We were lost here at the music analysis lab at Pandora Media. Lost, I tell you.

Lost in the Godless, fetid swamp of secular music: forsaken by Folk, ruined by Rap, mauled by Metal.

We analysts, who sit here day after day, encoding into the Music Genome Project the songs that go into the Pandora music database, pumping countless hours of the musical embodiment of the Sin of the world into our heads... we were in true darkness, on the edge of the precipice of Damnation. Doomed, and through our efforts speading our doom in the form of the Adversary's music to the hapless world of Pandora listeners.

But then, Merk the System Administrator moved his mighty hand and imparted unto the Music Genome Project... the CCM Gene.

At last, the database engine for Pandora internet radio is finally coded to accept Comtemporary Christian Music. And the floodgates of the Lord's popular-music are open finally to the world's third largest Internet Radio provider.

And floodgates they are. No mere trickle, this long-dammed-up river of praise-pop is a true torrent. Hundreds of Christian Rock, Christian R&B, and Christian Rap discs... thousands of Jesus-exalting jingles in all the flavors of American popular tunage. Crates and crates of music for Christ, awaiting the long Lord-deprived ears of the Pandora analysis staff. Soon to be unleashed through Pandora to the world at large.

Even now, at this moment, we analysts are creating the metadata for miles of music by Petidee, Jars of Clay, Amy Grant, Stephen Curtis Chapman, and their legions of born-again brethren... soon to be streaming to a PC near you.

And, for me and many of my fellow analysts here at Pandora, it's going to be nothing but CCM for weeks. Months, even. Nothing but CCM.

Hallelujah!