Category: Music

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 November 01ST 2026 – the 507TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	18	Gonna Be Alright [6TH week @ # 1]	Matt Maher
2	2	11	Living Water	Cain
3	3	11	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
4	6	4	Beautiful Life	Switchfoot
5	4	10	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
6	5	13	It Really Is Amazing Grace	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
7	9	2	So Long	Peter Burton
8	10	2	What If I Told You ?	for King + Country
9	–	1	What Grace Can Do	Cochren & Co.
10	–	1	How Good God Is	Brandon Lake

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
2023 – “Praise The Lord” – Micah Tyler
2022 – “New Creation” – Mac Powell
2021 – “Promised Land” – TobyMac
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

PETER BURTON – Last week he quietly entered my chart with his follow-up song that took “So Long” to arrive. While his debut smash “Where Would I Be” entered my chart early in 2026 (January) – long before it was receiving substantial radio airplay – “So Long” is entering late – long after it began playing on the radio and establishing itself as another hit. It’s currently in the Top 20 nationwide. Now it’s Top 10 here.

We’re up to my # 23 hit from my Salvation Era, and it’s from the Columbus Ohio band Everyday Sunday. They were quite popular at Christian radio during the mid-to-late-2000s. “Let’s Go Back” was their 2ND of 5 hits on my chart, and it was the biggest of them all. It peaked at # 3 for 6 non-consecutive weeks, and it spent 17 weeks on my chart in 2007.

♬ Why are we waiting on someone else to tell us how it should be ?
I’ve already found it, and God didn’t tell me to waste these dreams. ♬

Next week it’s my # 24 hit that’s good for you in small doses.

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.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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 25TH 2026 – the 506TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	17	Gonna Be Alright [5TH week @ # 1]	Matt Maher
2	3	10	Living Water	Cain
3	2	10	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
4	4	9	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
5	5	12	It Really Is Amazing Grace	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
6	8	3	Beautiful Life	Switchfoot
7	6	6	Holding On (Praise God)	Jon Reddick
8	7	5	Hard Place	Jaye King
9	–	1	So Long	Peter Burton
10	–	1	What If I Told You ?	for King + Country

2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
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 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

BEN, CARRIE, TAYLOR, MADISON, & LOGAN – We have two songs vying for the # 2 spot behind Matt Maher. Last week Ben Fuller and Carrie Underwood rose to # 2 with “If It Was Up To Me”. They recorded it together about 21 months ago in a Nashville studio. This week – and the week before last week – the Cain siblings rose to # 2 with “Living Water”. It’s their 7TH hit on my chart. Their 1ST hit was # 1 exactly 6 years ago.

We’re up to my # 22 hit from my Salvation Era, and as I teased last week it’s from a band that brought me to church for the first time as an adult almost 20 years ago. The date – Saturday January 20TH 2007. I was exactly 5 months into my salvation, and I was looking to be a part of a church family because I knew that I could no longer get closer to God as an orphan on my own.

I started hearing promos on Call FM (91.7) – an over-the-air radio station at the time in Miami-Dade County Florida playing Christian rock, pop, hip hop, and dance. It was the radio station’s birthday, and they would be celebrating at Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida – 3 miles from my longtime home. Manic Drive was the headlining act of their birthday concert. I knew Manic Drive from their radio hit at the time – “Middle Of It All”. I went to that concert solo. As I recall – it was a show-up and pay-cash-at-the-door concert. As I also recall – I was probably the oldest person at that concert – at the age of 39.

The very next morning I attended my first church service as an adult. Their church services were actually held at the new movie theatre on the other side of town – not at their actual church building.

At # 22 it’s Manic Drive’s “Eleven Regrets” – their biggest and longest-running hit during that era – peaking at # 3 and spending 24 weeks on my chart in 2007 and into 2008.

Let’s Go Back next week for my # 23 hit.

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.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp