{"id":670,"date":"2016-09-27T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/?p=670"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:02:52","slug":"free-song-download-of-greater-by-mercyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2016\/09\/free-song-download-of-greater-by-mercyme.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Song Download of &#8216;Greater&#8217; by MercyMe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Celebrating the the success of <i>Welcome To The New<\/i>, <b>GRAMMY\u00ae nominated band MercyMe<\/b>\u00a0has announced\u00a0an <b>exclusive two week <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/sjc3z\/snzv8b\/44kl8j\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>free download<\/b><\/span><\/a> of their song\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/sjc3z\/snzv8b\/kxll8j\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>\u201cGreater,\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0available through Oct. 9 <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/freeccm.com\/mercymegreater\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">at FreeCCM.com<\/a>. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-671\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/720\/2016\/09\/mercyme-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"mercyme\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\">The song is the second single from the band\u2019s 2014 album and has spent 16 weeks at\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">No. 1 on the Billboard National Christian Audience chart. The fourth single from the album \u201cDear Younger Me\u201d is proving to be another hit, currently at<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0No. 2 on the Billboard AC Monitored Chart. The album is currently on sale for $5.99 for a limited time at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/sjc3z\/snzv8b\/waol8j\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/sjc3z\/snzv8b\/c3ol8j\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In this video, singer-songwriter Bart Millard talks about the story behind the song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Kpc_lb2HH8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating the the success of Welcome To The New, GRAMMY\u00ae nominated band MercyMe\u00a0has announced\u00a0an exclusive two week free download of their song\u00a0\u00a0\u201cGreater,\u201d\u00a0available through Oct. 9 at FreeCCM.com. \u00a0The song is the second single from the band\u2019s 2014 album and has spent 16 weeks at\u00a0No. 1 on the Billboard National Christian Audience chart. The fourth single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2815,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,53,54,52,55],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-fair-trade","tag-free-music","tag-greater","tag-mercyme","tag-welcome-to-the-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free Song Download of &#039;Greater&#039; by MercyMe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Celebrating the the success of Welcome To The New, GRAMMY\u00ae nominated band MercyMe\u00a0has announced\u00a0an exclusive two week free download of their\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/reelfaith\/2016\/09\/free-song-download-of-greater-by-mercyme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free Song Download of &#039;Greater&#039; 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