Mary Mary (album)

Mary Mary
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 19, 2005
Genre
Length42:14
LabelColumbia
Producer
Mary Mary chronology
Incredible
(2002)
Mary Mary
(2005)
A Mary Mary Christmas
(2006)

Mary Mary is the third studio album by American duo Mary Mary. It was released by Columbia Records on July 19, 2005 in the United States, selling 57,000 copies in its first week.[1] In 2006, the album won a Dove Award for Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year at the 37th GMA Dove Awards.[2]

The album was listed among the 52 CD releases from Sony BMG that were identified as having been shipped with the controversial Extended Copy Protection (XCP) computer software,[3][4] which has been known to cause a number of serious security problems in any Microsoft Windows computer that had the CD inserted at one time and has been regarded as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit by a number of security software vendors.[5] Sony discontinued use of the technology on November 11, 2005,[6] and recalled this and other titles affected by XCP, and asked customers to submit copies affected by the software to the company so that it could replace them with copies that did not contain the software.[7]

  1. ^ Hilburn, Robert (July 28, 2005). "'Now' brightens slow week". LA Times. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  2. ^ 37th Annual GMA Dove Awards Nominations & Winners Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine on About.com; Jones, Kim
  3. ^ List of titles affected by XCP
  4. ^ "Sony officially lists 52 XCP infected CDs & faces a loss of sales". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  5. ^ "Microsoft to Zap Sony DRM Rootkit". eWEEK. 12 November 2005.
  6. ^ "Breaking News, Business News, Financial and Investing News & More - Reuters.co.uk". arquivo.pt. Archived from the original on 2009-12-23.
  7. ^ Graham, Jefferson (2005-11-14). "Sony to pull controversial CDs, offer swap". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-05-02.