Who Killed the Contemporary Christian Music Industry?

Today, Caedmon's Call is a dusty afterthought of a bygone industry. Chances are you've never heard of Caedmon's Call. But the band's story is an interesting microcosm, if not a metaphor, of CCM as a whole. In CCM's heyday, approximately 50 million CCM albums were sold annually. In 2014, that number had plummeted to 17 million. CCM Magazine has long since ceased printing issues, and modern Christian songwriters struggle to penetrate the masses, outside of writing worship songs for church gatherings.