <small> (from ''Bethany Dillon'')</small>
*2004 - ] - "All I Need" <small> (from ''Bethany Dillon'')</small>
*2005 - Every Young Woman's Battle - "Exodus (Faithful)" <small> (from ''Bethany Dillon'')</small>
*2005 - ] - "Hero"
*2005 - ] - "All That I Can Do" <small> (from ''Imagination'')</small>
*2005 - ] - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
*2005 - Night of Joy 2005 - "Vagabond" <small> (from ''Imagination'')</small>
*2006 - ] - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
*2006 - ] - "Holy Is The Lord"
*2006 - ] - "How Great Is Our God", "Sing Over Me" (with Nichole Nordeman), "Unwavering"
*2007 - ] - "All Creatures Of Our God And King" (with ])
*2007 - ] - "When You Love Someone"
*2007 - WOW Hymns - "All Creatures Of Our God And King" (with ])


* {{Official website|https://bethanybarnard.com/}}
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Bethany Dillon
Background information
Also known asBethany Barnard
Born (1988-09-22) September 22, 1988 (age 36)
Bellefontaine, Ohio
GenresCCM, acoustic
LabelsSparrow
Websitebethanybarnard.com
Musical artist

Bethany Dillon (born September 22, 1988), known since 2008 by her married name, Bethany Barnard, is a Contemporary Christian music artist. Her self-titled 2004 debut album was the highest selling female solo debut for that year, and attracted Gospel Music Association nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. Her album Waking Up (2007) included production assistance of the GMA's 2005 Producer of the Year, Ed Cash, as well Will Hunt and John Alagia. Her sixth and seventh albums were Stop & Listen (2009) and A Better Word (2017).

Barnard's work has appeared on the soundtrack albums of several feature films, including the single "Hero" in Dreamer (2005, from her second album, Imagination of that year), as well as singles for the Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Bridge to Terabithia (2007). Dillon wed Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane on March 29, 2008, and began producing her music as Bethany Barnard from that date.

Childhood and early education

This section needs expansion with: standard content for this section, taken from reliable sources, fully presented. You can help by adding to it. (February 2022)

Bethany Barnard was born Bethany Joy Adelsberger on September 22, 1988, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. She has said that she started playing guitar at age 10, with Jennifer Knapp serving as an early influence.

Music career

Dillon performs at a Patriot Day ceremony at Fort Gillem in 2009.

Dillon's musical career began at age 13, ca. 2001, with the recording an independent album, Vulnerable, that ended up in the hands of EMI executive Brad O'Donnell. Reporting from the time says that audiences connected with her first record almost immediately, and result being several hit singles, and multiple Dove nomination. As well, the album received critical acclaim, and "an exponentially increasing grassroots fan base that propelled her career forward in great leaps". Her self-titled debut album, released in 2004, was the highest selling female solo debut album for the year, and attracted GMA nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. The radio single All I Need reached the number one position on the U.S. charts.

She released her second album, Imagination, in August 2005. The CD prompted CCM Magazine to label her as "the future of Christian music".

Dillon appears on the Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe soundtrack of 2005, singing "Hero". One track from Imagination, entitled "Dreamer", is featured in the end credits for the 2005 film of the same name, starring Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning). A music video was created for this song, using clips from the film.

GMA's 2005 Producer of the Year, Ed Cash, teamed up with Dillon to co-produce an eleven-track album, all of which were written or co-written by Dillon; the result was her 2007 album, Waking Up released on April 3. As described by Dillon,

Waking Up is the most joyful record I’ve made... even though it revolves around themes of brokenness and this feeling of being really, really small in the presence of God. When the Lord is growing something in me, it feels like a lot of things are dying—because they really are. And when the Lord is making things soft and vulnerable in me, it's really painful. But even so, I think this is the freest sounding project I’ve created.

Joining Ed Cash in the co-production of Waking Up were Will Hunt and John Alagia (an associate of John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band). As CBN.com explains,

Influenced for years by penetrating and poetic writers like Rich Mullins, Keith Green, and Sara Groves, Bethany has tended to gravitate toward themes that require a measure of courage and open-heartedness to explore... Waking Up embraces big questions of suffering, barrenness, vulnerability, romance, and faithfulness. Like the writers Bethany has modeled herself after, she proves herself willing to live and create in that place of ambivalent tension that inevitably comes from refusing to settle for easy, feel-good answers. And yet, like the psalmist, Bethany has a penchant for finding the redemption in the midst of the pain.

Dillon's "When You Love Someone" appears as a track on the film soundtrack album, Music from and Inspired by Bridge to Terabithia. In late 2007, Dillon and Sanctus Real opened with Steven Curtis Chapman on his Live in the Moment Tour.

