Promises (Maverick City Music song)

"Promises" is a song performed by American contemporary worship collective Maverick City Music featuring Joe L. Barnes and Naomi Raine. The song was released on May 3, 2021, as the second single to their debut live album, Maverick City Vol. 3 Part 1 (2020). The song was written by Aaron Moses, Dante Bowe, Joe L. Barnes, Keila Alvarado, Lemuel Marin, and Phillip Carrington Gaines.

"Promises" peaked at number one on the US Hot Christian Songs chart, and on the Hot Gospel Songs chart, and number eleven on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. The song was ranked by Billboard as the third biggest gospel song in 2022. The song was nominated for the GMA Dove Award for Gospel Worship Recorded Song of the Year at the 2020 GMA Dove Awards. At the 2022 GMA Dove Awards, the song also received a GMA Dove Award nomination for Song of the Year.

Background
On April 10, 2020, Maverick City Music released the official music video for "Promises" featuring Joe L Barnes and Naomi Raine on YouTube in the lead-up to the release of their debut album, Maverick City Vol. 3 Part 1 on April 17, 2020. On May 3, 2021, Maverick City Music released the radio-adapted version of the song, featuring Joe L Barnes and Naomi Raine. The song is slated to impact Christian radio in the United States on May 28, 2021.

Composition
"Promises" is composed in the key of B♭ with a tempo of 172 beats per minute and a musical time signature of.

Commercial performance
Following the release of the radio version, "Promises" debuted at number 26 on the US Hot Christian Songs, and number eight on the Hot Gospel Songs charts dated May 22, 2021. The song reached number one on both the Hot Christian Songs and the Hot Gospel Songs charts dated January 15, 2022, thus ending Kanye West's eighteen week reign on the religious charts, split between "Hurricane" spending twelve weeks at number one, followed by "Praise God" which stayed on top of the charts for six weeks.

Music video
The official music video for the "Promises" featuring Joe L Barnes and Naomi Raine was premiered on YouTube via Tribl, April 10, 2020. This video was recorded at 1971 Sounds in Atlanta with the Maverick City Music Choir as part of a song-sharing and recording session for Maverick City Vol. 3 Part 1.

Other versions

 * Shane & Shane released their own rendition of the song on their album, The Worship Initiative, Vol. 22 (2020).
 * North Point Worship released a cover of "Promises" featuring Chris Cauley, Desi Raines, and Lauren Lee, on their extended play, Live From Decatur City (2021).