May 18, 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 May 17TH 2026 – the 483RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	18	Finished [2ND week @ # 1]	Caleb & John
2	2	18	Where Would I Be	Peter Burton
3	3	8	Everything Is Better	Hopeful.
4	5	3	Father, Let It Be	Sidewalk Prophets
5	6	2	I’d Do It Again	Andrew Ripp
6	4	5	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
7	7	3	Somebody’s Praying	Bay Turner
8	8	3	demons	Josiah Queen
9	9	2	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
10	–	1	Perfectly	Micah Tyler

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Unashamed” – Matthew West
2024 – “Counting My Blessings” – Seph Schlueter
2023 – “The Lord’s Prayer (It’s Yours)” – Matt Maher
2022 – “Egypt” – Cory Asbury
2021 – “Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)” – TobyMac
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Forgiven” – Crowder

MICAH TYLER – He becomes my 14TH artist over the past 9 years to score at least a 10TH hit on my chart. “Perfectly” was released to music media outlets at the end of February, and now it’s starting to make an impact on Christian music radio stations from coast-to-coast. It’s got a great uplifting sound to it – and of course a great message about our God who gives us grace and love. He does it perfectly.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Bay Turner was featured on Season 17 (2022) of one of my favorite summer TV shows – NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”. He was not selected as one of the Top 55 acts. He’s got a hit on the radio though. This concludes my look-back at one-hit wonders that I started almost 10 months ago with David Dunn – an alumni of NBC’s “The Voice”.

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.