Kanye West has been named Billboard’s top Gospel Artiste of 2020 and also the top male Gospel artiste of 2020.
On the list of entertainers for the Top Gospel Artist chart, Kanye beat out Kirk Franklin at No. 2, Tasha Cobbs Leonard at No. 3, Sunday Service Choir at No. 4,Travis Greene at No. 5, Marvin Sapp at No. 6, Kierra Sheard at No. 7, Koryn Hawthorne at No. 8, Maverick City Music at No. 9, and Jonathan McReynolds at No. 10.
For top male gospel artiste Kanye also beat out Kirk Franklin and Travis Green at number two and three respectively. Billboard notes that ‘Jesus is King’ spent more than a year at number one and is the number one album on the top Gospel Albums year end tally.