Maverick City Music

The Atlanta, Georgia based Contemporary Christian music collective known as Maverick City Music coalesced in 2018 out of a desire shared by co-founders Tony Brown and Jonathan Jay to showcase singers and songwriters like Naomi Raine, Brandon Lake, Chandler Moore and other artists from various ethnicities that are not often associated with the CCM scene. A pair of 2019 EPs, Maverick City, Vol. 1 and Maverick City, Vol. 2, each charted on various Christian music-oriented Billboard charts. That set the table for their debut LP, 2020’s Maverick City Vol. 3 Part 1 to go Top 10 on the Top Christian Albums Chart, a feat duplicated by their quickly issued follow-up, Maverick City, Vol. 3 Pt. 2, later that year. Later in 2020, they issued the holiday-themed Maverick City Christmas EP. In 2021, they teamed with another Christian band, Elevation Worship, for the album Old Church Basement. Two singles from that collection, “Jireh” and “Talking to Jesus”, landed in the Top 10 of the Hot Christian Songs Chart, making them to that point the best-performing singles of any in the group’s short history. This success was followed by albums like Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition, Tribl I with Tribl, their second Spanish-language album Venga Tu Reino, and A Very Maverick Christmas, all released later that year. Another collaboration with Tribl titled Tribl Nights Anthologies ensued in 2022, as well as their third Spanish LP Simple Adoración and Kingdom Book One, recorded in collaboration with Kirk Franklin. 2023 found the group as prolific as ever, releasing the 22-track project The Maverick Way Complete, which featured guest spots by Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Bobbi Storm, Travis Greene, Cody Carnes, Wande, and many more. Preceded by the single "Good News" with Todd Galberth, The Maverick Way Complete peaked at number 96 on the Billboard 200. This was followed by The Maverick Way Reimagined in 2024 and a new original EP, Mavhouse, with the gospel hit "Questions".