March 16, 2026 – 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 March 15TH 2026 – the 474TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	Where Would I Be [7TH week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	2	9	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
3	3	11	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac X Forrest Frank
4	5	3	I’ve Got A Fire	Pat Barrett
5	4	9	Finished	Caleb & John
6	6	22	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
7	7	8	The Love I Have For You	Colton Dixon
8	8	3	Keep Holding On	Jeremy Rosado
9	9	7	Make It Well	MercyMe
10	10	6	Good	Matthew West

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Never Get Used To This” – Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE
2024 – “Hallelujah Anyway” – Rend Collective
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Brighter Days” – Blessing Offor
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

ELVIS – Last Tuesday I saw “EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert” at my local movie theatre. It far-exceeded my expectations for it. Director Baz Luhrmann did a fantastic job, and I loved every minute of it. I saw it in a surprisingly crowded theatre for a Tuesday afternoon, and I wasn’t the only one who was subtly dancing in my heated reclining chair. I was not a fan of Elvis or his music until just recently – during my 1970s rejuvenation in the 2010s. He was at the end of his career (and life) during the 1970s, and “EPiC” thoroughly covers those years of his Las Vegas residency.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Housefires scored a surprise runaway # 1 smash at the end of 2023 with “I Thank God” – also featuring JWLKRS Worship. It spent 9 weeks at the top of my chart, and it was my # 10 hit overall of 2023. (It was also my # 21 hit overall of 2024.) In 2026 our Praise + Worship band at my home church performs their version of the song on a regular basis. Before 2018 Pat Barrett was part of Housefires. His 5TH solo single is currently in my Top 5.

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.