Kirk Franklin on the OnTimeTVShow.com

The Music Experience with host " Dedry Jones featuring the remarkable Kirk Franklin "Hello Fear" (Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Verity Records)

Hello Fear" bows at No. 1 this week on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums and No. 5 on the Billboard 200, selling 87,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Since making his first appearance on Top Gospel Albums in 1993 with "Kirk Franklin and the Family," Franklin has watched all 10 of his albums peak at No. 1.

Produced by Franklin and Shaun Martin, "Hello Fear" features several special guests. Beverly Crawford and Marvin Sapp grace "The Altar," while Rance Allen, John P. Kee and Marvin Winans join forces on "Something About the Name Jesus Pt. 2." Explaining the album's overall theme, Franklin says, "People are dealing with a lot of stuff: money, gas, war, terrorism and natural disasters. There's a great sense of anxiety that's a cloud over everything right now. I thought it would be a good time to address that in people's lives and in my own life. As soon as I wrote those first few lines of 'Hello Fear,' I knew that had to be the title."

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