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1980s Driving Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1989

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 10, 20, or 30 years ago (rotating each week). Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 15TH 1989:

  1. “She Wants To Dance With Me” – Rick Astley
  2. “Smooth Criminal” – Michael Jackson
  3. “Love Bites” – Def Leppard
  4. “The Promise” – When In Rome
  5. “Waiting For A Star To Fall” – Boy Meets Girl

30 years ago this weekend Rick Astley scored his 4TH # 1 smash on my chart, Michael Jackson scored his 2ND # 2 smash on my chart, and Def Leppard reached # 3 with “Love Bites” in its 22ND week on my chart.

I was listening to all 3 of those big hits on South Florida’s heritage Top 40 station Y-100 – in a new car !  That’s the answer to my teaser from yesterday’s blog post. After a little over 13 months of essentially riding a 10-speed bike all around Homestead AFB I decided to buy my first brand new car of my life. I bought a shiny red 1989 Geo Spectrum. I was free at last – free to flee the base and drive the mean streets of South Florida for the first time ever. So I’ve now been driving for the past 30 years, I’m on my 6TH new car, and I’m approaching 330,000 miles driven – an average of just shy of 11,000 miles per year.

I’m 51½ now, so I bought my first new car at 21½. YES – I drove as a teenager too. I used my newspaper carrier money to buy a used (no frills) 1980 Chevy Citation in 1983. I got to drive around in that for a couple of years through my first 5 months in the Air Force. In November of 1985 I was sent to the United Kingdom, and I sold my car. I never drove in the U.K., but one of my friends did. I wouldn’t drive again until 30 years ago this weekend.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday with an all-new blog post. Enjoy your Saturday.

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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 99

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 06TH 2019:

  1. “Well Done” – The Afters [# 1 last week / 12TH week on chart]
  2. “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin [2 / 10TH]
  3. “Even Then” – Micah Tyler [3 / 21ST]
  4. “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers [6 / 6TH]
  5. “joy” – for King & Country [4 / 7TH]
  6. “Known” – Tauren Wells [5 / 22ND]
  7. “Not Today” – Hillsong United [7 / 16TH]
  8. “Red Letters” – Crowder [8 / 3RD]
  9. “Best News Ever” – MercyMe [9 / 3RD]
  10. “Forever On Your Side” – NeedToBreathe [10 / 2ND]

# 1 One Year Ago This Week – “Lions” – Skillet

My first new weekly chart of 2019 looks pretty much like my last new weekly chart of 2018. There are no new entries, and only one hit makes upward momentum – “Maybe It’s OK” – the 3RD big hit in a row from We Are Messengers. Their “Magnify” hit # 2, and their “Point To You” hit # 3 in 2017. I get to see them LIVE in concert next month at the TobyMac show !

Next Monday night I’ll present my 100TH weekly chart of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017 – the night of the last TobyMac show that I attended. I’m not planning anything special. It’ll just be another new weekly chart. That’s the way this chart was born again. No fanfare. No planning. It just happened. God’s Glory.

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

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. Enjoy this week my friends. I’m on Twitter @ChrisMDay, and I’m also the man behind the tweets for my church @LivingWatersHFL. May God bless you – always and forever.

All rights reserved (c) 2019 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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1990s Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1999

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 10, 20, or 30 years ago (rotating each week). Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 03RD 1999:

  1. “One Week” – Barenaked Ladies
  2. “Thank U” – Alanis Morissette
  3. “Baby One More Time” – Britney Spears
  4. “This Kiss” – Faith Hill
  5. “From This Moment On” – Shania Twain

4 out of 5 of those hits were featured 3 weeks ago when I last went #Retro to 20 years ago. Faith Hill has the lone new entry with her long-running country-pop crossover global smash “This Kiss”. It was in its 24TH week on my chart 20 years ago this weekend. It spent 5 weeks in my Top 5 and 20 weeks in my Top 10. It still sounds great today !

 

It’s halftime. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with my remaining two blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thank You for reading my blog.

All rights reserved (c) 2019 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

The Major’s Top 18 Hits – 2018

57 hits created 52 weeks of Top 10 Christian hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – the Top 18 hits of 2018:

  1. “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship [peaked at # 1 for 4 weeks]
  2. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [# 1 for 2 weeks]
  3. “Even Then” – Micah Tyler [# 1 for 3 weeks]
  4. “Known” – Tauren Wells [# 2 for 2 weeks]
  5. “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns [# 1 for 10 weeks]
  6. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard [# 1 for 6 weeks]
  7. “Who You Say I Am” – Hillsong Worship [# 1 for 4 weeks]
  8. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [# 1 for 4 weeks]
  9. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [# 3 for 1 week]
  10. “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett [# 1 for 5 weeks]
  11. “Dream Small” – Josh Wilson [# 1 for 3 weeks]
  12. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [# 1 for 1 week]
  13. “You Say” – Lauren Daigle [# 2 for 2 weeks]
  14. “Well Done” – The Afters [# 1 for 3 weeks]
  15. “Bleed The Same” – Mandisa Ft. TobyMac [# 2 for 3 weeks]
  16. “All In” – Matthew West [# 2 for 1 week]
  17. “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French [# 1 for 4 weeks]
  18. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [# 3 for 1 week]

# 1 Of 2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

What a great year for God’s music. What a great chart to represent His music. Not a lot of surprises there. When “Do It Again” and “Grace Got You” became summertime anthems and finished as # 1 and # 2 on my special “Summer Of 2018” chart – they pretty much clinched # 1 and # 2 for the entire year.

MercyMe also had the # 2 smash of all of 2017 with “Even If”. Both “Even If” and “Grace Got You” fell 8 points shy of the # 1 spot for their respective years.

This chart was compiled by awarding 10 points for each week at # 1, 9 points for # 2, and so forth and so on down to 1 point for # 10. The points are then added, and the hits are ranked.

There were 13 # 1 hits in 2018, and all but 1 of them made the Top 18 – “Lions” (Skillet). It was a holdover from 2017, and its run at # 1 was actually at the end of its chart life.

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

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. Enjoy this first week of 2019 my friends. I’m on Twitter @ChrisMDay, and I’m also the man behind the tweets for my church @LivingWatersHFL. May God bless you – always and forever.

All rights reserved (c) 2019 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries