Category: Music

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 7, 2021

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 May 07TH 2006:

“Let U Go” – Ashley Parker Angel
“Move Along” – The All-American Rejects
“Dirty Little Secret” – The All-American Rejects
“Pump It” – The Black Eyed Peas
“Beep” – The Pussycat Dolls Ft. WILL.I.AM

Well one of those songs is still a hit with me exactly 15 years later, and that’s “Dirty Little Secret”. It’s in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. It was actually my # 2 hit of all of 2006. I was about 3½ months away from the start of God’s salvation on my life. You’ll see my Top 5 “look-back” at 2006 suddenly flip to Christian rock and pop this September.

Exactly 15 years ago I ran a web site known as MASSIVESMASH.COM. It was in the middle of its 11TH year online at the time. It hosted my Top 25 weekly chart – known back then as the “Pure.Hits.Chart”. Here’s how I explained my chart just below my Top 25 that week in which “Let U Go” was at # 1:

The Pure.Hits.Chart is not based on actual raw data or statistics, but rather an intricate fusion of trends, indicatours, and factours to include retail and online activity, television, radio, street, and entertainment venue impressions, and other vital independent research. Based out of Homestead Florida U.S.A. its origins date back to November 1985. It was one of the very first weekly hit music charts (private, corporate, or otherwise) to ever publish on the World Wide Web (in November 1995). Today it is one of the most accessed and utilized privately-owned hit music charts on the web. It is consistently monitored and reviewed by numerous influential International chart compilation sites and hit music enthusiasts on the web. It is influential worldwide as commercial hit music radio station program directors, college and university radio station deejays, nightclub personalities, hit music fans, and the industry in general monitor the chart on a regular basis to determine what is currently hot, what is gaining steam, and what is cooling off. Up-and-coming hit music artists and their respective agents, producers, and labels search for their songs on the web, and they often find them right here on our chart. Positive feedback generated from all of these various sources and industries fuels the chart, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Feel free to write us at anytime !

That’s right – my web site was HUGE back then, and then it faded into obscurity.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to May 1996.

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 !

Tags 2006, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 220

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 3, 2021

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MAY 02ND 2021	WEEK 220

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	Fires [2ND week @ # 1]	Jordan St. Cyr
2	4	4	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
3	3	6	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
4	2	11	Good God Almighty	Crowder
5	7	7	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
6	5	8	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
7	6	23	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
8	8	4	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
9	9	4	No Hopeless Soul	Stephen Stanley
10	10	2	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “What A Friend” – Matt Maher
2017 – “Forgiven” – Crowder

Jordan St. Cyr hangs-on at # 1 with “Fires”. It’s currently a Top 10 hit at U.S. Christian Radio from coast-to-coast. I love the overall feel of the track. It’s quite catchy. I can still hum to it and sing to it hours after last hearing it on the radio. I especially love the bridge:

♫ I can face anything
‘Cause You’re here with me
I can do all things
‘Cause You strengthen me ♫

It was actually a very close call between # 1 and # 2. I actually had Brian & Jenn Johnson’s “God Of Revival” listed as the new # 1 smash earlier in the week, but then I slipped it down to # 2. (Some “behind-the-scenes” information for you: My chart is active as a “living document” all week long. My Top 10 hits sometimes move up and down the chart during the week, but it’s where they land by Sunday evening that ultimately counts. Sometimes a song will enter my chart during the week, but by Sunday evening it’s off again.)

BUBBLING UNDER just outside my Top 10 this week is the new track from Cain. It’s their follow-up to “Rise Up (Lazarus)” which was my # 4 hit of all of 2020. I heard “Yes He Can” on the radio for the first time last Monday, and I instantly loved it. Once I looked it up to see who sang it I was delighted to find out that it was Cain. It’s already exploding at U.S. Christian Radio where it registers the “most increased plays” this week. It should enter my chart next week, and at this point I’m already thinking that it could be a # 1 smash this Summer.

This blog is # 53 worldwide on the Top 90 Christian Music Blogs, Websites, & Influencers in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1971

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 30, 2021

It’s the 5TH Friday of the month, so it’s a special, as I go back 50 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 02ND 1971:

“Joy To The World” – Three Dog Night
“Put Your Hand In The Hand” – Ocean
“Never Can Say Goodbye” – Jackson 5
“What’s Going On” – Marvin Gaye
“I Am … I Said” – Neil Diamond

That’s obviously not my Top 5 chart from exactly 50 years ago. That’s the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 from back then. Casey Kasem (my childhood idol) counted down the hits from coast to coast on the new “American Top 40” weekly radio show, and he counted down those hits towards the end of his broadcast on that first Sunday of May of 1971.

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“Joy To The World” was the greatest Three Dog Night song ever, and one of the greatest songs of all-time as far as I’m concerned. It’s in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. It’s garnered almost 900 plays over the past 10½ years. Some people think that it was their breakthrough smash, but it was actually their 9TH Top 40 hit.

Ocean’s “Put Your Hand In The Hand” is actually a new favorite for me. I bought the single in 2012, and it’s garnered over 725 plays since then. There’s an outdoor church that meets every Sunday morning in Cambier Park over in downtown Naples Florida. One Sunday on one of my occasional visits (while on vacation) the Praise & Worship band performed that song on stage, and I realized that it was a Christian song. I may have bought the single when I returned home from Naples.

And what can I say about one of my favorite singers of all-time – Neil Diamond ? “I Am … I Said” is also in heavy rotation, and it’s one of his greatest songs ever. I’ve got 5 Neil Diamond songs currently in heavy or active rotation, and I’m getting ready to add to my Neil Diamond singles collection. His music playing on the car radio provides some of the earliest memories of my childhood in Greenbelt, Lanham, Seabrook, Glenn Dale, and Bowie in Prince Georges County Maryland.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 15 years ago to May 2006 – where there’s an Angel at # 1.

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 !

Tags 1971, Music, Radio, Top 40

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 219

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 26, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY APRIL 25TH 2021	WEEK 219

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	14	Fires [1ST week @ # 1]	Jordan St. Cyr
2	1	10	Good God Almighty	Crowder
3	3	5	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
4	4	3	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
5	5	7	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
6	6	22	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
7	8	6	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
8	9	3	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
9	10	3	No Hopeless Soul	Stephen Stanley
10	–	1	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “Even If” – MercyMe

Debut artist Jordan St. Cyr reaches # 1 on my chart with “Fires”. It’s my 4TH # 1 hit of 2021 – and 59TH # 1 hit since this era began 50 months ago. K-LOVE is my station of choice during this era. They just wrapped-up their seasonal fund drive of the past 2 weeks. It’s back to continuous positive and encourage hits now !

Incidentally this era of my weekly hit music chart is the longest era since the “pop revival” era of late-1995 to late-2001.

We The Kingdom holds at # 3 this week with “Child Of Love”. Their first 2 hits (both last year) – “Holy Water” and “God So Loved” – spent a combined 8 weeks at # 1. I have a feeling that “Child Of Love” will complete the hat-trick for the Cash Family.

Here’s the official music video for “Child Of Love”:

This blog is now # 53 worldwide on the Top 90 Christian Music Blogs, Websites, & Influencers in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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.