Category: Music

My Top 25 Hits – 250 Weeks

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 1, 2021

Greetings my friends. It’s the start of a brand-new season, and a brand-new month, and a brand-new weekend of blogging.

It’s Wednesday December 01ST 2021. I am back from vacation, and I am back to writing and publishing 4 blog posts each weekend (from Thursday to Monday). But all this month – starting today – I’ll be presenting special blog posts every Wednesday as well, so that’s 5 blog posts each weekend in December !

#TravelThursday continues tomorrow with the kickoff of my 7-part series on my recent 18-day / 2,822-mile / 5-state road-trip between South Florida and North Texas.

But right now it’s a special hit music chart to celebrate the past 250 weeks of my hit music chart. It’s my #Top25Of250 !

250 weekly hit music charts and 235 positive and encouraging hits have created this cumulative chart of my Top 25 hits of this current (K-LOVE) era of my chart ever since it was resurrected on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017 here in the U.S.A. after a 7-year hiatus. It’s based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay.

RK	PK	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	25	Nobody (But Jesus)	Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2	1	26	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
3	1	24	Almost Home	MercyMe
4	1	22	Do It Again	Elevation Worship
5	1	27	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
6	1	27	Even Then	Micah Tyler
7	1	26	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
8	1	24	Grace Got You	MercyMe
9	1	23	Yes He Can	Cain
10	2	25	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
11	1	21	Church (Take Me Back)	Cochren & Co.
12	2	30	Known	Tauren Wells
13	1	23	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
14	1	22	Broken Things	Matthew West
15	2	26	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
16	1	19	Even If	MercyMe
17	1	17	Fear No More	Building 429
18	1	25	Dead Man Walking	Jeremy Camp
19	1	19	Nobody Loves Me Like You	Chris Tomlin
20	1	25	The God Who Stays	Matthew West
21	1	26	Different	Micah Tyler
22	1	20	Home	Chris Tomlin
23	1	20	Gracefully Broken	Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard
24	1	20	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
25	1	20	What If	Matthew West

MATTHEW WEST – What can I say about him ? He’s my # 1 artist over the past 250 weeks – statistically and genuinely. When someone asks me who my favorite singer is – the answer is Matthew West. Most of the time I get a quick response of “Who ?”. Like nearly every other artist on my Top 25 – I had never heard of Matthew West until 250 weeks ago. 5 out of 6 of his radio hits since 2017 are on my Top 25 – including his current hit “What If”. They all hit # 1 or # 2, and they all spent at least 20 weeks on my chart. The lone exception was his 2ND hit during the Summer of 2018 – “All In”. (It reached # 2, but it only managed a meager 11 weeks on my chart.)

250 WEEKS – What a great chart of music that praises and worships our God, and gives Him all of the glory. Each song on here makes me smile – and sing along. Some have a beat that make me want to dance for Jesus. They remind me of a distinct 20-to-30-week time-period over the past 250 weeks as I moved closer to God aboard this (now) 15-year fantastic journey that He has blessed me with.

If you’re not familiar with one or any of these songs then use Google, Bing, Amazon, Apple, or YouTube to check them out. Enjoy the music, but especially listen to the words. The words of these songs represent God’s Word. Any one of these songs can change a life forever.

He has given me a new song to sing – a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what He has done, and be amazed. They will put their trust in the LORD. (Psalm 40:3 NLT)

This is the start of a 5-blog-post-weekend. I’ll conclude this weekend this upcoming Monday December 06TH with the return of “My Top 10 Hits – Week 251”. Thank You for allowing me to share God’s Good News through His music.

Tags Blog, Chart, Christ, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, WGTS

1980s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1986

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 26, 2021

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, 25, 30, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 30TH 1986:

“Waiting For The Ghost Train” – Madness
“French Kissin’ In The U.S.A.” – Debbie Harry
“Sometimes” – Erasure
“Everybody Have Fun Tonight” – Wang Chung
“Hip To Be Square” – Huey Lewis And The News

What great music. What fond memories of that wonderful time of my life – enjoying the company of my friends and the fun times that we shared together in the south of England. This was the 2ND (U.S.) Thanksgiving of my life away from my family back home stateside. (The 1ST was the year before in 1985. I had just arrived in England 2½ weeks earlier.)

Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” was the # 1 smash all across the United Kingdom, and back home stateside Bon Jovi scored their very first # 1 smash with the hard-rockin’ “You Give Love A Bad Name” from their multi-platinum album “Slippery When Wet”.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 15 years ago to December 2006. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

This is the end of an abbreviated blog weekend, as #SundayScripture and #Top10Monday are on hiatus for the rest of this month of November. They will both return during the 1ST weekend of December. In fact a full weekend of blogging returns next weekend – with 5 new entries on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

Tags 1986, BBC, British, England, Music, Radio

1990s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 19, 2021

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 17TH 1991:

“The One And Only” – Chesney Hawkes
“All 4 Love” – Color Me Badd
“Romantic” – Karyn White
“Emotions” – Mariah Carey
“Can’t Stop This Thing We Started” – Bryan Adams

After New Kids On The Block (late-1980s) and before Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync (late-1990s) there was Color Me Badd. They formed in 1985 in high school in Oklahoma City, but they didn’t hit it big until 1991 (after the New Kids success had begun to wane). They were pretty much the only “boy band” to enjoy success on the radio during the early-to-mid-1990s. They scored with 9 Top 40 hits here in the U.S. including their first 3 at # 1 or # 2.

“All 4 Love” was the 3RD of those 3 big early hits. It actually replaced Michael Jackson’s “Black Or White” at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1992. (I loved both of those songs.) I loved the breezy – simple – poppy feel of “All 4 Love”. It really felt like a Springtime song, but it was a hit in the Autumn and Winter instead. I think (to this day) it’s my 2ND-favorite Color Me Badd song – 2ND to “Choose” in 1994. Still can’t get enough of both “All 4 Love” and “Choose” some 3 decades later.

Here’s the official music video for “All 4 Love”. It’s SO 1991 !

Fun Fact: I saw Color Me Badd LIVE in concert in Cincinnati Ohio – exactly 5 years ago tonight on November 19TH 2016. (They were part of the “I Love The 90s Tour”.)

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to November 1986. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

Tags 1991, Music, Radio

1990s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 12, 2021

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 10TH 1996:

“Head Over Feet” – Alanis Morissette
“One And One” – Robert Miles
“Do You Miss Me ?” – Jocelyn Enriquez
“Let’s Make A Night To Remember” – Bryan Adams
“If It Makes You Happy” – Sheryl Crow

I’m gonna do this “Mini-Thoughts” style. Longtime readers of my blog know what that means:

Alanis was HUGE back in the mid-to-late-1990s.
She scored with 9 hits on my chart through 1999.
“Head Over Feet” was her 3RD (and final) # 1 smash (for me).
Everyone remembers “Children” from Robert Miles.
It was a European dance smash that broke-through the U.S. market.
But “One And One” was less successful.
It did break-through here in Miami; hence, it’s # 2 peak on my chart.
British Trance singer Maria Nayler performed the vocals on “One And One”.
“Children” could be considered as one of the first trance hits on my chart.
“One And One” – the 2ND trance hit.
Trance music would later explode and take over my chart in 2002. #EDM
“Do You Miss Me” was a regional hit in dance-favored U.S. radio markets.
It was a long-lasting smash here in dance-friendly Miami.
I think Y-100 played it 10 times a day for more than half-a-year.
It spent 21 weeks on my chart – including its first 19 in my Top 10.
Like myself – Jocelyn Enriquez is part Filipino.
She was only 21 when “Do You Miss Me ?” was a hit on the radio.
Nowadays Jocelyn is a born-again Christian !
In fact she’s a Worship Pastor alongside her husband of 22 years.
They serve at Calvary Chapel Of San Antonio (Texas).
It’s awesome to discover that a mainstream pop artist follows Christ now.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to November 1991. “I’m so glad you’re my girl. I’ll do anything for you. Call you every night, and give you flowers too. I thank the Lord for you, and think about you all the time. I ask Him everyday that you’ll forever be mine.” That Top 5 hit will be featured next week. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

Tags 1996, Music, Radio