CCM
CCM stands for contemporary Christian music, pop and rock styled music with lyrics about Christian faith.
It began in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s, when young believers in the Jesus movement set faith lyrics to folk and rock, and it became an industry with its own labels, charts and radio stations. The sound tracks mainstream pop closely: polished production, big choruses and clear, uplifting lyrics. CCM is aimed at everyday listening, which separates it from worship music written for church services and from gospel.
Artists it is known for: Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, MercyMe, Lauren Daigle.
- Family
- Christian & Gospel
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 1960s
- Also called
- contemporary christian music, contemporary christian
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have ccm among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
CCM artists
Elevation Worship
Bethel Music
ELEVATION RHYTHM
Hillsong Worship
Hillsong UNITED
Brandon Lake
Phil Wickham
SEU Worship
Passion
for KING & COUNTRY
The ccm artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.