40 Fun Facts About BarlowGirl

Which BarlowGirl single was Christian Hit Radio's longest-running No. 1 song of 2004?

Never Alone was written by the three sisters in about 45 minutes, built on phrases from a journal. It was named Song of the Year on the Christian hit radio and rock charts alike.

Which band opened its 2001 debut album with a tribute song named after the sisters of BarlowGirl?

Superchick praised the sisters' stand for purity in the song Barlow Girls, which made the family name known three years before the trio released a record of their own.

BarlowGirl started out in the late 1990s as the touring backup band for which family member?

Their father, Vince Barlow, made youth CDs at Willow Creek Community Church and was hired for events across the country. His daughters wrote their own songs to play at his shows.

Which BarlowGirl single from Another Journal Entry was Christian Hit Radio's most played song of 2006?

I Need You to Love Me logged more than 30,000 plays that year and held No. 1 on the R&R Christian Hit Radio chart for nine weeks.

In BarlowGirl's song Average Girl, the sisters compare themselves to the heroine of which fairy tale?

Sleeping Beauty suits the song's message: the sisters picture resting in a deep sleep until God sends a prince, their answer to the pressure to date.

Lauren Barlow, the youngest BarlowGirl sister, shared lead vocals while playing which instrument?

Drums were Lauren's job while she split lead vocals with Alyssa, who played bass and keyboards. Eldest sister Rebecca played guitar and sang backup.

BarlowGirl's It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year cover promoted whose 2009 White House TV special?

Oprah Winfrey interviewed Barack and Michelle Obama for Christmas at the White House, and the trio licensed their holiday cover to the program.

BarlowGirl's first composition, a live-only song called You Know, was modeled on which Hanson hit?

MMMBop, the 1997 chart-topper by three Hanson brothers, was the template for the first song the three Barlow sisters wrote, before the band even had its name.

BarlowGirl formed in which Illinois city, where the trio played a hometown holiday concert in 2011?

Elgin sits about 35 miles northwest of Chicago, and the trio came back in December 2011 to sing their carols album live for a hometown crowd.

BarlowGirl sang an a cappella cover of I Will, by which band, during their 2012 farewell webcast?

The Beatles shaped the trio's sound: the sisters grew up on 1950s and 60s records and said I Will was the first song they ever learned to sing in parts.

The capital G in the middle of BarlowGirl's one-word name is an example of which writing style?

Camel case is named for the hump a mid-word capital makes, and the trio used it for branding, the way YouTube and iPhone do.

BarlowGirl's 2006 radio single Enough was first recorded by which worship leader?

Chris Tomlin wrote Enough with Louie Giglio for his 2002 album Not to Us; the trio's version surfaced on a worship compilation months before their own second album.

As children, the sisters of BarlowGirl came home one Christmas Eve to find which surprise gift?

A baby grand piano was moved in while their mother kept the girls out shopping all day. That night began a family tradition of singing carols with four cousins.

BarlowGirl's sound was known for mixing rock guitars with which vocal trademark sung by the sisters?

Three-part harmony came from the records the sisters grew up on: they named the Mamas & the Papas as a major influence because of that group's blended vocals.

BarlowGirl sang guest vocals on You're Worthy of My Praise, a 2005 radio hit for which band?

Big Daddy Weave shared a record label with the trio, and the sisters sang lead and backing parts on the track for the album What I Was Made For.

BarlowGirl's recording of For the Beauty of the Earth appeared on a companion album of songs for which 2006 film?

The Nativity Story: Sacred Songs, an album of songs inspired by the film, carried an alternate mix of the hymn, and the trio's recording became a top 20 hit on Christian adult contemporary radio.

Which BarlowGirl single passed 200,000 downloads as iTunes' free Single of the Week in 2005?

Let Go was the lead single from the trio's second album, and the giveaway ran during the very week that album reached stores.

Which Nashville label signed BarlowGirl in October 2003 and released all of the trio's albums?

Fervent Records was only two years old when it signed the sisters, having been founded in 2001; Word Records bought the label in 2005.

Which BarlowGirl album, released in July 2007, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Christian albums chart?

How Can We Be Silent also reached No. 40 on the Billboard 200, the trio's best showing there, and it arrived in five different editions on the same day.

BarlowGirl paired Sing We Now of Christmas in a medley with which other seasonal classic?

