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. And now – it’s a special based on all of my weekly charts of this year – My Top 25 Hits of 2025:
| RK | PTS | PK | WKS | SONG TITLE | ARTIST / SITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 204 | 1 | 28 | What An Awesome God | Phil Wickham |
| 2 | 167 | 1 | 26 | Breakdown | Andrew Ripp |
| 3 | 149 | 1 | 21 | God Did It | Micah Tyler |
| 4 | 148 | 1 | 22 | Can’t Steal My Joy | Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake |
| 5 | 141 | 1 | 23 | The King Is In The Room | Phil Wickham |
| 6 | 137 | 1 | 23 | Oh Death | MercyMe |
| 7 | 131 | 1 | 20 | Money Can’t Buy | Cochren & Co. |
| 8 | 122 | 2 | 24 | Jesus Loves | Zach Williams |
| 9 | 110 | 1 | 15 | Unashamed | Matthew West |
| 10 | 100 | 1 | 16 | You Never Gave Up On Me | The Afters |
| 11 | 97 | 1 | 12 | In The Name Of Jesus | JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music |
| 12 | 87 | 2 | 12 | Dusty Bibles | Josiah Queen |
| 13 | 86 | 1 | 15 | A Lil Church (Nobody’s Too Lost) | TobyMac |
| 14 | 82 | 1 | 11 | How Good It Is | Chris Tomlin |
| 15 | 79 | 1 | 10 | Running Back To You | Seph Schlueter |
| 16 | 78 | 2 | 13 | Love’s Got A Way | Andrew Ripp |
| 17 | 69 | 4 | 20 | No Fear | Jon Reddick |
| 18 | 68 | 1 | 12 | Goodbye Yesterday | Elevation Rhythm |
| 19 | 66 | 2 | 14 | Still | Crowder |
| 20 | 64 | 1 | 8 | Do It Again | Steven Curtis Chapman |
| 21 | 64 | 2 | 12 | Let It Begin | Big Daddy Weave |
| 22 | 60 | 1 | 11 | Never Get Used To This | Forrest Frank Ft. JVKE |
| 23 | 60 | 3 | 9 | That’s Who I Praise | Brandon Lake |
| 24 | 57 | 3 | 9 | Preach | Ryan Stevenson Ft. Matt Hammitt |
| 25 | 48 | 4 | 9 | Lift Me Up | Blessing Offor |
# 1 For The Year In:
2024 – “Lead On Good Shepherd” – Patrick Mayberry
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “See Me Through It” – Brandon Heath
2021 – “Fires” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West
PHIL WICKHAM – His 12TH hit since 2018 is his biggest hit ever, and it’s also my # 1 smash of the entire year (by a large 37-point margin over my # 2 hit). “What An Awesome God” entered my chart during the 4TH weekend of June while its predecessor – “The King Is In The Room” – was in its 7TH week on my chart. The latter would reach # 1 a couple of weeks later and spend a total of 23 weeks on my chart – finishing as my # 5 hit of 2025. Phil’s 2 hits combined spent 5 weeks at # 1, 9 weeks at # 2, and 5 weeks at # 3. Out of a combined 51 weeks on my chart – “What An Awesome God” and “The King Is In The Room” spent 38 weeks in my Top 5. This Just In – Phil Wickham had an awesome 2025 as he glorified our awesome God – the King !
ANDREW RIPP – His (not a) “Breakdown” was my # 2 hit of the entire year, as it spent 5 weeks at # 1 and 26 weeks on my chart from June to December. Never underestimate a song that spent its first 4 weeks at # 10 & # 9. It was his follow-up to “Love’s Got A Way” – which also spent 26 weeks on my chart (from October 2024 to March 2025). It was my # 17 hit of 2024, and it was also my # 16 hit of 2025. Its chart run was split evenly between 2024 and 2025 at 13 weeks apiece. Andrew is my # 13 artist over the past (nearly) 9 years with his 6 hits. Not bad since his first hit – “Jericho” – didn’t arrive until October 2020, and it was a # 1 smash.
JOSIAH QUEEN X BRANDON LAKE – Aside from Phil Wickham and Andrew Ripp – the other 2 artists with 2 songs apiece on my Top 25 Of 2025 are Josiah and Brandon. They did it together on one song – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – which was my longest-running # 1 smash of 2025 at 10 weeks. Josiah followed it up with “Dusty Bibles”, and Brandon preceded it with the final 9 weeks of “That’s Who I Praise” – which also finished as the # 16 hit of 2024.
REPEATING ARTISTS – Phil Wickham, Andrew Ripp, Josiah Queen, Brandon Lake, JWLKRS Worship, TobyMac, Seph Schlueter, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Forrest Frank are the 9 artists who were also on My Top 24 Of 2024 chart a year ago. Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake, JWLKRS Worship, and TobyMac have now been on my last 3 year-end charts. My # 1 artist of this current era – Matthew West – who ended a 7-year streak on my year-end chart (from 2017 to 2023) – was back on for 2025 with his big hit “Unashamed”.
CONCLUSION – My Top 25 Of 2025 chart was compiled by awarding 10 points for each week at # 1, 9 points for # 2, and so forth and so on down to 1 point for # 10. The points were then added, and the hits were ranked. 49 songs charted in 2025. That’s way down from the 58 songs that charted in 2024. There were 16 # 1 hits, and they all made it onto my chart above. 5 hits peaked at # 2, and they all made it onto my chart above. It was a great year for positive and encouraging music on the radio that told the story of God and gave Him all of the glory. What a great chart to represent His music. Let’s continue to praise and worship Him as we go forth into 2026.
SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 25 Of 2025” anytime by accessing my playlist on Spotify. All 25 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 25, or you can shuffle them. You can link to it here. It’s 1 hour and 27 minutes of the greatest hits of 2025 !
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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.
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