August 19, 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 August 18TH 2024 – the 392ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	11	Take You At Your Word [1ST week @ # 1]	Cody Carnes
2	4	8	Good Day	Forrest Frank
3	1	17	Somebody Like Me	Caleb & John Ft. Cain
4	3	15	Beautiful Life	Pat Barrett
5	5	6	Take It All Back	Tauren Wells
6	8	2	Count ‘Em	Brandon Lake
7	6	7	Nothin’ Sweeter	TobyMac
8	7	9	Miracle Child	Brandon Lake
9	10	2	Do It Again	Steven Curtis Chapman
10	–	1	Just As You Are	Ryan Stevenson

# 1 This Week In:
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Hold You Tight” – Dan Bremnes
2021 – “When We Fall Apart” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
2020 – “There Was Jesus” – Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Hard Love” – NEEDTOBREATHE

RYAN STEVENSON – I enjoy compiling and looking back at # 1 hits this week in history. This is a big turnover week for new # 1 hits – representing 5 out of the past 8 years (including this week). Ryan Stevenson hit # 1 exactly 3 years ago with a song that was an emotional tribute to his Mom in Heaven. It was underrated, and it underperformed nationally. It should have crossed over to mainstream pop and country radio. It should have won awards. It spent 15 weeks on my chart – 14 in my Top 5. It could’ve likely gone another 10 weeks had it been supported by continued radio airplay. As his 8TH hit debuts on my chart this week – I present the official lyric video of his 6TH hit from the Summer of 2021:

TOP 40 OF 400 – And speaking of Ryan Stevenson – his “When We Fall Apart” is his biggest hit of this current era, but it missed my Top 40 by far. I’ll present my Top 40 hits cumulatively of the first 400 weeks (since February 2017) this October.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime 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.