On March 29, 2008, Dillon wed Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane in Xenia, Ohio. In 2016, Dillon and Barnard released the song "Covenant", alongside a fundraising campaign to support a new, independent studio effort and recording to appear in 2017 under her new stage name, Bethany Barnard. On February 10, 2017, she independently released A Better Word.

Discography

Albums

EPs

The Beautiful Sessions (released February 11, 2004)

    Track listing:

  1. "Beautiful"
  2. "Move Forward"
  3. "Beautiful (Acoustic)"
  4. "Great Big Mystery (Acoustic)"
  5. "For My Love (Acoustic)"
  6. "Revolutionaries (Acoustic)"
Connect Sets (released December 13, 2005)

    Track listing:

  1. "All That I Can Do"
  2. "Hallelujah"
  3. "Beautiful"
Top Five Hits: Bethany Dillon (released December 5, 2006)

    Track listing:

  1. "All I Need"
  2. "Beautiful"
  3. "Hero"
  4. "Dreamer"
  5. "Hallelujah"
To Those Who Wait (released March 16, 2012)

    Track listing:

  1. "Satisfy (Tappety Intro)"
  2. "Satisfy (live)"
  3. "To Those Who Wait (live)"
  4. "You're the Best Song (live)"
  5. "You Did Not Have a Home (live)"

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US Christian Songs
 US AC
"All I Need" 2004 4 — Bethany Dillon
"Beautiful" 7 —
"Lead Me On" 27 —
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel" (digital only) 14 — —
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" 2005 — — WOW Christmas: Green
"All That I Can Do" 24 — Imagination
"Hallelujah" 28 —
"Dreamer" 2006 31 39
"The Kingdom" 2007 — — Waking Up
"Let Your Light Shine" — —
"When You Love Someone" 28 — Music from and Inspired by Bridge to Terabithia
"Everyone to Know" 2009 44 — Stop & Listen

Contributions

Awards

GMA Dove Awards

Year Award Result
2005 New Artist of the Year Nominated
Female Vocalist of the Year Nominated
Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year (Bethany Dillon) Nominated
2006 Female Vocalist of the Year Nominated

References

  1. "Bethany Dillon [Artist Profile]". ChristianMusic.com . May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  2. "[Bethany Dillon article]". niNe. magazine. August–October 2006. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007.
  3. "Bethany Dillon [Artist Profile]". Last.fm. September 25, 2013.
  4. ^ "Bethany Dillon Graces Cover Of August '05 CCM Magazine" (marketing press release). Top40-Charts.com. January 8, 2005. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  5. "[Artist Channel] Bethany Dillon". Rhapsody.com. February 27, 2008. Archived from the original (artist tracklist) on February 27, 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2022. The cover of the August 2005 issue of CCM magazine called Dillon 'the future of Christian music.' Before that, she was dubbed 'the next Amy Grant' based on her soft folk debut...
  6. ^ "Adult Contemporary / Bethany Dillon / Sparrow Records [Artist Profile]". CBN.com. Virginia Beach, Va.: The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc. February 12, 2022. Retrieved February 12, 2022. 'Waking Up is the most joyful record I've made,' Bethany explains, 'even though it revolves around themes of brokenness and this feeling of being really, really small in the presence of God. When the Lord is growing something in me, it feels like a lot of things are dying—because they really are. And when the Lord is making things soft and vulnerable in me, it's really painful. But even so, I think this is the freest sounding project I've created.' / Influenced for years by penetrating and poetic writers like Rich Mullins, Keith Green, and Sara Groves, Bethany has tended to gravitate toward themes that require a measure of courage and open-heartedness to explore. Co-produced by GMA's 2005 Producer of the Year Ed Cash, as well as Will Hunt and John Alagia (John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band), Waking Up embraces big questions of suffering, barrenness, vulnerability, romance, and faithfulness. Like the writers Bethany has modeled herself after, she proves herself willing to live and create in that place of ambivalent tension that inevitably comes from refusing to settle for easy, feel-good answers. And yet, like the psalmist, Bethany has a penchant for finding the redemption in the midst of the pain.
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  8. Phares, Heather (February 13, 2007). "Original Soundtrack / Bridge to Terabithia". AllMusic. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  9. Jackson, Kevin (August 1, 2007). "Bethany Dillon Engaged to Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane". The Christian Post. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  10. Barnard, Bethany (September 27, 2016). "Covenant". Retrieved February 12, 2022 – via YouTube.
  11. Tremaine, Chase (March 13, 2017). "JFH Music Review: Bethany Barnard, A Better Word". JesusFreakHideout.com. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  12. Smith, Christopher (March 18, 2017). "JFH Staff's Second Opinion: Bethany Barnard, A Better Word". JesusFreakHideout.com. Retrieved February 12, 2022.
  13. "Bethany Dillon Christian Songs chart". Billboard. Archived from the original on June 23, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  14. "Bethany Dillon Adult Contemporary chart". Billboard. Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  15. 37th Annual GMA Awards Nominations and Winners Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

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