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By Michaela Gordoni
Forrest Frank is now bigger than Shane Gillis and Tame Impala.
Frank’s “Jesus Generation Tour” debuted this week at No. 5 on Pollstar’s LIVE75 chart, which ranks tours across the globe by average tickets sold per show, The Christian Post reported.
The Christian singer has an average gross of $1.46 million per show. His largest audience was on June 15 at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which had 27,365 attendees.
“As long as I’m putting the truth of the Gospel in the songs, and if I can recognize the Holy Spirit in the music, then I know that He’s going to be doing the work because I don’t put any pressure on it,” Frank told The Christian Post in 2024.
His album, Child of God II, was No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart and reached No. 12 on the all-genre Billboard 200.
“Jesus is my Savior, and I’m alive when I worship Him,” he said. “Once I started making Christian music and worshiping Him, going back to making pop music is like air.”
“There’s no substance in it for me personally. The fact that I get to wake up every day and worship Jesus and then just record it, and other people get to worship Jesus, too, is so fulfilling and so life-giving, and I’m here to stay,” Frank continued.
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According to Rate Your Seats, Frank’s ticket prices last year averaged at $170 per ticket. Some say that’s a high price to worship God, and others are critical of the artist making millions of dollars under God’s banner.
Last year, Frank responded to this when he stated he will never attend another awards show. He doesn’t want worldly accolades for his singing — because it’s all for God.
“I’m convicted, personally, that a line that I can draw is that I will not receive a trophy for something that is from Jesus and for Jesus, and I was wrestling with this last year,” Frank said on social media the day before an awards show. “I feel a conviction to go even a step further and say, ‘I don’t know if I even want to step on the stage — I don’t know if I want to step in the room.’ So I have decided to take a stance of non-participation.”
Another artist, Jelly Roll, questioned him for his stance.
“Won’t receive trophy for something from Jesus for Jesus but will take the profits from something from Jesus for Jesus… This is an interesting take — I dig it, how do you think this compares as profiting from the same music,” Jelly Roll commented. “I love that you said, ‘I don’t want to get a trophy for something that’s from Jesus for Jesus’ which is awesome — but also make MILLIONS of dollars doing that same thing that is From Jesus for Jesus.”
Frank said he’s spent years mulling over this question. It kept him from making Christian music for years.
“I didn’t want to make a business out of Jesus, and so I actually didn’t participate,” he said. “And then one day, I felt like God was telling me to release — I’ll call it my quiet time song — and I did. And here’s the thing, legally, it was self-produced and self-written, so legally that money comes to me.”
He said what he does with that money — including how he donates it — is no one’s business and let Jelly Roll know he is there for him if he has more questions.
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