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My Top 10 Hits – Week 354

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday November 26TH 2023 – the 354TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 6 I Thank God
[4TH week @ # 1]
Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2 2 15 Hallelujah Feeling Caleb & John
3 3 19 Praise You Anywhere Brandon Lake
4 4 16 Praise The Lord Micah Tyler
5 5 13 Parking Lot Cochren & Co.
6 6 5 Any More Cain
7 7 3 I Believe Phil Wickham
8 8 21 To Not Worship You MercyMe
9 9 8 Firm Foundation (He Won’t) Cody Carnes
10 10 5 Faithfully TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
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” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

NO CHANGE (REPEAT) – For the 2ND week in a row all of the songs hold steady at their respective chart positions. I listened to none of these songs – and very little Christian music overall – while I was away on vacation in North Texas. I mostly listened to secular music from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, ’00s, ’10s, and ’20s – and a whole lot of Taylor Swift (courtesy of my nieces – ages 13½ and 10½). And then of course since Thanksgiving Day many Christian stations (particularly K-LOVE) have been stunting with Christmas music. The hits return today, so next Monday I hope to present a Top 10 chart with much more activity – and hopefully a few new entries.

SPOTIFY – I learned a lot about this music streaming service from my brother last week, and now I have gift cards for it. I plan to create a public playlist for my Top 10 each week. I just need to figure out how it all works. (The first thing that I need to do is to create an account on the service. I’ll do that soon. I hear that Premium Individual is the way to go.)

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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 X and Flickr.

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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 353

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday November 19TH 2023 – the 353RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 5 I Thank God
[3RD week @ # 1]
Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2 2 14 Hallelujah Feeling Caleb & John
3 3 18 Praise You Anywhere Brandon Lake
4 4 15 Praise The Lord Micah Tyler
5 5 12 Parking Lot Cochren & Co.
6 6 4 Any More Cain
7 7 2 I Believe Phil Wickham
8 8 20 To Not Worship You MercyMe
9 9 7 Firm Foundation (He Won’t) Cody Carnes
10 10 4 Faithfully TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
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

NO CHANGE – It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving here in the U.S., and that generally means frozen playlists on the radio and little to no movement on the music charts. This chart is no exception, as every song remains at their respective chart position from last week. By next weekend – Christmas music will be introduced to radio playlists – starting with Christian and Adult Contemporary. Some stations will flip entirely to Christmas tracks – like The-JOY-FM in Central Florida.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – with a special #ThanksgivingDay post on Thursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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 X and Flickr.

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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 352

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 over 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday November 12TH 2023 – the 352ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW LW WKS SONG TITLE ARTIST / SITE
1 1 4 I Thank God
[2ND week @ # 1]
Housefires Ft. JWLKRS Worship
2 2 13 Hallelujah Feeling Caleb & John
3 3 17 Praise You Anywhere Brandon Lake
4 4 14 Praise The Lord Micah Tyler
5 7 11 Parking Lot Cochren & Co.
6 8 3 Any More Cain
7 1 I Believe Phil Wickham
8 6 19 To Not Worship You MercyMe
9 9 6 Firm Foundation (He Won’t) Cody Carnes
10 10 3 Faithfully TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
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

PHIL WICKHAM – His 9TH hit on my chart since 2018 is his follow-up to his first # 1 smash (“This Is Our God”). You can always count on Phil to release an uplifting and high-energy official music video to accompany his hits. “I Believe” is no exception:

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 3 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #SundayScripture, and #MusicMonday.

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 X and Flickr.

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) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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London To Fairford England

Welcome back to #TravelThursday. It was exactly 38 years ago tomorrow morning – the 10TH of November back in 1985 – that I arrived in a foreign country solo for the first time in my life – as a young 18-year-old.

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 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 this young 18-year-old teenager was being driven on the left along narrow and curvy farmland roads from Swindon to RAF Fairford.

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 about 150 concerts and live events in my life (100 since 2000), and the first 17 all occurred during those 2 years in England.

Next #TravelThursday – I’ll return home stateside – just like I did exactly 36 years ago. Let’s keep traveling together.

All rights reserved (c) 2023 Christopher M. Day, CountUp