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My Top 10 Hits – Week 448

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 14TH 2025 – the 448TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 14 Breakdown
[3RD week @ # 1]		 Andrew Ripp
2 2 13 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham
3 3 6 Preach Ryan Stevenson Ft. Matt Hammitt
4 7 2 I’ve Just Seen Too Much Big Daddy Weave
5 4 17 God Did It Micah Tyler
6 5 19 The King Is In The Room Phil Wickham
7 6 24 Jesus Loves Zach Williams
8 10 2 Still Crowder
9 9 7 Can’t Steal My Joy Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
10 – 5 Let The Church Sing Tauren Wells

# 1 This Week In:
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

CROWDER – His 11TH hit since 2017 – “Still” – climbs 2 notches this week to # 8. It’s a song that seems to be growing on me with each new listen. It’s approaching the Top 10 nationally. Crowder sings that “He’s working on me – still. Changing me piece by piece – still. Making me better. Gonna do His thing.”

ONE-HIT WONDER – She’s Tiffany Arbuckle Lee, but we know her as Plumb. She spent 14 weeks on my chart from September to December 2017 with “God Help Me”. It was the title track of her EP at the time. Sadly that’s the first and only time she appeared on my chart.

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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Our Nation’s Capitol

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It’s Part 5 of my 7-part blog series on my recent trip to and from Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. It was my first trip back to the area in exactly a decade (to the date). And yes – you read that right – I can confirm that this will indeed extend to a Part 7 that will wrap-up 2 weeks from today.

#ButFirst – On that last Saturday morning of July me and my family headed to the nearby Metro station at West Falls Church (within eyesight of our hotel, but not accessible via sidewalk yet due to heavy construction in the area). I was the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) expert of my family, as I’d studied it in the weeks leading up to this trip. There really wasn’t much to study. The Metro is so easy to use – even easier to use than it was 10 years earlier with modern technology added. We took the Orange Line into D.C. to Metro Center (where 4 out of 6 lines come together), and then we transferred over to the Red Line and got off two stations later at Judiciary Square. Why such an awkward location to exit the Metro ?

That’s where our guided tour launched from. It’s also the location of the National Law Enforcement Museum and National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. (Location – Between E & F Streets and 4TH & 5TH Streets in NW Washington)

About 20 of us met our 3 tour guides and their open-air all-electric cars, and we piled in to them – 7 per car. We went on a fun 2+ hour slow narrated tour past many of the popular buildings, memorials, and monuments, and we made a few stops along the way. You can book the “Washington Mall & Monuments By Electric Car Tour” via Intrepid Urban Adventures at their web site. I recommend this tour as a good way to see the area without too much walking. Tripadvisor has over 1,000 reviews for this trip, and it rates at a 4.9 out of 5.0. (That’s how my brother and sister-in-law found out about this trip.)

After the tour we walked a couple of blocks down F Street over to the Capital One Arena – home of the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards. My brother was extremely disappointed that their Team Store was closed on a Saturday. (He probably saved himself a couple hundred dollars as a result.)

We walked down 7TH Street from the Arena, and we checked out Gordon Ramsay Street Pizza. We were welcomed and told that Gordon Ramsay Street Burger was brand new and had just opened the day before, so we chose that. (It’s located underneath Street Pizza.) Lunch was pretty good there. I enjoyed my backyard smash burger and fries.

After lunch we took the Metro again to the Smithsonian station, and then we walked over to the National Museum Of American History. We were originally planning to visit the National Museum Of Natural History, but we all agreed that the girls (my teenage nieces) and my brother would find American History more interesting (with modern pop culture) than Natural History. I finally got to see (and take a picture of) Archie Bunker’s chair from “All In The Family”. I was also looking for Fonzie’s leather jacket from “Happy Days”, but I couldn’t find it. (As it turns out – it’s currently not on public view.)

Outside there was a marching band performing, and then later a hip hop concert at The Mall near the Smithsonian station. Artists need a permit to perform on The Mall (especially with amplified sound), but there’s generally no cost to do so.

From the Smithsonian station we took the Orange Line 12 stops – back to West Falls Church. Fun Fact – I maintained a strong T-Mobile 5G cell phone signal all throughout the underground portion of the Metro – including 100+ feet underneath the Potomac River !

Me and my brother ended our day together at Ledo Pizza for dinner about a mile away from our hotel. (As I was writing this blog post I discovered that it’s a chain here on the U.S. East Coast with 116 locations including a couple within a couple of hours of my home in Sebring Florida.)

