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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Aaron lives in [[Duluth, Georgia]] with his wife Sarah and their son, Daniel. Aaron and Sarah recently had a baby boy named Nicholas Michael Shust.
Aaron lives in [[Aliquippa, Pennsylvania]] with his wife Sarah and their sons, Daniel and Nicky.


==Discography==
==Discography==

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Aaron Shust

Aaron Shust is an American Contemporary Christian Music artist on the Brash Music label. Shust was named the songwriter of the year at the GMA Dove Awards of 2007, and his song "My Savior My God" received the Song of the Year award.[1]

Biography

Shust grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied music theory at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia. While there he studied Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach. He also became influenced by U2 and Bob Marley.[2] He began performing at churches and coffeehouses while at college.

Shust began leading worship at Perimeter Church, Duluth, Georgia in 2000 and recorded his album, Anything Worth Saying in 2004 with producer Dan Hannon who delivered the album along with a stack of others along to Brash Music for consideration. Brash Music signed Shust shortly thereafter.

2006

His second single "My Savior My God" was released January 20, 2006. The song was played on Christian radio stations around Christmas 2005. The song was listed at #19 on Radio and Records chart three weeks before the single was officially released to radio.

The song was listed #1 on six charts simultaneously by April 17: Radio and Records (R&R) Christian adult contemporary (AC) radio chart, R&R Christian AC monitor chart, CRW's AC radio chart, Billboard Hot Christian songs radio chart, most downloaded inspirational song on iTunes, and Billboard Hot Christian AC chart. The song spent 30 weeks in the Top 5 on the R&R Christian AC chart in 2006.[3] Digital downloads of the song have topped 75,000 copies, and the song has held the #1 spot on the iTunes Christian and Gospel chart for over three months.[3] The single was the second most played song of 2006 on Christian CHR radio as played on the Weekend 22.[4]. It was the #1 song of 2006 on 20 The Countdown Magazine. The song was awarded Song of the Year at the 2007 Annual GMA Dove Awards in Nashville.

Anything Worth Saying was the 5th best-selling "Praise and Worship" album of 2006, according to the Nielsen Soundscan report for 2006. It only sold 300 copies its first week, however.[citation needed]

2007

At the GMA Dove Awards of 2007 in Nashville, Tennessee, Shust was awarded three Dove Awards: Song of the Year ("My Savior, My God"), Songwriter of the Year, and New Artist of the Year.

Shust's second studio album, Whispered and Shouted, was released on June 5, 2007, and sold 5,000 copies its first week of release.[citation needed]

Present

In 2009, Shust's third album, Take Over, was released, including the Christian radio hit "To God Alone".[5] On October 21, he released a Christmas EP.

Personal life

Aaron lives in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania with his wife Sarah and their sons, Daniel and Nicky.

Discography

Albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
US US
Christian
US
Heat
US
Indie
2005 Anything Worth Saying

63 1 2 3
2007 Whispered and Shouted

  • Released: June 5, 2007
  • Label: Brash
  • Format: CD, digital download
151 5 17
2009 Take Over

  • Released: August 4, 2009
  • Label: Brash
  • Format: CD, digital download
197 15 21
Christmas EP

  • Released: October 21, 2009
  • Label: Brash
  • Format: EP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year Title Album
2005 "Matchless" Anything Worth Saying
2006 "My Savior My God" Anything Worth Saying
2006 "Give It All Away" Anything Worth Saying
2007 "Give Me Words to Speak" Whispered and Shouted
2007 "Long Live the King" Whispered and Shouted
2008 "Watch Over Me" Whispered and Shouted
2009 "To God Alone" Take Over
2009 "Come and Save Us" Take Over
2009 "O come, O come, Emmanuel" Christmas EP

Awards

Awards
Preceded by GMA's New Artist of the Year
2007
Succeeded by

References