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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 67

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 27TH 2018:

  1. “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett [# 1 last week / 4TH week on chart]
  2. “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship [2 / 4TH]
  3. “All In” – Matthew West [6 / 4TH]
  4. “The Answer” – Jeremy Camp [7 / 2ND]
  5. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 8TH]
  6. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [5 / 8TH]
  7. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [3 / 10TH]
  8. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [8 / 16TH]
  9. “More Than Anything” – Natalie Grant [10 / 2ND]
  10. “Reckless Love” – Cory Asbury [- / 4TH]

Cory Asbury’s got the # 1 spot again this week on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart, and this week he reenters my chart at # 10 with “Reckless Love” – a song that spent just 3 weeks on my chart a couple of months ago. Like I stated last week – sometimes it takes weeks and months for a popular radio song to grow on me. I’m starting to hum this one offline, so it’s finally grown on me.

SPOILER: “Reckless Love” won the 2018 K-LOVE Fan Award for Worship Song Of The Year. (I actually didn’t vote for it.) It also won for “Breakout Single”. (Again I voted for another one.) This Thursday night at 8 PM EDT / 5 PM PDT I’ll be watching the K-LOVE Fan Awards on TBN. Last year I paid $17 to see them in a large movie theatre, and that movie theatre was packed-out. It was an awesome experience. This year I’ll be live-tweeting from my living room during the awards telecast @ChrisMDay with the hashtag #KLOVEFanAwards. You can follow along on Twitter, or via the web site edition of this blog. My Twitter feed appears along the right-side column. Tweet back at me if you wish.

This concludes my 4 blogs this weekend. I’ll do it again this upcoming 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 win souls for Christ. Enjoy this week. Love thy neighbor.

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1980s Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1988

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference from either 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 29TH 1988:

  1. I Should Be So Lucky – Kylie Minogue
  2. Together Forever – Rick Astley
  3. Naughty Girls Need Love Too – Samantha Fox
  4. Shattered Dreams – Johnny Hates Jazz
  5. One More Try – George Michael

I’m not a big fan of ’80s music. I actually place the music of the 1980s behind the music of the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s. It’s pretty much the 2ND least-favorite decade of my life as far as pop music is concerned. (This current decade is by far the worst.) I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I was simply not happy during much of the 1980s (at least the first-half of it).

I lived in southern England (Gloucestershire) for 2 years from November 1985 to November 1987. During that time I was exposed day and night to the British pop scene, and I pretty much loved every minute of it. I immersed myself in it. It was a refreshing (and radical) change from the American pop scene that I left behind. In 1988 a lot of that great British pop music followed me home stateside, so American radio in 1988 was like a rerun of British radio in 1987. And then the ’90s arrived early – in 1989 – when pop music began changing (for the better).

A week after I compiled the chart above (and the other 35 songs below it – I did personal Top 40 charts back then) – I turned 21 years old. I was ready for “grown-up music” that the ’90s would soon provide. (The ’90s were my favorite decade for music.)

It’s halftime. My weekend blogs continue on Sunday and Monday. In the meantime I’ll be posting more new photos over on my Flickr site (accessible via the web site edition of this blog).

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Christian God Ministry Music Radio

The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 66

Every Monday night I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 20TH 2018:

  1. “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett [# 1 last week / 3RD week on chart]
  2. “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship [2 / 3RD]
  3. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [3 / 9TH]
  4. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 7TH]
  5. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [5 / 7TH]
  6. “All In” – Matthew West [6 / 3RD]
  7. “The Answer” – Jeremy Camp [- / 1ST]
  8. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [9 / 15TH]
  9. “I Just Need U.” – TobyMac [7 / 9TH]
  10. “More Than Anything” – Natalie Grant [- / 1ST]

There’s no change this week to my Top 6, as all of the action starts at # 7. Jeremy Camp follows-up his # 1 smash “Word Of Life” with “The Answer”. A little more than 2 months after my salvation began in 2006 Jeremy was part of the rockin’ soundtrack of the earliest days of my fantastic journey with his track “Tonight”. It peaked at # 18 on my chart back then.

Chris Tomlin’s “Resurrection Power” appears to have just that. It actually rises back up a notch after spending the past 6 weeks in a row stalled at # 9. It’s by far the longest-running smash on my chart in its 15TH week.

Finally Natalie Grant’s “More Than Anything” enters my chart at # 10. If I produced a Top 20 or Top 25 chart every week it would’ve been on my chart for a few months by now. It’s been lurking beyond the Top 10 since pretty much the start of 2018. It’s currently in its 19TH week on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart. Sometimes I hear a new song on the radio, and it’s an instant out-of-the-box smash. (See this week’s Top 2.) Sometimes it takes a new song on the radio a few weeks or even a few months to grow on me to the point where I end up humming it over and over again. That’s what I’m finally doing now with “More Than Anything”; therefore, it’s made it into my Top 10 !

This concludes my 4 blogs this weekend. I’ll do it again this upcoming 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 win souls for Christ. He is “The Answer”, as He has “Resurrection Power” – “More Than Anything”. Amen.

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1980s 1990s Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1998

Every Friday night I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference from either 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 17TH 1998:

  1. Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
  2. How’s It Going To Be ? – Third Eye Blind
  3. Heroes – The Wallflowers
  4. I Want You Back – ‘N Sync
  5. Sex And Candy – Marcy Playground

Interesting chart from 20 years ago this weekend. Light rock (less talk) had displaced the late-’90s Eurodance party – at least temporarily.

31 years ago tomorrow – May 19TH 1987 (a Tuesday) – me and a buddy from work (Kelly Brown) ventured from RAF Fairford eastward to London England to see Duran Duran LIVE in concert at historic Wembley Arena. It was part of their worldwide “Strange Behaviour” tour of 1987 that promoted the songs off their “Notorious” album. It was a typical British teen pop concert, and I was right there “teening-out” at the young energetic age of 19 (2½ weeks shy of my 20TH birthday).