Beautiful Love
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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.
The Afters
The Afters are a Christian rock band founded by Joshua Havens and Matt Fuqua. Havens and Fuqua first worked together in a Starbucks coffee shop in Mesquite, Texas, where they played for customers, before deciding to form a band. They added Brad Wigg and Marc Dodd, who were also employed at the same...
, I Wish We All Could Win
I Wish We All Could Win
I Wish We All Could Win is the debut album from the Christian rock band The Afters. The album contains their Dove Award-nominated hit single "Beautiful Love". The album is notable for having two tracks on it used as theme songs...
. The song was later used by MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
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 & Ocean8th & Ocean8th & Ocean is an American reality series about a group of models living in Miami, Florida that premiered on MTV on March 7, 2006. The series aired for ten episodes, ending its run on May 9, 2006. The creators of 8th & Ocean are also responsible for Laguna Beach, a show also airing on MTV...
prompted a six-week surge in which Beautiful Love was downloaded 90,000 times.- Nielsen SoundScanNielsen SoundScanNielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
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 iTunesITunes StoreThe iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
top-100 downloaded songs chart (peaking at #14)
- Nielsen SoundScan
Charts
- Peaked on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
chart at #55 - Peaked on the Billboard Pop 100Pop 100The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...
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.
- In 2005, the song won the mtvUMtvUmtvU is a division of Viacom's MTV Networks which produces a 24-hour television channel that is available on more than 750 college and university campuses across the United States, as well as several digital cable packages...
Award for Best Streaming Video.
Television
- "Beautiful Love" was used as the theme song for the MTV reality series 8th & Ocean8th & Ocean8th & Ocean is an American reality series about a group of models living in Miami, Florida that premiered on MTV on March 7, 2006. The series aired for ten episodes, ending its run on May 9, 2006. The creators of 8th & Ocean are also responsible for Laguna Beach, a show also airing on MTV...
. - Song appeared in "Just My Luck".