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My Top 10 Hits – Week 217

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 12, 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 APRIL 11TH 2021	WEEK 217

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	8	Good God Almighty [1ST week @ # 1]	Crowder
2	3	3	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
3	4	12	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
4	1	13	Say I Won’t	MercyMe
5	5	20	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
6	6	5	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
7	7	4	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
8	–	1	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
9	–	1	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
10	–	1	No Hopeless Soul	Stephen Stanley

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Confidence” – Sanctus Real
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “I Have This Hope” – Tenth Avenue North

David Crowder and his band score my new # 1 smash this week with their simple yet catchy track “Good God Almighty”. It’s Crowder’s 3RD # 1 smash on my chart following “Forgiven” in May 2017 and “Red Letters” in March 2019. A couple of years ago I saw Crowder LIVE in concert for the first time. He and his band opened for my favorite band MercyMe in Tampa. Crowder put on a rockin’ set that had his longtime fans enjoying the experience – and newer fans like myself singing along and moving to the music.

3 new entries this week are led by newcomers Brian & Jenn Johnson of Bethel Music. Their “God Of Revival” is emerging at U.S. Christian Radio where it’s currently BUBBLING UNDER just outside the Top 30. Here’s an extended version of the song featuring Phil Wickham who cowrote it with Brian Johnson. It was recorded LIVE at a church conference in 2019:

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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music, Radio

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 9, 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 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday April 14TH 1996:

“One Of Us” – Joan Osborne
“I Want To Come Over” – Melissa Etheridge
“Insensitive” – Jann Arden
“Rock And Roll All Nite” – KISS
“The World I Know” – Collective Soul

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KISS is arguably one of the greatest rock and roll bands in the history of the rock era, and “Rock And Roll All Nite” is arguably their greatest song ever. Some consider it to be one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever made. It was originally a minor hit on the radio in 1975 before it exploded in popularity early in 1976. It kicked-off a string of hits for KISS from 1976 to 1979. They were an alternate to the disco era of the time; although, they too would succumb to the discotheque sound with their often-maligned disco smash “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”.

But back to “Rock And Roll All Nite” – it was actually reissued as a single (both at retail and to radio) 20 years later early in 1996, and it became a Rock 40 smash all over again. You may remember the Rock 40 radio format. It was very popular during the early-to-mid-1990s away from both coasts – particularly in smaller radio markets – and it blended pop music (deemphasizing hip hop and rap) with hard rock music.

“Rock And Roll All Nite” has been in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace for many years. It’s garnered 1,007 plays over the past 9 years.

I’ve been to a lot of music concerts over the past 35 years, but KISS was regrettably not one of them. Some will say that you haven’t truly lived the concert experience unless you’ve been to a KISS concert. (I wouldn’t know.)

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to April 1991.

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 1996, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 216

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 5, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY APRIL 04TH 2021	WEEK 216

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	Say I Won’t [6TH week @ # 1]	MercyMe
2	2	7	Good God Almighty	Crowder
3	5	2	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
4	3	11	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
5	4	19	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
6	6	4	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
7	7	3	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
8	8	11	Less Like Me	Zach Williams
9	9	5	Amen	for King & Country
10	10	26	Truth Be Told	Matthew West

There’s no change at the top of my chart, as MercyMe hold on for a 6TH consecutive week at # 1 with their 2ND single from their upcoming album. “inhale (exhale)” drops online on Friday April 30TH 2021, and it’s a 16-track album that starts with “inhale” and ends with “exhale”. “Say I Won’t” is the 14TH track on it, and the one right after it – “Almost Home”. The 2 tracks have spent a combined 18 weeks (and counting) at # 1. (“Almost Home” was # 1 last Resurrection Sunday 2020.)

BUBBLING UNDER just outside my Top 10 is debut artist Leanna Crawford with her song “Mean Girls”. She’s from the Seattle Washington area. She’s been writing and performing music for God for about 9 years now, and “Mean Girls” appears poised to be her breakthrough smash onto Christian radio. Personally – the first few times I heard “Mean Girls” on the radio I thought it to be a strange song for K-LOVE to play. Why are they playing a teen pop ballad ? Am I still listening to K-LOVE ? After a dozen or so “spins” of hearing it – now I’m singing along to it. I’m starting to learn its lyrics too. I especially like this part of the song:

♫ I smile and I pretend it doesn’t hurt
But the older that I get it just gets worse
Lord – find me and remind me that my worth
Is worth so much more than their words ♫

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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music, Radio

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No Foolin’

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 1, 2021

Greetings my friends worldwide. Welcome to the start of a fresh new weekend of blogging here at #CountUp. Weekends always start early on Thursday mornings here on this blog, and they end early on Monday mornings with 4 new blog posts in-between. New posts are published at 3 AM U.S. East Coast time on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays.

This blog continues to expand globally from the Atlantic shores of North America, across the sea into Europe, Africa, Asia, and down under into Australia and New Zealand. I am thankful for all of you who follow this blog and check it out each weekend. Some of you come for the travel adventures on Thursdays. Some appreciate the music of yesteryear on Fridays. Many come to receive God’s Word and get closer to Him with each new Sunday Scripture. On Mondays many of you love to discover those new songs on the radio that praise and worship Christ.

I’ll continue to produce new blog posts for you 4 times per week / 200 times per year.

It is Thursday April Fools Day 2021, and there’s no foolin’ here. Can you believe that we are now in the 4TH month of 2021 ? This year is flying by (unlike last year) when we were all homebound with no place to go and an uncertain future. It’s good that many of us are getting back to a more normal life now. I’m fortunate to be a Floridian. We’ve pretty much been open for business and back to normal since last summer.

Well it wouldn’t be Thursday here on this blog without some travel news. I’ve got my Treasure Coast Of Florida road-trip (announced last Thursday) all planned-out for the near future. I’ll also be visiting North Texas twice later this year – via air and via car. That’s a 3,000-mile road-trip via car. I’ll also visit the Gulf Coast of Southwest Florida later this year during a much shorter road-trip. In 2020 I only drove 6,395 miles. This could be an 11,000-mile year for me. It’s good to get out there on the open road and see and discover Florida and beyond !