August 18, 2025 – 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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday August 17TH 2025 – the 444TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	What An Awesome God [2ND week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham
2	2	13	God Did It	Micah Tyler
3	3	10	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
4	4	20	Jesus Loves	Zach Williams
5	10	2	Preach	Ryan Stevenson Ft. Matt Hammitt
6	5	15	The King Is In The Room	Phil Wickham
7	7	21	Oh Death	MercyMe
8	6	18	No Fear	Jon Reddick
9	8	3	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
10	–	1	Come Jesus Come	CeCe Winans

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Take You At Your Word” – Cody Carnes
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
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 – His catchy “Preach” is his 9TH hit on my chart. It quietly entered my chart at # 10 last week, and this week it moves up 5 notches to # 5. I love the song, and it deserves more airplay on the radio. Assisting him is Matt Hammitt – who you may know as the 19-year lead singer of Sanctus Real from 1996 to 2015. Ryan was # 1 exactly 4 years ago with one of my favorites from 2021 – and another collaboration – with Vince Gill and Amy Grant. (That song also deserved more radio airplay than it got.)

ONE-HIT WONDER – Jasmine Murray spent 5 weeks on my chart in May and into June 2017 with her uplifting track “Fearless”. It was the only time she appeared on my chart. Nationally she followed-up “Fearless” with another Top 10 radio favorite – “For God So Loved”. She was a finalist during the 2009 season of “American Idol”.

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.

Your likes, follows, and comments are always appreciated. Thank You for being part of my online ministry to share God’s Good News and win souls for Christ through His music. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.