For the TENTH annual Jesusfreakhideout.com Reader's Choice Awards, Switchfoot nabbed two of the awards this time around and is the reigning champion as Artist of the Year for the fourth year in a row! One of Gotee's newest signings, Capital Kings is this year's New Artist of the Year, while Paper Route fans made their voices heard and helped the band snag the top spot for Album of the Year and Acoustic/Folk/Indie Pop Album of the Year, while helping them place on a total of five of the 21 categories. Lecrae also grabbed the top spot on three categories, including our new Emcee of the Year category. Scroll through the list below and check out what YOU collectively voted as the best of 2012! (Note: The winners here were compiled from ONLY completed entry ballots.)
Congratulations to all of the winners and the runner-ups! And thanks again to all who voted.
Also be sure to check out the JFH Staff Picks for 2012 to see what the JFH staff chose for their favorite songs
and albums of 2012. Click here...
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Album of the Year
1st - Paper Route, The Peace of Wild Things
2 - Anberlin, Vital
3 - Thousand Foot Krutch, The End Is Where We Begin
4 - David Crowder*Band, Give Us Rest
5 - House of Heroes, Cold Hard Want
6 - TobyMac, Eye On It
7 - Tenth Avenue North, The Struggle
8 - Third Day, Miracle
9 - Britt Nicole, Gold
10 - for King & Country, Crave
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Song of the Year
1st - Thousand Foot Krutch, "War Of Change"
2 - Unspoken, "Who You Are"
3 - Britt Nicole, "Gold"
4 - Tenth Avenue North, "Worn" / for King and Country, "The Proof Of Your Love" (TIE)
5 - TobyMac, "Me Without You" / Rhett Walker Band, "When Mercy Found Me" / Paper Route, "You and I" (TIE)
6 - Project 86, "Fall, Goliath, Fall" / Holly Starr, "Don't Have Love" (TIE)
7 - TobyMac, "Eye On It"
8 - Wolves At The Gate, "Dead Man"
9 - The Classic Crime, "The Precipice" / Britt Nicole, "All This Time" (TIE)
10 - Paper Route, "Better Life"
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Rock/Alternative Album of the Year
1st - Thousand Foot Krutch, The End Is Where We Begin
2 - Anberlin, Vital
3 - David Crowder*Band, Give Us Rest
4 - House of Heroes, Cold Hard Want
5 - Kutless, Believer
6 - Disciple, O God Save Us All
7 - Flyleaf, New Horizons
8 - The Classic Crime, Phoenix
9 - Fireflight, Now
10 - Children 18:3, On the Run
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Heavy Album of the Year
1st - Project 86, Wait for the Siren
2 - Demon Hunter, True Defiance
3 - As I Lay Dying, Awakened
4 - Wolves at the Gate, Captors
5 - For Today, Immortal
6 - The Devil Wears Prada, Dead & Alive
7 - The Chariot, One Wing
8 - Everything In Slow Motion, Red
9 - Tourniquet, Antiseptic Bloodbath
10 - MyChildren MyBride, MyChildren MyBride
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Pop / Pop Rock Album of the Year
1st - TobyMac, Eye On It
2 - Tenth Avenue North, The Struggle
3 - for King & Country, Crave
4 - Owl City, The Midsummer Station
5 - Britt Nicole, Gold
6 - Third Day, Miracle
7 - Rhett Walker Band, Come To The River
8 - The Rocket Summer, Life Will Write The Words
9 - Lifehouse, Almeria
10 - Holly Starr, Focus
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Acoustic/Folk/Indie Pop Album of the Year
1st - Paper Route, The Peace of Wild Things
2 - Gungor, A Creation Liturgy
3 - Rend Collective Experiment, Homemade Worship By Handmade People
4 - Sixpence None The Richer, Lost In Transition
5 - Audrey Assad, Heart
6 - Andrew Peterson, Light For The Lost Boy
7 - Anchor & Braille, The Quiet Life
8 - Future of Forestry, Young Man Follow
9 - Vocal Few, She'll Be Right
10 - All Sons & Daughters, The Longing: EP No. 3
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Contemporary Album of the Year
1st - MercyMe, The Hurt and the Healer
2 - Aaron Gillespie, Echo Your Song
3 - Matthew West, Into the Light
4 - Worth Dying For, Live Riot
5 - Hillsong, Cornerstone
6 - Hillsong UNITED, Live In Miami: Welcome To The Aftermath
7 - Jesus Culture, Emerging Voices
8 - Mark Schultz, All Things Possible
9 - Bethel Music, The Loft Sessions
10 - Jesus Culture with Martin Smith, Live From New York
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Hip Hop/Urban/Dance Album of the Year
1st - Lecrae, Gravity
2 - Manafest, Fighter
3 - KJ-52, Dangerous
4 - Lecrae, Church Clothes
5 - Andy Hunter, Glow
6 - Propaganda, Excellent
7 - Trip Lee, The Good Life
8 - B.Reith, How The Story Continues
9 - Heath McNease, Thrift Store Jesus
10 - Mary Mary, Go Get It
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EP of the Year
1st - Switchfoot, Vice Re-Verses
2 - NEEDTOBREATHE, Keep Your Eyes Open
3 - Thousand Foot Krutch, Metamorphosiz: The End Remixes, Vol. 1
4 - Owl City, Shooting Star
5 - Capital Kings, I Feel So Alive.
6 - Unspoken, Get To Me
7 - Love and Death, Chemicals EP
8 - The Digital Age, Rehearsals
9 - Rhett Walker Band, The Other Sides
10 - Andy Hunter, Glow
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Christmas Album of the Year
1st - August Burns Red, Sleddin' Hill
2 - Fiction Family, Holiday EP
3 - Jeremy Camp, Christmas: God With Us
4 - Francesca Battistelli, Christmas
5 - Steven Curtis Chapman, Joy
6 - Hillsong, We Have A Savior
7 - Lincoln Brewster, Joy to the World: A Christmas Collection
8 - Jason Gray, Christmas Stories: Repeat the Sounding Joy
9 - Josh Wilson, Noel
10 - Eleventyseven, Regifted EP
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Record Label of the Year
1st - Tooth & Nail Records
2 - Sparrow Records
3 - Come&Live!
4 - Reach Records
5 - BEC Recordings
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