Category: Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 19, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month 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 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 18TH 2000:

“Higher” – Creed
“It’s Gonna Be Me” – ‘N Sync
“The One” – Backstreet Boys
“Back Here” – BBMak
“Oops ! … I Did It Again” – Britney Spears

Creed was at # 1 for the 5TH week in a row on this week exactly 20 years ago, and just below them – boy band – boy band – boy band – and teen pop star.

You know of the three boy bands BBMak were my favorite – and the most underrated. The British trio scored with a trio of hits on my chart – “Back Here” (# 3), “Still On Your Side” (# 11), and “Ghost Of You And Me” (# 13). A 4TH hit – “Out Of My Heart (Into Your Head)” – charted (nationally) too late in 2002 to make it onto my chart which had already flipped by that time from mainstream pop to electronic dance. That 4TH hit is my favorite of all of them, and it’s in medium rotation on my iPod Shuffles. (That’s right – I’m still rockin’ the iPod Shuffles a full decade after they peaked.)

So that was a fun pop chart back in the middle of June of 2000. Over at the multiplex I saw “Boys And Girls” – a forgettable Freddie Prinze, Jr. / Jason Biggs flick that had a lot of promise, but crash-landed. On the tube – “Survivor” debuted on CBS, and it was an instant out-of-the-box runaway summertime smash !

RETRO returns in 3 weeks, as I return back to July of 2005.

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 !

Tags 2000, BBMak, Music, Radio

Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 174

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 15, 2020

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 14TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	21	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
2	2	9	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
3	4	5	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
4	3	14	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
5	5	5	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	6	3	See The Light	TobyMac
7	7	5	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
8	10	2	I’m Leaning On You	Crowder Ft. Riley Clemmons
9	–	1	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
10	8	8	Great Things	Phil Wickham

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Home” – Chris Tomlin

The anthem of the times that we’re currently living in spends a 5TH week atop my chart:

♫ You’re my courage when I worry in the dead of night
You’re my strength ’cause I’m not strong enough to win this fight
You are greater than the battle raging in my mind
I will trust You Lord
I will fear no more ♫

Unspoken is back with their 4TH chart hit since 2017. “You’ve Always Been” is their 3RD hit in a row (nationally) from their current album “Reason”. The title-track was their biggest hit to date at Christian radio nationwide. It was a # 1 smash.

Here’s the official music video for “You’ve Always Been”:

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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Be blessed my friends ! May the 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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music

2000s Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 12, 2020

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 12TH 2005:

“Somebody Told Me” – The Killers
“Don’t Mess With My Heart” – Black Eyed Peas
“Behind These Hazel Eyes” – Kelly Clarkson
“Oh” – Ciara Ft. Ludacris
“Hollaback Girl” – Gwen Stefani

Some weeks I look back at my Top 5 hits on this weekend (however many) years ago, and I think to myself, “That was a great week of music. I remember what I was doing when those hits played on the radio every 2½ hours around the clock. Those were some good times and happy days.” This weekend 15 years ago is not one of those weekends.

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 !

Tags 2005, Music, Radio

Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 173

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 8, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	20	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
2	2	8	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
3	3	13	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
4	7	4	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
5	8	4	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	10	2	See The Light	TobyMac
7	9	4	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
8	6	7	Great Things	Phil Wickham
9	4	6	Love	We Are Messengers
10	–	1	I’m Leaning On You	Crowder Ft. Riley Clemmons

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Born Again” – Austin French
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

It’s a 4TH week at # 1 for what seems like an anthem of the times that we’re currently living in. I can’t explain it any better than The Afters:

We lost the long-running (12 weeks) # 1 smash “Almost Home” from MercyMe. It fell off my chart after 24 weeks. It’s my # 2 smash of the current era.

A man I saw last year LIVE in concert in Tampa – opening for MercyMe – was Mr. David Crowder and his band. He was awesome at that show, and I became a bigger fan of him than I was before I walked in to the arena. I especially loved his performance of “Wildfire” – a song that unfortunately didn’t catch-on at radio.

Be blessed my friends ! May the 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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music