Month: May 2021

My Top 10 Hits – Week 223

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MAY 23RD 2021	WEEK 223

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) [2ND week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	3	10	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
3	2	18	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
4	6	3	Yes He Can	Cain
5	5	7	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
6	4	9	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
7	7	14	Good God Almighty	Crowder
8	8	26	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
9	9	7	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
10	10	5	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Born Again” – Austin French
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

TobyMac spends a 2ND week at # 1 with his smash “Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)”. It’s also Top 5 nationwide at U.S. Christian radio (large market) – and just outside of the Top 5 (small market). I expect it to be Top 3 next week at both.

BUBBLING UNDER – Ryan Stevenson‘s latest “When We Fall Apart” is starting to receive moderate airplay on K-LOVE. It’s sitting just outside of my Top 10, and it could enter with next week’s chart. It would be his 6TH hit on my chart during this current era.

This weekend’s chart is normally the first chart of summer, but this year Memorial Day is as late as it can possibly be on the calendar – May 31ST. Last year it was as early as it can possibly be – May 25TH. (It’s always the last Monday of May.) Here in the U.S. it’s unofficially the start of summer.

Every summer here at #CountUp I celebrate the hottest hits of the hottest time of the year – from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend. On the Tuesday after Labor Day in September I’ll present my Top 10 hits of the 15 weeks of summer.

This blog is # 48 worldwide on the Top 90 Christian Music Blogs, Websites, & Influencers in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and a special post on Tuesday June 01ST (my next music chart). I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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Be blessed my friends ! May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 23, 2021

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be My witnesses – telling people about Me everywhere – in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8 NLT)

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 21, 2021

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 15, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 19TH 1991:

“Joyride” – Roxette
“Here We Go (Let’s Rock & Roll)” – C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams & Zelma Davis
“Disappear” – INXS
“I Touch Myself” – The Divinyls
“Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” – C + C Music Factory Ft. Freedom Williams

30 years ago this weekend I compiled and published my 302ND hit music chart. That was during the original mainstream Top 40 era of my chart that ran from November 1985 to November 1992.

At # 11 on my chart that week was the debut smash from Michael W. Smith. His “Place In This World” was steadily climbing and getting ready to enter my Top 10. Amy Grant cowrote it with Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Michael W. Smith holds the distinction of having the longest span of any artist on my chart from first hit to last hit – 29 years. His “Waymaker” last year was a Top 3 hit.

Here’s the official music video of his first hit – “Place In This World”:

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to May 1986.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Little Buddy Boots

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 20, 2021

This was my little feline buddy ‘Boots’. I met him in 1994, and we officially became housemates on New Year’s Day 1995. Over the years Boots developed my personality in a cat’s body. He was the smartest cat I’ve ever met. I talked to him, and he understood me, and he responded to me.

Boots’ favorite hobbies included greeting me at the front door all the time, following me everywhere I went, watching my every move, eating with me, sleeping with me, and (for fun) pushing geckos off the back porch screen in order to “save my life”. If Boots saw a gecko climbing on the outside of the screen it would only take him mere seconds to jump up and push that gecko off the screen and tumbling 15 feet to the ground below. Once he did that he’d look back at me for my instant approval (which I always granted).

Boots was with me for 12½ years – the toughest 12½ years of my adult life. Exactly 14 years ago this week on May 16TH 2007 was a horrible night for Boots and I. He was in agonizing pain (due to the effects of various diseases), and he could no longer hide it. He was screaming all night long. He could no longer walk. He lost the ability to purr. I knew that was his last night of life.

The next morning I made the ultimate decision to put him to sleep to end his terminal pain and suffering that he was enduring. I was with him at the very end at the animal hospital, and he meowed at me one last time as if to thank me for loving him for all of those years. His eyes slowly closed after that, and I cried.

His doctor said it was my final good deed for him, and that he probably lived much longer than he should have – due to the love that I provided to him over the years.