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{{Infobox album
| name       = Accelerate
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Jump5]]
| cover      = Jump5 Ac.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|2003|10|7}}
| recorded   = 2003
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Contemporary Christian music]], [[pop rock]], [[power pop]]
| length     = 33:48
| label      = [[Sparrow Records|Sparrow]]
| producer   =
| prev_title = [[All the Joy in the World]]
| prev_year  = 2002
| next_title = [[Mix It Up]]
| next_year  = 2004
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = Accelerate
| type        = studio
| single1 = Do Ya
| single1date = 2003
| single2 = [[Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Shining Star]]
| single2date = 2003
| single3 = [[We Are Family (song)|We Are Family]]
| single3date = 2003
| single4 = Why Do I Do
| single4date = 2003
| single5 = Wonderful
| single5date = 2004
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=accelerate-mw0000600486|tab=overview|last=Loftus|first=Johnny|accessdate = August 29, 2015}}</ref>
}}
'''''Accelerate''''' is the fourth album by the [[Christian pop]] group [[Jump5]]. It was released on October 7, 2003. It charted at No. 150 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and at No. 8 on the Top Christian Albums charts.<ref>{{AllMusic | class=album | id=accelerate-mw0000600486 | tab=awards | label= "Accelerate" Awards| accessdate=August 29, 2015}}</ref> The album demonstrated the group's shift towards a [[pop rock]] sound, and was also the first album on which a member of the group had writing credits. Half of the album was [[cover song|covers]], including "Do Ya" by [[Michelle Tumes]], "Way of the World" by Don Philip and "[[Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves song)|Walking on Sunshine]]" by [[Katrina and the Waves]]. The group's cover of [[Sister Sledge]]'s "[[We Are Family (song)|We Are Family]]" was later used as the theme for the Radio Disney Family ''Pledge Initiative''. The group's cover of "[[Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Shining Star]]" by [[Earth, Wind & Fire]] was part of [[The Lizzie McGuire Movie (soundtrack)|The Lizzie McGuire Movie's soundtrack]].
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| title1          = Do Ya
| writer1         = [[Michelle Tumes]]
| length1         = 3:09
| title2          = [[We Are Family (song)|We Are Family]]
| writer2         = [[Bernard Edwards]], Nile Rodgers
| length2         = 3:39
| title3          = Wonderful
| writer3         = Kevin Cyka, Dan Needham, [[Lynn Nichols]]
| length3         = 3:19
| title4          = Pressure
| writer4         = Shannon Ford, [[Dan Muckala]]
| length4         = 3:09
| title5          = Why Do I Do
| writer5         = Chrissy Conway, [[Alisa Childers|Alisa Girard]], Kristin Swinford, Nichols, [[Tedd T]]jornhom
| length5         = 3:21
| title6          = Way of the World
| writer6         = Mark Hammond, Robin Scoffield
| length6         = 3:24
| title7          = [[Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves song)|Walking on Sunshine]]
| writer7         = [[Kimberley Rew]]
| length7         = 4:04
| title8          = Every Part of Me
| writer8         = [[Matthew Gerrard]], Michele Vice-Maslin
| length8         = 3:24
| title9          = All Because of You
| writer9         = Brandon Hargest, Paul Jenkins, Dave Elliot Johnson, Brad Minor
| length9         = 3:06
| title10         = [[Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song)|Shining Star]]
| writer10        = [[Philip Bailey]], [[Larry Dunn]], [[Maurice White]]
| length10        = 3:17
}}
==DVD release==
''Start Dancin' with Jump5'' was released on [[DVD]] on November 18, 2003. The DVD featured the group teaching the choreography for "Spinnin' Around", "All I Can Do", and "Do Ya". It also contained music videos from the group's previous DVD releases, including the music video for "Do Ya".
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