Carol of the Bells anchored the medley, which ranked among the 20 most downloaded songs in the iTunes holiday section in 2008 and was reissued a cappella a year later.

Which single from BarlowGirl's debut album earned a Dove Award nomination in 2006?

Mirror peaked at No. 3 on the R&R Christian Hit Radio chart, with Alyssa and Lauren trading the lead vocal between them.

BarlowGirl's 2004 single Clothes was added to the playlist of which nationwide broadcaster?

Radio Disney gave the trio airplay beyond Christian stations with the song, the shortest track on the debut album at under two and a half minutes.

Which BarlowGirl rock anthem, recorded with a choir, named the trio's 2008 headlining tour?

Million Voices features the New Song Ensemble choir and earned a Dove nomination for Rock Recorded Song of the Year. The tour set out to raise money for a women's home.

Which lead single from BarlowGirl's final studio album earned a Dove nomination for its video?

Beautiful Ending reached No. 3 on Christian hit radio in 2009, and the trio built a website where fans could submit endings of their own.

Which final BarlowGirl song did the sisters perform acoustically during their farewell online chat in October 2012?

Hope Will Lead Us On was recorded that August, and the sisters played it in an acoustic set five days after announcing they were retiring the band.

On which Home for Christmas hymn does BarlowGirl's Rebecca take a rare lead vocal?

What Child Is This? was one of two favorites Rebecca picked for the album. The quietest of the sisters, she normally played guitar and sang backup.

BarlowGirl reached the finals of a 2002 industry seminar, unaware it was a contest, in which state?

Colorado hosted the Gospel Music Association's Music in the Rockies seminar at Estes Park, and word of mouth from it brought record companies to the unsigned sisters.

Lauren Barlow of BarlowGirl edited a 2011 book of essays inspired by which Christian author?

A. W. Tozer, a pastor and author who died in 1963, inspired the book's 59 contributors, who included Lauren's two sisters and both of their parents.

All three BarlowGirl sisters, each starting in a different grade, were schooled through which route?

Homeschooling began for Lauren in first grade, for Alyssa in fourth and for Rebecca in seventh, so the youngest sister spent the least time in a classroom.

Which singer, known for Grace Like Rain, guests on BarlowGirl's Psalm 73 (My God's Enough)?

Todd Agnew, a Dallas-born worship artist, joins a track on the trio's second album where Alyssa and Lauren split the lead vocal.

Which BarlowGirl holiday track became a 2010 video single from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?

Hallelujah (Light Has Come) is the only original song on the trio's seasonal album, sitting beside ten traditional carols and standards.

In 2007 BarlowGirl served as youth ambassadors for which annual American observance?

National Day of Prayer got its own song from the trio: We Pray, recorded for the event with guest vocalists including Rebecca St. James.

BarlowGirl recommended I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a 1997 book urging courtship, by which author?

Joshua Harris later reversed course: by the late 2010s he had apologized to readers hurt by the book and told its publisher to stop printing it.

Which Christian pop singer has named BarlowGirl's debut album a key influence on her own music?

Jamie Grace singled out four songs from that record as favorites while discussing the inspirations behind her 2017 album '91.

Which producer, once the bassist of Sonicflood, worked on every BarlowGirl studio album?

Otto Price produced all five studio albums and played many of the extra parts himself, from accordion to synthesizer, on the third record.

Which historic university choir sings on Tears Fall, a track from BarlowGirl's final studio album?

Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Nashville ensemble first organized in 1871 to raise funds for Fisk University, back the song under director Paul Kwami.

BarlowGirl's 2006 video showing a bound man who is freed when he kneels premiered on which website?

Yahoo! Music debuted the clip on June 28, 2006; it was filmed to push the trio's breakthrough hit toward mainstream radio, where the song failed to chart.

The cover of BarlowGirl's third album, released in 2007, shows the sisters posed in which setting?

A boxing ring matched the record's fighting spirit: Alyssa called the family very battle-oriented, and the track One More Round is built on a prizefight metaphor.

BarlowGirl's theme verse from 2003 to 2007 was chapter 12, verse 2 of which New Testament letter?

Romans 12:2 tells believers not to conform to the world, and the trio named their 2006 outing the Don't Conform Tour.

Which European orchestra is credited as playing on BarlowGirl's 2008 album Home for Christmas?

City of Prague Philharmonic players supplied the orchestral backing, with David Das orchestrating and conducting, while the sisters themselves only sang on the record.