It’s our final day in Northern Virginia, and we’ll eat and shop until we drop – next #TravelThursday. Let’s keep traveling together.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 447

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 07TH 2025 – the 447TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 13 Breakdown
[2ND week @ # 1]		 Andrew Ripp
2 2 12 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham
3 4 5 Preach Ryan Stevenson Ft. Matt Hammitt
4 3 16 God Did It Micah Tyler
5 6 18 The King Is In The Room Phil Wickham
6 5 23 Jesus Loves Zach Williams
7 – 1 I’ve Just Seen Too Much Big Daddy Weave
8 10 4 Come Jesus Come CeCe Winans
9 9 6 Can’t Steal My Joy Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
10 – 1 Still Crowder

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Take You At Your Word” – Cody Carnes
2023 – “Praise You Anywhere” – Brandon Lake
2022 – “Hold You Tight” – Dan Bremnes
2021 – “Into The Wild” – Josh Baldwin
2020 – “Miracles” – Colton Dixon
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

BIG DADDY WEAVE – They are back with their 8TH hit since 2017 – “I’ve Just Seen Too Much”. It’s from their 15-track album “Let It Begin”, and it’s their 4TH single from the album – following “God Is In This Story”, “Heaven Changes Everything”, and the title track – “Let It Begin”. It’s good to have Mike Weaver and the guys from Mobile Alabama back on the radio with a new track.

THIS IS MY STORY – Yesterday I got to share a short version of my salvation story with my church family of the past 2 years as an intro to my Communion. (I lead our monthly Communion every first Sunday.) I shared how God used loud rock music to rescue and save me 19 years and 2½ weeks ago. If you were following my chart back then – you witnessed it gradually flipping from a secular to a Christian Top 25 pop music chart. You likely saw songs and artists that you never heard of before. That’s how my fantastic journey in Christ started for me.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Kim Walker-Smith hit # 8 back in August 2017 with “Throne Room”. It’s based on Hebrews 4:16 – So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

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) 2025 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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My Top 10 Hits – Summer Of 2025

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. Today it’s a special chart of my Top 10 hits of this past Summer. Here’s this Summer’s chart:

RK PK WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 15 God Did It Micah Tyler
2 1 15 The King Is In The Room Phil Wickham
3 1 15 Oh Death MercyMe
4 2 15 Jesus Loves Zach Williams
5 1 11 What An Awesome God Phil Wickham
6 1 12 Breakdown Andrew Ripp
7 4 15 No Fear Jon Reddick
8 1 7 You Never Gave Up On Me The Afters
9 1 7 Unashamed Matthew West
10 3 4 Money Can’t Buy Cochren & Co.

# 1 Summer Of:
2024 – “Somebody Like Me” – Caleb & John Ft. Cain
2023 – “Big God” – Terrian
2022 – “Love Is Everything We Need” – Unspoken
2021 – “Yes He Can” – Cain
2020 – “No Impossible With You” – I AM THEY
2019 – “Raise A Hallelujah” – Bethel Music
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Wonder” – Hillsong UNITED

WHAT A SUMMER ! – 15 weekly hit music charts and 19 positive and encouraging hits (2 less than last Summer) have created this cumulative hit music chart of my Top 10 hits of the Summer Of 2025 based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. This past Summer season is defined as U.S. Memorial Day Weekend (last Sunday of May) to U.S. Labor Day Weekend (first Sunday of September). This chart is an End-Of-Summer tradition for me.

CHART-TOPPERS – There were 7 # 1 hits on my chart this summer – compared with 4 in 2024. No song spent more than 3 weeks at # 1. Phil Wickham spent 5 weeks at the top, or exactly one-third of the summer.

MALE SOLO AT THE TOP – For the first time in this current era of the past 9 summers – a male solo artist has my # 1 smash of an entire summer. Micah Tyler does it with “God Did It”. It was 1 of 5 songs to spend all 15 weeks of summer on my chart, and 11 of those 15 weeks were in my Top 3.

PHIL WICKHAM – This was the “Summer Of Phil Wickham”. In a rare situation he had two big hits on the radio simultaneously. “The King Is In The Room” (released in February) was already gaining airplay and climbing the charts (mine and nationally) when “What An Awesome God” was revealed by radio deejays to their listeners. What was intended to be a big radio single later this year became an unexpected # 1 smash this summer. And while the latter perhaps hurt the chart performance of the former (at least nationally) – both songs deserved and received generous airplay this summer. It’ll be a tough act to follow, but Phil’s got a new album dropping on Friday September 12TH. It’s called “Song Of The Saints”, and it’s got 16 tracks on it. I have a feeling that a few of them will be big on the radio into 2026.

2025 – Get ready for the final 17 weeks of 2025, and after it’s all over – I’ll #CountUp my Top 25 Of 2025.

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