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Talking to Jesus
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Wikipedia article
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| name = Talking to Jesus
| cover = Talking to Jesus - Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music.jpg
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| type = promo
| artist = Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music featuring Brandon Lake
| album = Old Church Basement
| released =
| recorded = 2021
| genre = Contemporary worship music
| length = 8:29
| label = Elevation Worship
| writer =
* Brandon Lake
* Chris Brown
* Steven Furtick
| producer =
* Chris Brown
* Steven Furtick
* Jason Ingram
* Tony Brown
* Jonathan Jay
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"'Talking to Jesus'" is a song performed by American contemporary worship bands Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music, which features vocals from Brandon Lake. The song was released on April 9, 2021, as a promotional single from their collaborative live album, 'Old Church Basement' (2021). The song was written by Brandon Lake, Chris Brown, and Steven Furtick.
"Talking to Jesus" debuted at No. 9 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart, and at No. 1 on the Hot Gospel Songs chart.
Background
On April 9, 2021, Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music released "Talking to Jesus" featuring Brandon Lake as the second promotional single from their collaborative album, 'Old Church Basement' (2021). "Talking to Jesus" is the follow-up to the first promotional single from the album, "Jireh". The song also marks Brandon Lake's second appearance on an Elevation Worship project, having co-written and featured on the hit single "Graves into Gardens".
Writing and development
Chris Brown of Elevation Worship shared the story about how the song came about, saying
Brown further added that he had difficulty explaining how they fell into a two chord trance that lasted several hours, with Furtick telling stories on the microphone, but that is how the song came about.
Composition
"Talking to Jesus" is composed in the key of B with a tempo of 59 beats per minute, and a musical time signature of .
Commercial performance
"Talking to Jesus" debuted at No. 9 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart and at No. 1 on the Hot Gospel Songs chart, both dated April 22, 2021.} "Talking to Jesus" attracted 2 million streams and 4,000 downloads in the United States in its first week. "Talking to Jesus" is the second Hot Gospel Songs chart-topper for Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music, while being Brandon Lake's first No. 1 entry on the chart. On Hot Christian Songs, it is the eighth top ten entry for Elevation Worship, and the second for Maverick City Music and Lake.
Music videos
On April 9, 2021, Elevation Worship released the official music video of "Talking to Jesus" on their YouTube channel. The video shows Brandon Lake leading the song.
On April 30, 2021, Elevation Worship published the lyric video of the song on YouTube.
Charts
Weekly charts
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"|+ Weekly chart performance for "Talking to Jesus"
! scope="col"| Chart (2021)
! scope="col"| Peak
position
|-
! scope="row"| New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)
| 38
|-
|-
! scope="row"| US Gospel Songs ('Billboard')
| 1
|-
|}
Year-end charts
Release history
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ Release history for "Talking to Jesus"
! scope="col"| Region
! scope="col"| Date
! scope="col"| Format
! scope="col"| Label
! scope="col"| Ref.
|-
! scope="row"| Various
| April 24, 2021
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| Elevation Worship Records
|
|}
References
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