Essential Records Competitors

Capitol Christian Music Group is the world’s leading Christian Music company and market leader in recorded music, distribution, and music publishing. Part of Universal Music’s Capitol Music Group, Capitol Christian Music Group operates several divisions including Capitol CMG Label Group (Sparrow Records, ForeFront Records, Credential Recordings, sixstepsrecords, Hillsong), EMI Gospel, Capitol Christian Distribution and Capitol CMG Publishing. Led by President and CEO Bill Hearn and a strong executive team of long-time Christian and Gospel music veterans, Capitol Christian Music Group is characterized by a strong commitment to artists and songwriters, one another, our customer and community service.

Integrity Music is a recording and publishing label with offices in Franklin, Tennessee (just south of Nashville in the US) and Eastbourne, East Sussex (UK). We are part of the David C Cook ministry, a nonprofit provider of Christ-centered resources serving the global Church. Our staff, writers, and worship artists are committed to taking songs of substance to the local Churches globally. These songs include “Great Are You Lord,” “Your Great Name,” “Revelation Song,” “Open The Eyes Of My Heart,” “I Am Free”, the No. 1 radio hit “We Believe” (Newsboys), “In Christ Alone”, “10,000 Reasons”, “Everlasting God”, “Here I Am To Worship”, “Blessed Be You Name”, “I Could Sing of Your Love Forever”, “Spirit Break Out”, “Guardian”, “Waiting Here For You”, “God’s Great Dance Floor”, “The Lion & The Lamb”, “Soul On Fire” & many more. Our music is distributed in over 200 countries and our songs have been translated and recorded in numerous languages, including Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Hindi. Proceeds from the sale of Integrity’s (and David C Cook’s) products are combined with one hundred percent of charitable donations to fund ministry projects with international congregations and partners. Together, we join in co-mission to create, translate, and distribute life-transforming resources.

"We launched a decade ago,” recalls Centricity Music VP of A&R John Mays, “when the music industry as we knew it was crumbling. The established labels—and I had just come out of one—were trying to figure out how to get ahead of the cataclysmic changes that were shattering the old business models. In hindsight, it was probably not the best time for someone to launch a new label. It was almost certainly not the best time to launch a new label that would be built from the ground up on a vision for relationship and patient, long-term, artist development. Not according to the conventional wisdom, anyway.” Now, ten years later, Centricity has grown into a lean and vibrant, three-pronged indie company with label, music publishing, and management divisions that operate cooperatively but autonomously under the same roof. Though they still boast one of the smallest artist rosters and highest staff-to-artist ratios in the business, they’ve fought hard to become a serious industry contender. The company is home to an impressive roster of artists and songwriters including, GRAMMY award winner Seth Mosley, Lauren Daigle, Jason Gray, Jordan Feliz, Unspoken, Aaron Shust, Jonny Diaz, Carrollton, JJ Weeks, and more.