My Top 5 Artists – 500 Weeks

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. Today it’s a special chart of my Top 5 artists of the first 500 weeks of this current era of my chart:

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Up + Up” – Colton Dixon
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “What If” – Matthew West
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

4 MALE SOLO ARTISTS & MERCYME – Matthew West, MercyMe, Phil Wickham, Micah Tyler, and Chris Tomlin are my Top 5 artists over the first 500 weeks of my chart (since February 2017). They account for 57 total hits, 25 # 1 hits and 93 weeks at # 1. Matthew West leads the pack with 7 # 1 hits. He also has more total weeks on my chart (197) than any other artist. But MercyMe actually leads all artists for total weeks at # 1 (29). The “HTS” column is the total number of hits for each artist, and none of them are shaded in green. That’s because TobyMac – my # 6 artist – leads that category with a total of 17 hits since 2017. There’s a good chance that TobyMac will replace Chris Tomlin at # 5 in the coming months as long as “Lord It Feels Good” continues its forward momentum.

MY TOP 10 HITS – My regular weekly chart resumes next Monday October 12TH 2026 with Week 504.

My # 19 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010 is a hard-rocker from Disciple. They hit my chart with 7 different songs during my Salvation Era. Back at # 8 was their anthemic power ballad “After The World”, and at # 19 it’s their high-octane sports anthem “Game On” – a # 1 smash from December 2007. WWE actually used “Game On” in its big event marketing back then, and the NFL used team-customized versions of “Game On” at football games.

Next week it’s my # 20 hit that you can easily get addicted to once you see its music video.

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.