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Heart in Motion

1991 album by Amy Grant

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ10294118
Source-derived summary

Heart in Motion is the ninth studio album by Christian singer-songwriter, Amy Grant, released on March 5, 1991. Unlike Grant's previous albums, Heart In Motion contains pop songs mingled with Christian values (with the exception of "Hope Set High" and "Ask Me"). The album features Grant's biggest worldwide hit, "Baby Baby" and was certified 5× platinum in the United States, selling over five million copies.

Commercial success

Heart in Motion peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 of the Christian albums chart for 32 weeks. It sold five million copies by the end of 1997. The first single from the album, "Baby Baby" offers the lyric that provides the album title and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. The following four singles also performed well on the pop and AC charts: "Every Heartbeat" (No.

Editorial summary

“Heart in Motion” enters the record as 1991 album by Amy Grant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heart, Motion and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-03-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Heart, Motion and album.
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Why this record matters

“Heart in Motion” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heart, Motion and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10294118. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1997.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Heart in Motion”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Heart in Motion primary sources, Heart in Motion archive and Heart research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from Heart in Motion” 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.