Category: Music

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 12, 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 February 11TH 1996:

“When I Come Around” – Green Day
“You Oughta Know” – Alanis Morissette
“Hand In My Pocket” – Alanis Morissette
“Close To You” – Fun Factory
“Be My Lover” – La Bouche

Punk Pop and Eurodance topped my hit music chart exactly 25 years ago. After struggling a bit during the Grunge era of the early-1990s Top 40 Radio was on fire during the mid-1990s here in the U.S., and I was part of that fun scene. I loved the Eurodance feel, and I could listen to it all day. That Fun Factory song – “Close To You” – was one of the best of them all – and also one of the fastest as far as BPM (beats-per-minute) was concerned. It clocked-in at over 120 BPM – perhaps even closer to 130 BPM. I danced to it a few times in the clubs. I got quite the workout !

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to February 1991. I was serving in Operation Desert Storm at the time in Saudi Arabia, but I managed to produce a hit music chart over there on the pink desert sands.

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 208

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 8, 2021

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES

WEEK ENDING SUNDAY FEBRUARY 07TH 2021

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	3	13	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
3	2	18	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
4	5	7	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United
5	4	11	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
6	6	4	Say I Won’t	MercyMe
7	7	3	Less Like Me	Zach Williams
8	8	3	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
9	9	2	Next To Me	Jordan Feliz
10	–	1	Battle Belongs	Phil Wickham

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “The God Who Stays” – Matthew West
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard

It looks like Matthew West has been denied the top spot for just the 2ND time in his past 5 hits. His “Truth Be Told” slips a notch this week to # 3 after 5 weeks in a row at # 2. His “All In” was denied the top spot back in June 2018 by Elevation Worship’s “Do It Again” – which turned out to be the # 1 smash of the entire year of 2018. This year it’s Cade Thompson’s “Every Step Of The Way” – which spends its 10TH week in a row as my # 1 smash. It looks like it could be my # 1 smash of the entire year of 2021 !

Here’s the brand new official music video for “Every Step Of The Way”. You can view it below or via this YouTube link.

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 – 2006

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

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday February 05TH 2006:

“Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” – Fall Out Boy
“Dirty Little Secret” – The All-American Rejects
“Photograph” – Nickelback
“Everytime We Touch” – Cascada
“Someone” – D.H.T.

What a fantastic chart that was exactly 15 years ago this week. Rock & Dance !

Germany’s Cascada and Belgium’s D.H.T. were late Eurodance acts that made an impact around the world – including here in the U.S.A.

Cascada’s debut (and only) smash on my chart spent 33 weeks in my Top 20 including 24 weeks in my Top 10 and 2 weeks at # 1. It was actually my # 1 smash overall for the entire year of 2006. It’s currently in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles at my workplace. I hear it almost every day. It still sounds great today like it did back then.

D.H.T. managed 2 hits on my chart – “Listen To Your Heart” in 2005 and “Someone”. “Listen To Your Heart” is also in heavy rotation at work.

Both “Everytime We Touch” and “Listen To Your Heart” crossed-over from the dance clubs of the city to the airwaves of mainstream Top 40 radio where they were both Top 10 hits. Longtime fans of this blog know that I was a part-time “clubber” from the late-1980s through the mid-2000s. I still like the music today, but I can barely move to it like I used to in my 20s and 30s.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to February 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 207

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

COUNTUP MINISTRIES

WEEK ENDING SUNDAY JANUARY 31ST 2021

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	10	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	2	17	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
3	3	12	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
4	4	10	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
5	5	6	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United
6	6	3	Say I Won’t	MercyMe
7	9	2	Less Like Me	Zach Williams
8	10	2	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
9	–	1	Next To Me	Jordan Feliz
10	7	23	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Rescue Story” – Zach Williams
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard

January ended the way it began. And it began the way December ended. And December ended the way it began.

YEP – Cade Thompson is still at # 1 – for the 9TH week in a row – with one of my favorite songs in a long time. It’s a simple and catchy radio-friendly pop song, but it’s got powerful lyrics sung by a powerful voice that praises and worships God. He’s the God that’s working everything for the best of us. He’s the God that’s fighting and writing His love in our story – “Every Step Of The Way”.

Debut artist Jordan St. Cyr climbs up a couple of notches with his track “Fires”. It’s a song all about those fires along this journey. It’s not a perfect straight line believing and following and trusting Christ. It’s a long and winding road with sharp curves and deep pits of despair along the way. If we should so happen to drift off the journey our God will reach for us to pull us out of the mud and the mire. He’ll walk us through fires. He’ll pull us from flames. We must not be afraid.

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.