(ChurchLeaders) Openly queer artist Semler, the stage name of Grace Baldridge, claimed the number one spot on iTunes’ Christian album chart for two days and counting this week. Baldridge’s newly released “Preacher’s Kid” knocked Lauren Daigle’s album “Look Up Child” from the top of the chart, where it had held steady for the much of the past two years.
“A Christian music exec told me to my face that there was no space for a story like mine in the industry, and I want to prove him wrong,” said Baldridge shortly before her album moved to the number one spot on the Christian chart. The artist said she wanted to claim the top spot “for anyone who has ever been cast out in the name of God.”