How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
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How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
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#2Dear World,
we're sorry
- Australia
(well SOME of us are)
Re: How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
#3Hillsong music is simple, catchy, and easy to play. If a teenager can pick up a guitar and lead their friends to sing along with easy lyrics, it'll be a hit.
A satirical take on this is How to Write a Worship Song (In 5 Minutes or Less).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhYuA0Cz8ls
Translations of Hillsong music into other languages are also popular. 約書亞樂團 Joshuaband translate some songs into Chinese, and it was a huge help for me learning Mandarin. I also know about illegal translations of a lot more songs, in Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hungarian. It's illegal because CCLI doesn't operate in those countries, so there's no way to license the song translations officially. Email me if you want to know where to get the chords/PPT/OpenSong/sheet music/MP3s.
For other languages, there's Hillsong Global Project for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Korean, Indonesian, French, and Chinese.
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#5Religion has always been good business.
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#6If you read anxiously through the whole article like I did thinking: "Yeah I get it but what are the numbers?"
From 2015 article: "The Hillsong empire they founded (she, too, is a senior pastor) pulled in tax-free revenues of nearly $80 million in Australia last year and more than $100 million internationally."
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/inside-the-hillsong-churchs...
Re: How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
#7Religion has always been good business.
Isn't that a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition?
Re: How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
#8If you read anxiously through the whole article like I did thinking: "Yeah I get it but what are the numbers?" From 2015 article: "The Hillsong empire they founded (she, too, is a senior pastor) pulled in tax-free revenues of nearly $80 million in Australia last year and more than $100 million internationally." https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/inside-the-hillsong-churchs...
Wait, tax-free? Surely this is a for-profit business, not a "church".
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#9My sister's involved with Hillsong. A scam if ever I saw one. I no longer have anything to do with her.
Re: How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry
#10If you read anxiously through the whole article like I did thinking: "Yeah I get it but what are the numbers?" From 2015 article: "The Hillsong empire they founded (she, too, is a senior pastor) pulled in tax-free revenues of nearly $80 million in Australia last year and more than $100 million internationally." https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/inside-the-hillsong-churchs...
Wait, tax-free? Surely this is a for-profit business, not a "church".
And their status is not likely to change while one of their flock is the Prime Minister.