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My Top 10 Hits – Week 459

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 1, 2025
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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 November 30TH 2025 – the 459TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	18	Can’t Steal My Joy [9TH week @ # 1]	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2	2	7	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
3	3	8	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
4	4	5	Lift Me Up	Blessing Offor
5	5	24	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
6	6	25	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
7	7	4	World On Fire	for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
8	8	13	Still	Crowder
9	–	1	I Need You	Jet Trouble
10	10	7	God Story	Anne Wilson

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Do It Again” – Steven Curtis Chapman
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Ain’t Nobody” – Cody Carnes
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “Jericho” – Andrew Ripp
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Mica h Tyler
2017 – “Control (Somehow You Want Me)” – Tenth Avenue North

JET TROUBLE – He’s James E. Troublefield IV, but he’s known professionally as Jet Trouble. He’s got his debut hit on my chart as “I Need You” finally enters my chart. It was actually released in July 2023, and after languishing for a couple of years – it’s now starting to make an impact at U.S. Christian Radio – particularly K-LOVE. He explains – “The song was born out of a cry to God after my dad was diagnosed with ALS and quickly went downhill in his battle with the disease before passing. I was easily going through the worst season of my life. I felt angry and confused and a lot of times my prayer time consisted of nothing more than, ‘God – I need you'”.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Vertical Worship had a big hit from August to November of 2019 with “Yes I Will”. It peaked at # 3 and spent 12 weeks on my chart. We sang it many times during Praise + Worship at my home church at the time. Vertical Worship are the Praise + Worship band at Harvest Bible Chapel in the Chicago area.

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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My Top 10 Hits – Week 458

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 24, 2025
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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 November 23RD 2025 – the 458TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	17	Can’t Steal My Joy [8TH week @ # 1]	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2	3	6	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
3	2	7	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
4	6	4	Lift Me Up	Blessing Offor
5	4	23	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
6	5	24	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
7	9	3	World On Fire	for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
8	7	12	Still	Crowder
9	8	5	Won’t Start Now	Seph Schlueter
10	10	6	God Story	Anne Wilson

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Place In This World” – for King + Country Ft. Michael W. Smith
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Ain’t Nobody” – Cody Carnes
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Mic a h Tyler
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

CHRIS TOMLIN – His 11TH hit on my chart is on the verge of becoming his 4TH # 1 smash, as the anthemic “How Good It Is” rises another notch to # 2. It’s the first single off his 18TH studio album – “The King Is Still The King”. It’s a ready-made Praise + Worship song for church bands with lyrics taken straight from Psalms 92, 98, 100, and 113.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Bethel Music are based out of Redding California with Brian Johnson as its Cofounder and Jenn Johnson as its President. Both have appeared on my chart before. And they appeared together on “God Of Revival” – a # 2 hit in May 2021. But the Bethel Music collective of artists appeared just once on my chart – and it was for a # 1 smash during the Summer Of 2019. In fact – “Raise A Hallelujah” was my # 1 song of the entire summer.

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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My Top 10 Hits – Week 457

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 17, 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. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday November 16TH 2025 – the 457TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	16	Can’t Steal My Joy [7TH week @ # 1]	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2	2	6	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
3	6	5	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
4	4	22	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
5	5	23	Breakdown	Andrew Ripp
6	7	3	Lift Me Up	Blessing Offor
7	3	11	Still	Crowder
8	8	4	Won’t Start Now	Seph Schlueter
9	10	2	World On Fire	for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
10	9	5	God Story	Anne Wilson

# 1 This Week In:
2024 – “Place In This World” – for King + Country Ft. Michael W. Smith
2023 – “I Thank God” – Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2022 – “Ain’t Nobody” – Cody Carnes
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “No Hold On Me” – Matty Mullins
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

JOSIAH X BRANDON – Josiah Queen and Brandon Lake remain at the pinnacle of my chart for a 7TH week in a row. It’s now my longest-running # 1 smash since last December and January when Steven Curtis Chapman spent 7 weeks at # 1 with “Do It Again”. If it can hold on at the top for another 2 weeks then it’ll tie the 9 weeks at # 1 that Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship spent with “I Thank God”.

ONE-HIT WONDER – You may not remember the band Switch – but you probably remember their big hit “Symphony”. It was all over U.S. Christian Radio during the Summer Of 2019, and it still receives recurrent airplay 6 years later. It spent 15 weeks on my chart – peaking at # 2. The band that sang “Symphony” came out of the high school ministry of the multi-campus LIFE.CHURCH.

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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The Other Side Of The Ocean

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 13, 2025

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It was exactly 40 years ago this past weekend – on the 10TH of November of 1985 – that I arrived in a foreign country solo for the first time in my life – as a young 18-year-old. I was 5 months into my USAF career – having spent 6½ weeks at Basic Training at Lackland AFB near San Antonio Texas and 3 months at Tech School at Chanute AFB near Rantoul Illinois.

It was a cold Sunday morning at London’s Heathrow Airport, and I had flown all night from Washington Dulles Airport. Of course I lost 5 hours overnight with the time difference.

I made my way to the British Rail station at the airport. I took that to Reading – where I got off the train. Oops. I wasn’t supposed to get off there. I got confused. I ended-up waiting at that station until the next train arrived. That didn’t take very long. I got on it, and I continued on to Swindon. At the Swindon station I hired a cab to take me to my new home and workplace – RAF Fairford – about 13 miles / 20 kilometers away.

The cab driver was nice and friendly. He welcomed me to the U.K., and he turned up the radio for us to listen to. I think we were listening to GWR. An eerie song came on that I had never heard before. It was Talking Heads with “Road To Nowhere”. How appropriate for that song to play on the radio as I was being driven on the left along narrow and winding country roads from Swindon in Wiltshire to RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds of Gloucestershire.

That was the start of my 2-year and 1-week adventure in the south of England as an 18, 19, and 20-year-old. I got to see a lot of England, Scotland, Wales, France, Belgium, and Netherlands. I wish I had seen more of the European continent, but I’m grateful for the areas that I did get to experience while I was over there.

I’ve attended over 150 concerts and live events in my life (115 since 2000), and the first 17 all occurred during those 2 years in England.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll write about my driving – or lack of it – over the past year. Let’s keep traveling together.