July 1, 2024 – CountUp

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday June 30TH 2024 – the 385TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	8	Beautiful Life [4TH week @ # 1]	Pat Barrett
2	2	10	Somebody Like Me	Caleb & John Ft. Cain
3	4	6	God Is With Us	The Afters
4	3	5	Strongholds	Chris Tomlin
5	9	10	The Prodigal	Josiah Queen
6	8	4	Take You At Your Word	Cody Carnes
7	6	30	Lead On Good Shepherd	Patrick Mayberry
8	7	19	You’ve Already Won	Shane & Shane
9	10	2	Miracle Child	Brandon Lake
10	–	1	Good Day	Forrest Frank

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Me On My Mind” – Matthew West
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “Keep Me In The Moment” – Jeremy Camp
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

PATRICK MAYBERRY – His “Lead On Good Shepherd” is on my chart for its 30TH week in a row. That includes 22 weeks in a row in my Top 5, and 14 weeks in a row at either # 1 or # 2. Last Sunday morning – the Worship Pastor at my Homestead Florida church made a spontaneous decision (after we talked about the song) to add it to the Praise & Worship set for the morning. He, his wife, his daughter, and I sang it as our 2ND of 4 songs. We sounded good. The song sounded good. It’s got powerful lyrics. I have a feeling that it’ll be a regular worship song on Sunday mornings.

TOP 40 OF 400 – This October I’ll present my Top 40 songs of the first 400 weeks of this chart. Patrick Mayberry’s “Lead On Good Shepherd” ties the record 30 weeks set back in March of 2019 when Tauren Wells’ “Known” did it as well. “Known” is currently # 21 on my Top 40 chart.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime simply by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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Be blessed my friends ! May our 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.