| "No Longer Slaves" | ||||
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| SinglebyBethel Music featuring Jonathan David & Melissa Helser | ||||
| from the album We Will Not Be Shaken | ||||
| Released | August 21, 2015 (2015-08-21) | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
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| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Bethel Music | |||
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| Producer(s) | Ed Cash[1] | |||
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| "No Longer Slaves (Live)"onYouTube | ||||
"No Longer Slaves" is a song by Bethel Music featuring Jonathan David & Melissa Helser and it was released on August 21, 2015, as Bethel Music's lead single from their seventh live album, We Will Not Be Shaken (2015).[2] The song also appeared on the album Bethel Music en Español (2019). The song won the "Worship Song of the Year" award at the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards in 2016, with Jonathan David & Melissa Helser performing it at the ceremony.[3]
Composed by Jonathan Helser, Joel Case and Brian Johnson,[4] a live version of the song was released as part of the Bethel Music compilation, We Will Not Be Shaken, on January 26, 2015.[5] The live version was recorded on a mountaintop overlooking Shasta Lake in northern California,[6] with Jonathan David & Melissa Helser leading the song.[7]
The studio version of the song impacted Christian radio on August 21, 2015, as well as being distributed as a digital download,[2][8] and was produced by award-winning producer Ed Cash.[1]
The live music video of the song was released by the Bethel Music on January 26, 2015,[9] having been recorded at Shasta Lake and is part of the concert film We Will Not Be Shaken directed by Nathan Grubbs and Luke Manwaring.[10] The live video was later released on February 17, 2015, on Bethel Music's YouTube channel, with over 7 million views as of May 2017.[11]
The official lyric video of the song was released on January 26, 2015, also on Bethel Music's YouTube channel and has been viewed over 102 million times as June 2019.[12]
In August 2016, the Gospel Music Association announced the nominees of the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards with "No Longer Slaves" being nominated for a Dove Award in the "Worship Song of the Year" category.[13][14] On October 11, 2016, the song won the GMA Dove Award at a ceremony held at the Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb UniversityinNashville, Tennessee, with Jonathan David & Melissa Helser performing the song that night.[3][15][16]
| Chart (2015) | Peak position |
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| USChristian Songs (Billboard)[17] | 19 |
| USChristian Airplay (Billboard)[18] | 20 |
| USChristian AC (Billboard)[19] | 15 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[20] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
| Region | Date | Version | Format | Label | Ref. |
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| Worldwide | August 21, 2015 | Standard | Digital download | Bethel Music | [8] |
This new Bethel Music song called 'No Longer Slaves' is a very, very special song to me right now. Ed Cash, who's produced Chris Tomlin, Chris August- just huge records, multi years of winning Dove award Producer of the Year. He came in and crafted this song for radio, reinvented it for radio, had the singers come in and re-sing the vocal, and built the new track up. This is the most important song I'm going to work in 2015.
Culminating the first week's sales success of Beautiful Surrender, the Helser's were honored with their first GMA Dove Award for "Worship Song of the Year" for their hit single, "No Longer Slaves," which is featured as a bonus song on the new album. The Helser's further led the song live Oct. 11 on the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards show that lifted the sold-out crowd at Lipscomb University's Allen Arena to their feet in worship.
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