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New Christian Music Releases For Friday, December 1st, 2023 (Possibly the last New Music Overview that we can publish in this form)

Here are the new Christian Music releases that we have gathered for you over the past week. This overview contains releases in the genres: Christian Contemporary Music (CCM), Christian EDM (CEDM), and Gospel. 

At the end of this post, you can find links to our playlists with recent releases. Upcoming Thursday we will share an overview of the most popular songs that were released today (based on the number of streams).

We're not sure how long we'll be able to keep publishing this overview...

Spotify recently laid off a large number of their employees, including a data scientist who was publishing the extracts that we use as a source for our reviews every Friday. It is unclear whether or not this service will continue. 
 

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(The song titles on our webpage are clickable and open the album / song on Spotify.)
 

 
 

New Christian Music releases in the categories Instrumental, CCM Dutch, CCM German, and CCM Italian:


(The song titles in this table are also clickable and open the album / song on Spotify.)
 


You can listen to the English CCM, CEDM, and Gospel music releases in the following playlists. 

We have quite a few weekly refreshed playlists for your listening pleasure! Check out our Christian playlists on: https://www.christiandance.eu/p/playlists.html


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