Singer-songwriter and worship leader Nia Allen places her first leader on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart (dated May 1), as “Wait (2020),” its first entry on the chart, jumps from No. 4 to No. 1. In the tracking week ending April 25, it gained 14% in plays, according to MRC data.
“Wait” is taken from Allen’s six-song EP, Every Nation, released last June. She wrote the song with her father, Milton Ruffin.
“I wrote ‘Wait’ many years ago,” Allen told Billboard. “I was in the middle of a decision and I didn’t know what to do. I was walking down the street, and these lyrics came to me: ‘I’m gonna wait until I hear from you… I’m gonna wait until you see me.’ It’s a song that I’ve definitely had to live with. I’ve been singing it for years, and now the world is exposed to it. So for it to be No. 1 on Billboard is a huge honor. I’m excited, grateful and humbled all at the same time.”
Allen adds, “We are still in the midst of a pandemic, and people are hurting and looking for hope. It is my prayer that the lyrics of ‘Wait’ will bring healing and encouragement to all who are in distress and looking for answers.”
“It is my prayer that words bring healing.”
Nia Allen, a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, is currently based in Los Angeles and recently received her Doctorate of Ministry from Azusa Pacific University. She is working on her second album.
“Wait” is the second rookie single by a solo female to lead Gospel Airplay in the span of three weeks, after Jokia’s “Yahweh” topped the chart dated April 17, marking the narrowest gap between No. 1s by women unaccompanied by other acts in the chart’s 16-year history.
The fastest previous turnaround was the five-month, one-week hiatus between Yolanda’s “Be Blessed,” which lasted three weeks from August 2005, and CeCe Winanswhich reigned over two images in January 2006.
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