{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Beach Street Records | parent = Sony Music Entertainment (SME) | founded = {{start date|2003}} | founder = Mark Miller | distributor = Provident Label Group | genre = Contemporary Christian | country = United States | location = Nashville, Tennessee | website = {{URL|beachstreetrecords.com}} }} '''Beach Street Records''' is a part of Reunion Records, under the Provident Label Group. The label was founded in 2003, by Mark Miller, lead singer of the country band Sawyer Brown.<ref>Leggett, Steve. "[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p587461/biography|pure_url=yes}} Biography: Casting Crowns]", Allmusic. Retrieved on 2009-01-23.</ref><ref name=Ledger>Banks, Adelle M. (February 23, 2008). "Casting Crowns, in Tampa on Sunday, Reaches Believers and Non-Believers", ''The Ledger''.</ref>
Mark Miller is credited with having discovered the band Casting Crowns, and made the band a top priority at his new label.<ref>Price, Deborah Evans (September 10, 2005). "Breaking the mold", ''Billboard'' '''117''' (37): 28–29.</ref> A college student who attended the church where Mark Hall was youth pastor, Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, Georgia, first brought the band to Miller's attention.<ref name=Ledger /> In 2003, the band's debut album was released on Beach Street.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/casting-crowns-mn0000802382/discography | title=Casting Crowns Albums and Discography | website=AllMusic }}</ref>
In turn, it was Mark Hall of Casting Crowns who introduced Miller to the music of John Waller. Hall had met Waller at a youth rally shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and years later sent a CD of Waller's music to Miller. Waller was signed, and his debut solo album was released on Beach Street in 2007.<ref>Price, Deborah Evans (January 6, 2007). "Faces to watch: John Waller: Beach Street Records", ''Billboard'' '''119''' (1): 20.</ref>
Mark Miller first met Kentucky singer-songwriter Josh Bates, another of the label's signings, in the late 1990s when Bates was 15 years old. He took on a mentoring role for years with him before a recording was released.<ref>Turner, Bronwyn (February 4, 2006). "Crowns of glory", ''The Lufkin Daily News''.</ref>
Christian music artist, Rebecca St. James, was signed to the label in 2010. She released her ninth studio album, ''I Will Praise You'', the following year.
==Artists== * Rebecca St. James<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/errors/404.asp|title=Jesus freak Hideout|website=www.jesusfreakhideout.com|access-date=28 December 2022|archive-date=5 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305173531/https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/errors/404.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Casting Crowns * John Waller * Josh Bates * Kelly Pease
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== External links== * [http://www.beachstreetrecords.com/ Record label website]
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