Hilary Weeks ( Novakovich; born March 7, 1970) is an American Christian musician and Latter-Day Saint singer, who primarily plays a worship and gospel music version of Christian country and Christian pop. She has released ten musical works, with eight of those being studio albums, He Hears Me (1996), Lead Me Home (1998) and I Will Not Forget (2000), Day of Praise (2004), If I Only Had Today (2008), Every Step (2011), Say Love (2013), Say Love (2013), and, Love Your Life (2016), while she released two holiday albums, Christmastime (2006) and Christmas Once Again (2009). Her last four musical works charted on various Billboard magazine charts.
Early life Weeks was born Hilary Novakovich, on March 7, 1970, in Colorado, while she was raised in Alaska. She graduated from Brigham Young University with her baccalaureate of arts in 1993 from their music department.
Career Her music recording career started in 1996, with the studio album He Hears Me, that was released by Deseret Book. She then went onto release four more studio albums, Lead Me Home in 1998, I Will Not Forget in 2000, Day of Praise in 2004, If I Only Had Today on September 17, 2008. While her next two albums, Every Step and Say Love, released on October 25, 2011, and September 9, 2013, correspondingly, while they charted each on three Billboard magazine charts, The Billboard 200 at Nos. 102 and 161, respectively, Christian Albums at Nos. 6 and 9, correspondingly, and Independent Albums at Nos. 23 and 30, respectively. She was the first Mormon to have an album peak in the Top-10 of the Christian Albums chart. The eighth studio album, Love Your Life, was released on September 16, 2016, and it charted on the Christian Albums chart at No. 7, and Independent Albums chart at No. 24.
She has released two holiday albums, Christmastime, on November 7, 2006, and her most commercially successful one, Christmas Once Again, on October 13, 2009, where it peaked at Nos. 26 and 40 on the Holiday Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts.
Personal life She is married to Timothy Weeks, and they have four daughters, residing in Utah. Weeks was called by Forbes one of the "40 Women to Watch Over 40".
Discography Studio albums + List of studio albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positionsUSUSChrUSIndHe Hears Me Released: 1996
CD, digital download – – –Lead Me Home Released: 1998
CD, digital download – – –I Will Not Forget Released: 2000
CD, digital download – – –Day of Praise Released: 2004
CD, digital download – – –If I Only Had Today Released: September 17, 2008
CD, digital download – – –Every Step Released: October 25, 2011
CD, digital download 102 6 23Say Love Released: September 9, 2013
CD, digital download 161 9 30Love Your Life Released: September 16, 2016
CD, digital download – 7 24
Holiday albums + List of holiday albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak chart positionsUSHolUSHeatChristmastime Released: November 7, 2006
CD, digital download – –Christmas Once Again Released: October 13, 2009
CD, digital download 26 40
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