Category: Music

My Top 10 Hits – Week 157

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 17, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday February 16TH 2020:

“The God Who Stays” – Matthew West [# 1 last week / 13TH week on chart]
“Rescue Story” – Zach Williams [2 / 19TH]
“Almost Home” – MercyMe [4 / 9TH]
“Waymaker” – Michael W. Smith Ft. Vanessa Campagna [3 / 4TH]
“Your Name Is Power” – Rend Collective [5 / 6TH]
“One Day” – Cochren & Co. [7 / 4TH]
“I Will Fear No More” – The Afters [8 / 4TH]
“See A Victory” – Elevation Worship [9 / 2ND]
“Like You Love Me” – Tauren Wells [6 / 5TH]
“I Know” – Big Daddy Weave [- / 1ST]

# 1 One Year Ago This Week:
“Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers

# 1 Two Years Ago This Week:
“Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard

# 1 Three Years Ago This Week:
“Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

Welcome to the start of Year 4 of this current K-LOVE era of my weekly hit music chart. I discovered the existence of K-LOVE in a hotel room in Bartow Florida on Presidents’ Day of 2017. I was returning southward down the peninsular spine of Florida after having been at the TobyMac concert in Tallahassee the night before. I was actually praying to God in my hotel room for a Christian pop station back home in South Florida after listening to WAY-FM and The JOY-FM in North and Central Florida. Well God delivered that miracle immediately.

I quickly discovered that there was already a Christian pop station in South Florida by the name of K-LOVE, and here’s the kicker – its 1,000-foot+ transmitter was broadcasting it at the U.S. maximum power of 100,000 watts just 5 miles away from my home ! The next morning once I got within about 100 miles of that transmitter and my home – I heard K-LOVE for the first time. And here we are 3 years later.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) here on #CountUp I’ll present a special cumulative Top 20 chart – my Top 20 hits of the past 3 years.

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2000s Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 14, 2020

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, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday February 13TH 2005:

“1, 2 Step” – Ciara Ft. Missy Elliott
“Beautiful Soul” – Jesse McCartney
“True” – Ryan Cabrera
“Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” – Green Day
“Since U Been Gone” – Kelly Clarkson

Green Day scored with 5 hits on my chart from 1996 to 2005 (when I compiled and published online a secular hit music chart each week under my former pseudonym “Major Hitwaves” / “The Major”).

“Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” was their 3RD hit, and while it’s only been 15 years since it played every 3 hours or less on the radio I couldn’t remember how it sounded. So I did what most people do. I went to YouTube, and I watched the music video. It all came back to me again. It sounded good – just as I remembered it – a rock-solid pop song. In fact it was a multi-format crossover smash that appealed to listeners of rock radio, Top 40 radio, and even Hot Adult Contemporary radio.

I’ll probably purchase and add this track to my iPod Shuffle playlist. It does bring back some not-so-good memories of a rather forgettable year – 2005 – but the past is what it is, and it got so much better and brighter just 18 months later. #Salvation

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

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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 156

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 10, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday February 09TH 2020:

“The God Who Stays” – Matthew West [# 2 last week / 12TH week on chart]
“Rescue Story” – Zach Williams [1 / 18TH]
“Waymaker” – Michael W. Smith Ft. Vanessa Campagna [4 / 3RD]
“Almost Home” – MercyMe [3 / 8TH]
“Your Name Is Power” – Rend Collective [5 / 5TH]
“Like You Love Me” – Tauren Wells [7 / 4TH]
“One Day” – Cochren & Co. [9 / 3RD]
“I Will Fear No More” – The Afters [8 / 3RD]
“See A Victory” – Elevation Worship [- / 1ST]
“Let The Redeemed” – Josh Baldwin [10 / 2ND]

# 1 One Year Ago This Week:
“Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers

# 1 Two Years Ago This Week:
“Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Matthew West scores his 2ND # 1 smash as a solo artist on my chart and 3RD including his part as a featured player with Casting Crowns in “Nobody (But Jesus)”. “The God Who Stays” is my 45TH # 1 smash. The one song from Matthew West that didn’t hit # 1 – hit # 2 (“All In”). I’m looking forward to seeing Casting Crowns and Matthew West LIVE in concert – at the same concert in April. Matthew opens for Casting Crowns, and then he obviously closes with them to perform “Nobody (But Jesus)”. I’ve never seen Matthew before in concert.

And with this week’s chart I conclude 3 years – 156 weeks – in this current era. Next weekend I’ll celebrate the 3RD anniversary of the resurrection of this chart and my 3RD anniversary as a listener and supporter of K-LOVE. The 4TH year begins with an all-new Top 10 chart on Monday as well as a special cumulative Top 20 chart on Tuesday – my Top 20 hits of the past 3 years !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again next weekend – with 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and YES – Tuesday. 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 @ChrisMDay, and I’m the man behind the tweets for my church @LivingWatersHFL.

Enjoy this new week my friends ! May the God of hope fill you completely with joy and peace as you trust in Him.

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2000s Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2010

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

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 10, 15, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 10 years ago. But for the week ending Sunday February 07TH 2010 there was no hit music chart. I had compiled and published my final Top 10 chart the week prior. The longest era of my personal hit music chart hobby had ended after 14 years and 3 months.

It’s no secret that God used His rock music and lyrics on the radio to suddenly rescue and save me during the 3RD week of August of 2006. I’ve told that story countless times here on this blog, on social media, and via vocal testimonies over the past 13 years. In fact God used a local independent radio station here in Miami-Dade County Florida to save me. I listened to that station – and only that station – through the start of 2010 (almost 3½ years).

Towards the end of my loyalty to that radio station it had made many changes to its format, sound, and style – changes that made it sound like a radio station that I really no longer recognized compared with the first 3 years. This was a radio station that I supported with my ears, with my word-of-mouth, and with my wallet. I prayed for this radio station daily and nightly. I loved this radio station so much that early on I decided that I wanted to work there – or even serve there gratis. I even visited the radio station (by personal invitation), went on-the-air, and told my story of salvation once or twice. Along the way they made some promises to me (and others) that they simply couldn’t keep (whether accidentally or intentionally). All I got out of those collective promises was a tee shirt, and I had to beg for that.

At the end I decided to part ways with this radio station and essentially end my music ministry. It wasn’t meant to be. 10 years ago this week I “flipped” (radio business term) from Christian Rock & Pop to Classic (Secular) Hits of the 1960s and 1970s via another local (commercial) radio station at the time.

Nevertheless my fantastic journey continued onward into the 2010s. There were peaks and valleys along the way – including some soaring highs and some deep craters. I even left my church family of 8 years and joined a new one a mile down the road. After a 7-year exile of Christian music on the radio K-LOVE entered my life on Presidents’ Day (the actual holiday) of 2017. Next weekend I celebrate 3 years as a loyal K-LOVE listener !

That first radio station ultimately let me down in many different ways, but God introduced Himself to me through that radio station. If it weren’t for that radio station I may not know God today. For that I am eternally grateful.

So this is my final look-back at 10 years ago. I haven’t yet decided how to go RETRO on future 1ST Fridays of the month, but I’ll come up with something interesting by April.

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 !

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