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The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 49

  1. “Lions” – Skillet [# 1 last week / 16TH week on chart]
  2. “Miracle” – Unspoken [4 / 5TH]
  3. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [5 / 6TH]
  4. “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North [3 / 9TH]
  5. “Bleed The Same” – Mandisa Ft. TobyMac [6 / 7TH]
  6. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [9 / 2ND]
  7. “Masterpiece” – Danny Gokey [10 / 2ND]
  8. “Rescuer (Good News)” – Rend Collective [2 / 14TH]
  9. “Only King Forever” – 7eventh Time Down [7 / 14TH]
  10. “Different” – Micah Tyler [8 / 24TH]

A couple of Sunday nights ago I got to see Skillet LIVE in concert for the 3RD time in 8 years. They were the headliner of 2018 Winter Jam here in South Florida. I got to sing my current personal # 1 smash “Lions” out loud and proud in unison with some 19,000 of my brothers and sisters that formed a church family on that glorious night.

This will likely be the 4TH and final week at # 1 for “Lions”, as both “Miracle” and “Gracefully Broken” are vying for the top spot next week. Whenever the latter plays on K-LOVE I can’t get the song out of my mind, and I end up humming and singing it over and over again for hours afterwards.

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The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2008

  1. Fighting For Your Heart (Let It Go) – After Edmund
  2. Ra-Random – Transistor Radio
  3. When Hope Is All You Have – Spoken
  4. Never Going Back To OK – The Afters
  5. Medicine – The Fold

These were my Top 5 hits exactly 10 years ago this weekend – Sunday January 20TH 2008.

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The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 48

  1. “Lions” – Skillet [# 1 last week / 15TH week on chart]
  2. “Rescuer (Good News)” – Rend Collective [2 / 13TH]
  3. “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North [3 / 8TH]
  4. “Miracle” – Unspoken [7 / 4TH]
  5. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [8 / 5TH]
  6. “Bleed The Same” – Mandisa Ft. TobyMac [9 / 6TH]
  7. “Only King Forever” – 7eventh Time Down [5 / 13TH]
  8. “Different” – Micah Tyler [6 / 23RD]
  9. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [- / 1ST]
  10. “Masterpiece” – Danny Gokey [- / 1ST]

 

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The 800TH Hit

‘Saturday Night Retro’ used to be a regular series on this blog. Now it’s the name of the blog. It was inspired by a popular series on my former hit music-based web site (‘MASSIVESMASH.COM’) known as ‘The Major’s MASSIVE Memories’.

Yesterday I added the 800TH hit to my iTunes collection. This past week I quietly celebrated my 5TH anniversary with iTunes. (The date actually came and went without me even realizing it until just now.) So that’s 800 hits in 5 years – or an average of 160 hits per year – less than one every two days. I’m very meticulous as to which hits get added to my iTunes collection. Each one is added for a reason. Mainly that reason is that it’s one of the greatest hits ever made according to me. My iTunes collection is essentially ‘The Music Of My Life’. It spans six decades from the 1960s to the 2010s. 617 of the 800 hits (over 77%) are from the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. My admiration of classic hit music – particularly classic rock – from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s is fairly new, and it’s slowly building within my collection.

521 of the 800 hits were purchased directly from the iTunes Store at $0.99 or $1.29 a pop. The remainder were imported from my CDs of the 1990s and 2000s. If only there was a way to somehow import all of the great music that I still have on cassette singles of the 1980s !

Listening to all 800 hits one right after another would take approximately 3,200 minutes (based on an average length of four minutes per hit). That’s over 53 hours of non-stop hits with no repeats. Of course that’s impractical. I’ve actually got a special smart playlist known as my ‘HOT 275’. It’s the best of the best – the cream of the crop – the best 275 hits of them all – and it’s on one of my four iPod Shuffles – the one that goes to work with me. It’s my workplace jukebox. It’s my own personal hit music station that I control. Hit after hit. No radio station can match my ‘HOT 275’.