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My Top 10 Hits – Week 502

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 28, 2026
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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 September 27TH 2026 – the 502ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	13	Gonna Be Alright [1ST week @ # 1]	Matt Maher
2	1	8	It Really Is Amazing Grace	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
3	3	6	Living Water	Cain
4	6	5	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
5	8	6	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
6	4	12	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
7	5	8	God I’m Just Grateful	Chandler Moore
8	–	1	Hard Place	Jaye King
9	10	2	Holding On (Praise God)	Jon Reddick
10	9	4	OKAY !	Forrest Frank

2025 – “Breakdown” – Andrew Ripp
2024 – “Up + Up” – Colton Dixon
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

SPECIAL CHART NEXT WEEK – “My Top 10 Hits – Week 503” will not be presented next week. Instead – I’ll be presenting a special chart featuring “My Top 5 Artists – 500 Weeks”. It’ll be a look back at the 5 most successful artists on my chart during the first 500 weeks of this current era. All of the other regular features (above and below this section) will also be presented in next week’s special edition.

My # 18 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010 is from a Dallas Texas area based band that was originally known as Screaming Mimes – and then Blisse. They formed in 1999 out of a Starbucks in Mesquite Texas. They changed their name to The Afters in 2001. If you’re a regular here on #MusicMonday then you’ll know that The Afters have been somewhat active here on my chart during this current era since 2017 with 3 out of 4 # 1 smash hits. And they were also on my chart a decade earlier in late-2007 and deep into 2008 with their big radio hit “Never Going Back To OK”. They are the rare artist who has appeared during both Christian music eras of my chart.

Next week it’s my # 19 hit, and it’s a hard rockin’ track that maybe you heard inside of a stadium at an NFL game.

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.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 501

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 21, 2026
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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 September 20TH 2026 – the 501ST week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	7	It Really Is Amazing Grace [2ND week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
2	2	12	Gonna Be Alright	Matt Maher
3	5	5	Living Water	Cain
4	3	11	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
5	4	7	God I’m Just Grateful	Chandler Moore
6	8	4	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
7	7	17	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
8	6	5	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
9	9	3	OKAY !	Forrest Frank
10	–	1	Holding On (Praise God)	Jon Reddick

MATT MAHER – He’s holding on at # 2 for the 2ND week in a row, and I’m thinking that it’s “Gonna Be Alright” for him. If he makes it to # 1 then it would be his 3RD # 1 smash (out of 4 songs). His only other non-# 1 smash was in 2020 when “Alive & Breathing” spent 5 weeks at # 2 and spent 25 weeks on my chart. That was such a great uplifting song for such a dark uncertain period of time (during the COVID pandemic).

My # 17 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010 is the first of 5 hits from the guys from upstate South Carolina known as Eleventyseven. “Love In Your Arms” was their 3RD radio single overall, and it was their debut single from their August 2007 album “Galactic Conquest”. This is what happens when you combine pop, punk, and synth to sing about God:

Next week it’s my # 18 hit, and it’s from a band that hit # 4 in 2008 with a long-running hit – and they also spent 3 weeks at # 1 last year !

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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The Renaissance City

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. Last week I wrote about Huntsville and Decatur Alabama. On my upcoming American Cruise Lines paddlewheeler ship we will cruise from Decatur westward less than 40 miles to our next port-of-call. It’ll be a slow and meticulous 40 miles over the course of 6 hours as we drop nearly 140 feet in elevation. We’ll essentially be dropping from the Upper Tennessee River to the Lower Tennessee River via a couple of dams and locks that will lower the ship gradually like an elevator. Before the dams were constructed from the late-1910s to the mid-1930s that stretch of river was shallow and rocky with steep sudden drops creating rapids and waterfalls.

That 6-hour trek downstream will occur late at night, so unless I’m out on my balcony watching us enter the locks, lower, and exit the locks – I’ll probably be sleeping right through it.

As the dawn of a new day arrives I’ll be waking up in Alabama’s Renaissance City – Florence. It’s actually 1 of 4 cities that form what locals affectionately call “The Shoals”. Florence (about 45,000 residents), Muscle Shoals (about 18,000), Sheffield (about 9,000), and Tuscumbia (about 9,000) make up the region that collectively include well over 150,000 residents including adjacent smaller towns and communities.

Fun Facts: Historic routes U.S. 43 and U.S. 72 meet in the region, and they form a concurrency through The Shoals. U.S. 43 runs 410 miles from Columbia Tennessee southward to Mobile. U.S. 72 runs 318 miles from Memphis eastward to Chattanooga. There are long-term plans to upgrade U.S. 43 along the entire western Alabama corridor from Florence to Mobile to Interstate standards. Decades from now it could perhaps be I-63 (not currently in-use).

That day will be busy for me in Florence. (The ship will be docked at Florence Harbor Marina adjacent to McFarland Park.) I’ll be part of a guided tour of multiple historic Shoals music studios in the morning. That afternoon I’ll be visiting Ivy Green – a historic house museum in Tuscumbia. It’s the birthplace and childhood home of Helen Keller.

I’m looking forward to my two days of cruising the Tennessee River in northern Alabama (203 miles across the state). Hopefully the Fall weather is nice, so that I can fully enjoy Huntsville, Decatur, and The Shoals.

And that’s a hint as to when this cruise will actually occur. Some of you close to me already know when I’ll be on this cruise, so if you know then you know to keep it between us. Everyone else will find out all about this cruise when I actually begin writing about it after I return home.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about Savannah Tennessee. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 500

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 14, 2026
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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 September 13TH 2026 – the 500TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	6	It Really Is Amazing Grace [1ST week @ # 1]	Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder
2	3	11	Gonna Be Alright	Matt Maher
3	1	10	Breathe On It	Tauren Wells
4	4	6	God I’m Just Grateful	Chandler Moore
5	6	4	Living Water	Cain
6	7	4	If It Was Up To Me	Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood
7	5	16	Washed	Elevation Rhythm
8	9	3	Lord It Feels Good	TobyMac
9	10	2	OKAY !	Forrest Frank
10	8	11	Perfectly	Micah Tyler

2025 – “Breakdown” – Andrew Ripp
2024 – “Up + Up” – Colton Dixon
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “Hold You Tight” – Dan Bremnes
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

PHIL & DAVE – Wickham & Crowder teamed-up for “It Really Is Amazing Grace”. They each recorded their vocals for the track in their own studios a little less than a year ago, and then it was mixed together. They came together for the official music video as well as a LIVE recording of the song. And now – it has ascended to the top spot on my chart. My new # 1 smash:

My # 16 hit during my first 3½ years of salvation in Christ from August 2006 to January 2010 is from Mike Herrera, Tom Wisniewski, and Yuri Ruley out of Bremerton Washington (near Seattle). They formed MxPx (originally Magnified Plaid) as 15-year-olds in high school in 1992. “You’re On Fire” was their 2ND of 4 hits on my chart in 2007 and 2008. It spent 2 weeks at the top of my chart at the start of August 2007.

Next week it’s my # 17 hit from a numbered band out of upstate South Carolina.

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.