[2] In 1995 Thompson founded a live music club for Christian acts called True Tunes Upstairs.
[3] In 1997 the store, magazine, and related assets were bought by the Charlottesville, VA based company Journey Communications.
Journey closed the shop in early 1998 citing lagging sales due to the spread of alternative Christian music to larger retailers, and turned operations to the printed magazine and the internet.
[2] Despite competition from CCM, HM, and 7ball magazines True Tunes News was extremely successful, achieving a worldwide circulation of 50,000 issues by 1993.
[5] In the late 1990s the magazine ran into financial trouble when several of the record labels whose advertising financed it[4] and it went defunct in 1998.