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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2009

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 7, 2019

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 10, 15, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 10 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 07TH 2009:

“Open Season” – Air Five
“Mock The Music” – Children 18:3
“The Difference” – Philmont
“Control” – Clemency
“The Unavoidable Battle Of Feeling On The Outside” – FM Static

4 of the 5 songs above were actually the Top 4 songs of all of 2009 on my personal hit music chart. The one lone song that wasn’t was Children 18:3’s “Mock The Music” – which was the # 19 song of the year. 62 songs made my chart in 2009, and that was the final full year of the “Salvation Era” of my chart. It was also the final full year that I listened to Christian music on the radio. Starting in 2010 I “flipped” to classic pop hits of the ’60s and ’70s. That “flip” also ended this personal hit music chart, and it began a 7-year hiatus.

I saw “Weird Al” Yankovic LIVE in concert at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale last night. The near sellout crowd of over 2,500 sang along and applauded as “Weird Al” plowed through over 20 of his hits over the past 36 years during his 90-minute show. He was backed by a full orchestra, and they were also his opening act for about 15 minutes.

Perhaps the most interesting (and longest) song he performed was an awesome track titled, “The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota”. It’s an original song – written by Al himself – but it sounds like a breezy ’70s pop song. (Think Gordon Lightfoot.) I had never heard it before. After the show (and back at the hotel) I went online, and I realized that the song was on his “UHF” movie soundtrack album from 1989 ! It also clocks-in at an amazing 6:50.

“Weird Al” always puts on a great show. I’ve been a fan of him since I was 16 years old in 1983, and WJOK-AM (“All Comedy Radio”) out of Gaithersburg Maryland stunted one night with his debut song “Ricky”. This was only my 2ND “Weird Al” concert. I saw him in 2015 too. I’ll keep seeing him as he keeps performing.

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

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 120

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 3, 2019

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 02ND 2019:

“Born Again” – Austin French [# 1 last week / 14TH week on chart]
“Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co. [2 / 15TH]
“Resurrecting” – Elevation Worship [3 / 8TH]
“Alive” – Big Daddy Weave [4 / 12TH]
“Greatness Of Our God” – Newsboys [5 / 15TH]
“Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett [8 / 8TH]
“Is He Worthy ?” – Chris Tomlin [6 / 9TH]
“Greater Things” – Mack Brock [9 / 3RD]
”Build My Life” – Pat Barrett [- / 5TH]
“Scars” – I AM THEY [10 / 4TH]

# 1 One Year Ago This Week:
“The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett

# 1 Two Years Ago This Week:
“Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

Austin French remains at # 1 for a 2ND week with the adopted theme song of the past (nearly) 13 years of my life. I am “Born Again” !

♫ I was down on my luck. I was stuck. I was running ’round broken-hearted. I was sinking so fast. I couldn’t last. Falling apart. And You could’ve ran away. Leaving me there in my shame. Leaving me fighting my pain. But You made a better way. ♫

This upcoming Sunday night starting at 9 PM EDT (U.S. East Coast time) I’ll be watching the K-LOVE Fan Awards on TBN, and I’ll be live-tweeting during the show @ChrisMDay.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again next weekend – 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. Enjoy this week my friends. I’m on Twitter @ChrisMDay, and I’m also the man behind the tweets for my church @LivingWatersHFL. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him. AMEN.

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Social Media RoundUp

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 30, 2019

It’s Thursday. It’s 3 AM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) here in South Florida U.S.A. I’m hopefully sound asleep right now. I wrote this last night just before I went to bed, and I set it to publish at this time.

It’s time to kickoff another weekend of blogging here at CountUp Ministries. My blogging weekends typically begin early on Thursday mornings, and they end on Monday nights with my new Top 10 personal hit music chart.

This blog continues to expand worldwide, so I thought it would be a good idea to update you on my ongoing social media activities.

I’m barely on Facebook. I don’t even promote it anymore. I’m only on there because I still have a few friends who are still on there. I don’t post material on there anymore. I only “like” or “love” or “haha” or “wow” or comment on my friends’ posts. I left Facebook after almost 5 years because there’s just too much fake news, nonsense, profanity, hatred, and racism over there. People say things over there that they would never say in public.

In a couple of months I’ll be observing my 10TH anniversary on Twitter. I’m @ChrisMDay (that’s my real name), and to date I’ve posted over 7,800 tweets. That’s an average of about 2 per day over the past 10 years. If you’re reading this blog post at http://www.revchrismday.com then you can always check out my last 5 tweets over on the right-hand column (just scroll down a little bit). Coming up on Sunday June 09TH starting at 9 PM EDT I’ll be live-tweeting during the K-LOVE Fan Awards broadcast on TBN.

I’m on Flickr, and I’ve been on there for the past 8 years. I’ve been actively posting a lot of vacation photos on there recently – in fact over 225 new photos over the past 6 months. I caption all of my photos too. They mean a lot to me. They bring back a lot of good memories away from home. They are the “best of the best”, and they represent less than half of all of the photos that I take at any given location. You can always check out my last 5 photos over on the right-hand column (just below my tweets). There’s also a link there to access my entire Flickr site.

Finally I’m here on WordPress. I came here towards the end of 2007 after a short stint on Myspace (where my blog was born). I disappeared for about 7 years (defecting to Twitter and Facebook), but then I returned at the start of last year (2018). This now serves as my official web site, and it’s the home page of my online ministry.

Not every blog post you read on here will be about my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, but most of them will be. He is the center of my life. I am His servant. My ministry’s mission statement is “sharing God’s Good News through His music”. I hope to do that and glorify God at all times.

I’ll never get political on social media. I’ll never get political in real life – away from technology. Some of my viewpoints are rather extreme on both ends of the political spectrum (left and right), and they are mine to keep to myself. I’ll continue to vote for those politicians who I believe share the majority of my political viewpoints.

I’ll continue to tweet, post photos, and blog along this fantastic journey. As a reader / viewer I’m happy to have you here to walk alongside me !

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 119

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 28, 2019

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. But due to the Memorial Day holiday yesterday I’m doing it on Tuesday. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 26TH 2019:

“Born Again” – Austin French [# 3 last week / 13TH week on chart]
“Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co. [4 / 14TH]
“Resurrecting” – Elevation Worship [7 / 7TH]
“Alive” – Big Daddy Weave [1 / 11TH]
“Greatness Of Our God” – Newsboys [2 / 14TH]
“Is He Worthy ?” – Chris Tomlin [6 / 8TH]
“Confidence” – Sanctus Real [5 / 14TH]
“Prize Worth Fighting For” – Jamie Kimmett [9 / 7TH]
“Greater Things” – Mack Brock [10 / 2ND]
“Scars” – I AM THEY [8 / 3RD]

# 1 One Year Ago This Week:
“The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett

# 1 Two Years Ago This Week:
“Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

Austin French scores his 2ND consecutive # 1 smash here on my chart, and he does it in a much different way than his debut smash “Freedom Hymn”. That was a short-lived (8-weeks overall) hit that debuted at # 3, went to # 2 a week later, and then ascended to # 1 in its 3RD week where it stayed for 4 weeks in a row. This time he spent 13 weeks to reach # 1 with “Born Again”, and it stopped at every chart position along the way except for # 8 and # 2.

Great lyrics for a great song. It’s the theme song for my fantastic journey !

Summer has begun, and I’m continuing my annual tradition. I’ll be crunching the numbers all summer long, and on a special compilation chart on Tuesday September 03RD I’ll present my Top 10 hits of the Summer Of 2019 based on the 15 weekly charts between now and then.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again next weekend (which starts in just 48 hours) – 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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