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 October 18TH 2026 – the 505TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:
| TW | LW | WKS | SONG TITLE | ARTIST / SITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 16 | Gonna Be Alright [4TH week @ # 1] |
Matt Maher |
| 2 | 3 | 9 | If It Was Up To Me | Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood |
| 3 | 2 | 9 | Living Water | Cain |
| 4 | 4 | 8 | Lord It Feels Good | TobyMac |
| 5 | 5 | 11 | It Really Is Amazing Grace | Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder |
| 6 | 6 | 5 | Holding On (Praise God) | Jon Reddick |
| 7 | 7 | 4 | Hard Place | Jaye King |
| 8 | 10 | 2 | Beautiful Life | Switchfoot |
| 9 | 8 | 15 | Breathe On It | Tauren Wells |
| 10 | 9 | 11 | God I’m Just Grateful | Chandler Moore |
2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Up + Up” – Colton Dixon
2023 – “Praise The Lord” – Micah Tyler
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “What If” – Matthew West
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “The Gospel” – Ryan Stevenson
SWITCHFOOT – So this happened last week. One of my favorite rock bands of the mid-2000s (before I turned to Christ) entered my chart for the first time in over 18 years. “Beautiful Life” debuted on my chart at # 10, and this week it’s up 2 notches to # 8. Back during my Salvation Era – Switchfoot hit 3 times with “Oh ! Gravity” (# 4 in 2006), “Awakening” (# 2 in 2007), and “This Is Home” (# 5 in 2008). Before that – they hit # 1 on my chart with their first 2 songs (both in 2004) – “Meant To Live” and “Dare You To Move”. They also charted with “Stars” (# 14 in 2005). They are the very rare artist that has spanned 3 distinct eras of my weekly hit music chart.
My # 21 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010 is from Air Five – led by Ben Peeples – with Michael Segarra on bass and Taylor Carroll on drums. Their debut album “Write My Story” was released in May 2007, but it wasn’t until 2 years later when the energetic “Open Season” exploded at Christian Pop radio – at least in South Florida. It spent 11 consecutive weeks at # 1 on my chart, and it was my # 1 smash of all of 2009. Their follow-up radio hit – “Here’s Me Letting Go” – was another awesome song, and had my chart existed after January 2010 it too would’ve likely been a long-running # 1 smash.
Next week it’s my # 22 hit. It’s from a band that brought me to church for the first time as an adult almost 20 years ago.
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.
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