July 6, 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 July 05TH 2026 – the 490TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	3	6	Washed [1ST week @ # 1]	Elevation Rhythm
2	1	25	Finished	Caleb & John
3	2	15	Everything Is Better	Hopeful.
4	5	25	Where Would I Be	Peter Burton
5	8	10	Somebody’s Praying	Bay Turner
6	4	12	Worthy Of It All (Worthy)	CeCe Winans
7	7	10	demons	Josiah Queen
8	–	1	The Author	Brandon Lake Ft. Nick Jonas
9	9	8	Perfectly	Micah Tyler
10	–	1	Ain’t No Way	Jamie MacDonald

2025 – “The King Is In The Room” – Phil Wickham
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Holy Forever” – Chris Tomlin
2022 – “Me On Your 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

ELEVATION RHYTHM – “Washed” was a surprise re-entry 2 weeks ago, my fastest climber (surging 4 notches into my Top 3) last week, and now it’s my new # 1 smash. It’s also # 1 on the national airplay charts. The young crew from Charlotte North Carolina’s Elevation Church also hit # 1 with their debut hit “Goodbye Yesterday” 16 months ago.

SALVATION ERA – The #CountUp continues. I don’t understand what an “F-Stop” is, but it has to do with cameras and photography. And Sullivan’s song “F-Stop” does indeed mention photographs within its quirky lyrics. I particularly like the lyrics that go – “If you don’t believe in God you will now. I’ve got hooks and a chain that will fit you well. So save your air.” This hard pop-punk track was all over younger-skewing Christian Rock Radio in 2007. It was such a great sounding song from the Greensboro North Carolina-based band Sullivan. It spent 17 weeks on my chart, and 11 of them were stuck at # 2 – behind two other great pop-punk bands at the time – Eleventyseven and The Wedding. It was my # 3 hit of all of 2007, and it’s my # 7 hit overall from August 2006 to January 2010.

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.