ForeFront Records

{{Short description|American Christian record label}}

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{{Infobox record label

| name = ForeFront Records

| image = ForeFront Records logo.png

| parent = Universal Music Group

| founded = {{start date|1987}}

| founder = Eddie DeGarmo, Dan R. Brock, Dana Key, Ron Griffin

| distributor = Capitol Christian Music Group

| genre = Contemporary Christian music, Christian rock

| country = United States

| location =

| website = {{URL|forefrontrecords.com}}

}}

ForeFront Records is a contemporary Christian music and Christian rock record label founded in 1987 by Dan R. Brock, Eddie DeGarmo, Dana Key, and Ron W. Griffin.{{cite journal |last=Price |first=Deborah Evans |date=July 13, 1996 |title=EMI buys Christian label ForeFront |journal=Billboard Magazine |volume=108 |issue=28 |page=5 }} It was purchased by EMI in 1996 from Dan R. Brock and Eddie DeGarmo, and is a division of Universal Music Group under Capitol Christian Music Group.{{cite book |last=Hendershot |first=Heather |title=Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture |year=2004 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, Illinois |isbn=0-226-32679-9 |chapter=Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music? Christian Music and the Secular Marketplace. Currently, Forefront Records is negotiating record contracts with hip hop, R&B, and other rock bands/artists. |page=56 }}

In 1998, ForeFront released Ten: The Birthday Album, a two-CD compilation to celebrate their 10th anniversary that featured songs from several of their artists at the time with several song remakes of older songs performed by new bands.