Author: Chris M. Day

I'm 59 years old. I've been online for 33 years - starting with my own dial-up bulletin board system in 1993 - and continuing with AOL, my own dot.com web site, Myspace, WordPress, Twitter / X, Flickr, and Facebook.

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 4, 2020

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 15, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 04TH 2005:

“Photograph” – Nickelback
“Wake Me Up When September Ends” – Green Day
“Hung Up” – Madonna
“Gold Digger” – Kanye West
“Check On It” – Beyoncé Ft. Slim Thug

Madonna’s final song ever on my chart – “Hung Up” – peaked at # 3 on this weekend in December of 2005, and I couldn’t remember it at all. So I went to YouTube to watch the official music video for it, and I still can’t remember ever hearing it before; yet, it was my 3RD favorite song of the week back then.

It’s a solid track, and it’s a got a good #EDM sound to it. It sounds very European – which was very typical of her music back in the late-1990s / early-2000s. It samples an old ABBA track – “Gimme ! Gimme ! Gimme !”.

“Hung Up” spent 18 weeks on my chart into January and February of 2006, but I think I heard it for the first time today. #ObviouslyNot #BadMemory

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to December 1995.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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Winter Season Premiere

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 3, 2020

Greetings my friends ! This post serves as my U.S. Winter Season Premiere. There was not the usual break this year between my Autumn season of blog posts and my Winter season. The fact of the matter is that November was (by far) my biggest month ever as far as readership, so I wanted to keep the forward momentum going during Thanksgiving Week here in the U.S. when I would normally be on hiatus.

So my blogging continues this Winter with no expected breaks in action. You can expect new blog posts published on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays at 3 AM U.S. East Coast Time, so that’s 8 AM in Great Britain, 10 AM in South Africa, 1:30 PM in India, 4 PM in Singapore, and 9 PM in New Zealand. Thank You for following my blog from all around the world !

As a general guideline each new weekend of blog posts begins on a Thursday, and my Thursday posts can be about anything and everything. My Friday posts are about pop music history from my own vast archives going back 35 years. My Sunday and Monday posts are Christ-centered with a short message on Sunday, and my favorite positive and encouraging songs of the week on Monday.

This blog was created on Myspace back in May of 2007. 6 months later I moved it here to WordPress. This post begins my 14TH year here on WordPress. You can still read every single blog post that has ever been published by me here on WordPress (1,861 and counting), but don’t look for any from 2013 to 2017. (My blog was published solely on Facebook during that time.)

To my fellow bloggers who also read my blog – keep doing what you do. I enjoy reading many of your blogs, and I’m glad that you’re staying active as a blogger during these times when blogging is so passé / “old school”. I guess we’re about 15 years past its prime, but I’d rather do this than waste countless hours of brain energy reading all about other people’s narrow viewpoints and prejudices on Facebook and Twitter. Hatred and negativity thrives over there.

Well that’s all for this Thursday blog post about anything and everything. It’s my first of 18 posts in December. It’s going to be a fun month on here, as we wrap-up 2020 and prepare for 2021. Let’s do this together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 198

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 30, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 29TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	9	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
2	1	13	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
3	4	13	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
4	3	14	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	7	3	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
6	6	8	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
7	8	3	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
8	–	1	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
9	–	1	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	–	1	Sparrows	Cory Asbury

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

Happy 35TH Anniversary ! 35 years ago this weekend this weekly hit music chart was born. Aside from a 3-year hiatus (1992-1995) and a 7-year hiatus (2010-2017) this chart has been going strong ever since I was a teenager living in the south of England. It’s gone through many different genres of music from pop to hip hop to hard rock to electronic dance to Christian. We’re in the 198TH week of this current era that started in the middle of February of 2017, and the hits keep counting up !

Andrew Ripp becomes the 3RD artist in a row to secure the # 1 spot with his very first hit (following Cain and Matty Mullins). His “Jericho” is my new # 1 smash this week – the 13TH # 1 smash of 2020 – and the 55TH # 1 smash over the past 198 weeks. We’ll see if it can hold on into and through the month of December to wrap-up 2020.

We Are Messengers have moved-up strongly over the past couple of weeks from # 10 to # 7 to # 5. “Image Of God” is their 6TH hit since 2017. They are currently my # 10 artist overall since 2017.

20-year-old Cade Thompson has my highest new entry this week at # 8. It’s his very first appearance on my chart. When I first heard this song on K-LOVE I instantly loved it. I actually thought it was Ryan Stevenson at first, and then I finally looked it up and realized that it’s Cade Thompson. This is a quick follow-up to his earlier single this year – “Provider” – which I liked for its quirkiness, but it failed to make my chart due to a lack of radio airplay (probably because it was too quirky).

Here’s the official lyric video for Cade’s new hit, “Every Step Of The Way”:

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

Your likes, follows, and comments are always appreciated. Thank You for being part of my online ministry to share God’s Good News and win souls for Christ through His music. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

Be blessed my friends ! May the 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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Sunday Scripture

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 29, 2020

Greetings my friends ! This is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us be thankful for this new day that our God has blessed us with.

It is Sunday November 29TH 2020, and I am back home in South Florida from vacation with my family in North Texas ! I was there for 8 days, and as always it was filled with food and fun. We celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas together – known in our family as #ThanksChristmasGiving – a tradition that goes back about 15 years every traditional Thanksgiving Day. I got some great gifts this year !

My return trip back home via American Airlines was quite the bumpy ride. It was also a longer than normal ride. It took a more northerly route than its usual direct flightpath due to severe weather along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But the ride – even at 35,000 feet above southern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, and northern Alabama – was quite rough – with the A321 Airbus jumping up-and-down and swaying back-and-forth in the ferocious winds along both sides of a strong cold front. A few passengers got sick. I was worried for a few minutes that I was getting sick as well, but luckily I was OK.

Once we got above North Florida the ride suddenly became smooth and trouble-free. It remained that way for the rest of the trek to Miami International Airport.

Well just as I have done for the past 3 years on the Sunday after Thanksgiving or the first Sunday of December – I’m preaching a full sermon to my church family this morning. I got the word late this past Wednesday night in North Texas, and I was actually writing a brand new sermon in-between my family-time. I finished it late yesterday here at home. I’ll be preaching on “Spirit & Truth” today – mostly from the first-half of John Chapter 16.

When the Spirit of truth comes – He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own, but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring Me glory by telling you whatever He receives from Me. All that belongs to the Father is Mine. This is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever He receives from Me.’ (John 16:12-15)