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People (Hillsong United album)

Live album by Hillsong United

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ64159687
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People is the fourteenth live album from Australian contemporary worship music band Hillsong United. It was released on 26 April 2019, through Hillsong Music and Capitol Christian Music Group. The writing process for the album involved biblical influences, having the role as worship music for Hillsong, and its musical style involves a youthful influence, with use of acoustic instruments within recording.

Recorded on 18 November 2018 at Hills Campus in Sydney, upon release, the album received generally positive reviews by critics, receiving a rating of 4.5 out of 5 from critics such as 365 Days of Inspiring Media. The album debuted at No. 6 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart, No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, as well as the Canadian Albums Chart. People won the Worship Album of Year at the 50th Dove Awards in 2019, while its deluxe edition was also nominated to Worship Album of Year at the 51st Dove Awards in 2020.

To promote the album, Hillsong United toured the United States for the first time in three years, and also released an accompanying film. In the lead up to the release of People (Live), Hillsong United released a range of promotional material for the album, including promotional videos and merchandise.

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Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where People, Hillsong and United can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as live album by Hillsong United. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from People (Hillsong United album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.