Become Who You Are

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Become Who You Are
Mainstay-Become Who You Are.jpg
Studio album by
Released25 September 2007
RecordedEarly 2007
Genre Rock, Christian rock
Length44:43 [1]
Label BEC Recordings
Mainstay chronology
Well Meaning Fiction
(2006)
Become Who You Are
(2007)

Become Who You Are is the second and final studio album released by Christian rock band Mainstay. It was released September 25, 2007.

Contents

Singles

"Believe" was the 20th most-played song of 2008 on U.S. Contemporary Christian music radio stations according to R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Become Who You Are"
  2. "Stars Are Singing"
  3. "Away From You"
  4. "Where Your Heart Belongs"
  5. "Am I Keeping You?"
  6. "Believe"
  7. "Only One"
  8. "Island"
  9. "When You Come Down"
  10. "Roads"
  11. "Story"
  12. "Don't I Look The Same"
  13. "Hang On"

Personnel

Jeremy Camp

Some of the songs of this album and Chris Tomlin's album Arriving were performed by them as the opening act on Jeremy Camp's Live Unplugged Tour

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References

  1. "Become Who You Are" Review; Jesus Freak Hideout; Retrieved March 28, 2008
  2. 2008 Year End Charts/Top Christian CHR songs Archived 2009-05-25 at the Wayback Machine , R&R magazine, Retrieved January 15, 2009