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My Top 10 Hits – Week 186

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 7, 2020

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 – for the week ending Sunday September 06TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	6	Miracles	Colton Dixon
2	3	4	God So Loved	We The Kingdom
3	4	3	The Blessing	Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Elevation Worship
4	2	17	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
5	–	1	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
6	8	2	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
7	–	1	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
8	9	3	Who Am I	NeedToBreathe
9	10	3	Peace Be Still	Hope Darst
10	–	1	Into The Sea (It’s Gonna Be OK)	Tasha Layton

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

Colton Dixon remains at # 1 for a 3RD week with my favorite song on the radio. It’s likely his final week at # 1, as both We The Kingdom and the Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, and Elevation Worship collaboration are making the Top 3 full with glorious new music and lyrics for Christ our Savior.

Debuting high at # 5 is the latest track from one of my favorite bands – Big Daddy Weave. Their 4TH hit since 2017 sounds awesome, and I love to sing along to it whenever I hear it. It’s truly got that trademark Big Daddy Weave sound and melody to it where if you hear it for the first time – you may guess that it’s a Big Daddy Weave song before the deejay tells you so.

I always love debut artists on the radio and on my chart. I love to hear new music from artists who I’ve never heard of before. This week I’m blessed to love new music from Matty Mullins and Tasha Layton. Matty’s been around for about a dozen years as part of the Mainstream and Christian hard rock scene with his band Memphis May Fire. Tasha has sung background vocals for Katy Perry. She was a contestant during the 2010 season of American Idol.

Well normally this is the end of another weekend of blogging, but I’m not done yet. I’ll have a special Tuesday blog post tomorrow. It’s my annual end-of-summer chart. I’ll #CountUp my Top 10 hits of the Summer of 2020 (from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend).

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1985

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 4, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month 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, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so it’s a special. Back in 1985 I was an 18-year-old USAF Airman Basic living in a dorm at Chanute AFB near Rantoul Illinois. In September I was in my 2ND month of technical school – learning how to do my future job. We were approaching the halfway point of our 12-week class. For the first 6 weeks class started early in the morning, and it continued until the middle of the afternoon. For the remaining 6 weeks we went to a “swing shift” schedule – starting in the middle of the afternoon, and continuing until late at night. That got us accustomed to the various schedules that we could face while working our job at our first permanent duty station.

I’m still having fun over on Facebook at the Chanute AFB Veterans page – enjoying the classic photos and reminiscing about my short time there on that base surrounded by cornfields. I wish I had photos to share, but sadly I didn’t own a camera or take pictures back then. I had a lot of fun though with my classmates and dormmates !

These were the hottest hits in the land exactly 35 years ago this weekend – for the week ending Sunday September 08TH 1985:

“St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)” – John Paar
“The Power Of Love” – Huey Lewis And The News
“We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” – Tina Turner
“Freeway Of Love” – Aretha Franklin
“Summer Of ’69” – Bryan Adams

Good solid pop / light-rock music set back then. That’s what played on my static-filled AM radio in my 1980 Chevy Citation (my first car). #MusicRadioWLSChicago

Next week on RETRO it’s back to my regularly-scheduled program. I’ll go back 15 years to the 2ND week of September of 2005.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with 3 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 185

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 31, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	5	Miracles	Colton Dixon
2	3	16	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
3	7	3	God So Loved	We The Kingdom
4	8	2	The Blessing	Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Elevation Worship
5	2	11	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
6	4	25	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
7	5	20	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
8	–	1	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
9	9	2	Who Am I	NeedToBreathe
10	10	2	Peace Be Still	Hope Darst

Colton Dixon remains at # 1 for a 2ND week with my favorite song on the radio. In addition to the lyrics of “Miracles” I love its feel. I love its beat. It almost gets funky at one point during the song where I wish I had bongo drums to play along to the beat.

I AM THEY ease back up a notch to # 2 after slipping to # 3 last week with their former # 1 smash “No Impossible With You”. You know each summer there’s a sleeper smash that I never saw coming. It’s the song that will likely remind me (personally) of this summer season years from now. I think this is it. It’ll be interesting to see where this song lands on my special chart next Tuesday September 08TH when I #CountUp my Top 10 hits of the Summer of 2020 (from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend).

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and a special Tuesday edition. 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 – 1990

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 28, 2020

It’s the 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday August 26TH 1990:

“(I Can’t Live Without Your) Love And Affection” – Nelson
“Unskinny Bop” – Poison
“Can’t Stop Falling Into Love” – Cheap Trick
“Epic” – Faith No More
“My Kinda Girl” – Babyface

What an amazing Top 5 chart. I consider all 5 of those songs to be 5 of the greatest songs of my 53-year lifetime. They (among others) made-up the soundtrack of the greatest summer that ever existed for me prior to salvation in 2006.

My chart flipped that summer from Top 40 to Rock 40. You may remember Rock 40 as a late-’80s / early-’90s hybrid format of mainstream pop music and hard rock music – with a heavy concentration of the rock hits that crossed-over onto the pop chart. It was an awesome sound. Of course even during my Rock 40 chart era there were R & B, Hip Hop, and Dance hits sprinkled-in. That Babyface song was poppin’ back then !

I was a young and wild 23-year-old USAF SGT (E-4) back then living and working here in Homestead Florida – where I remain today. If this 53-year-old could go back in time and talk to that 23-year-old – first-of-all the conversation would be crazy. We would have a long talk. I would ultimately tell 23-year-old me to enjoy that great season while it lasts, for it will eventually end, and no other season will ever come close to it. As great as that season was – you will mourn parts of it. 16 summers from now you will have a supernatural experience that will change your life forever – and save it from certain death.

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 !