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1980s Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1988

From my well-preserved archives …

  1. I Should Be So Lucky – Kylie Minogue
  2. Always On My Mind – The Pet Shop Boys
  3. Together Forever – Rick Astley
  4. Naughty Girls Need Love Too – Samantha Fox
  5. You Don’t Know – Scarlett And Black

These were my Top 5 hits exactly 30 years ago this weekend – Sunday May 08TH 1988.

One Australian (who is now British too) – and 4 British acts occupied my Top 5 back then. The late-1980s were a great time for danceable pop music – much of it imported from across the Atlantic.

High atop the Billboard Hot 100 on this week 30 years ago was “Wishing Well” from Terence Trent D’arby. Right behind him was Gloria Estefan And The Miami Sound Machine with “Anything For You” (which would climb to # 1 the following week).

Next Friday night I’ll jump forward 20 years to 2008 – the 22ND month of my Christian music revolution (which began my salvation).

Have a great weekend my brothers and sisters. I’ll be back on Sunday with Scripture.

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Christian God Music Radio

The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 63

  1. “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French [# 1 last week / 6TH week on chart]
  2. “I Just Need U.” – TobyMac [2 / 6TH]
  3. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [3 / 6TH]
  4. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 4TH]
  5. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [5 / 4TH]
  6. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [6 / 16TH]
  7. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [7 / 20TH]
  8. “Come To The Table” – Sidewalk Prophets [8 / 13TH]
  9. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [9 / 12TH]
  10. “Walking On Water” – NeedToBreathe [10 / 3RD]

No chart movements over the past few weeks. Stay tuned next week for what should be an active chart.

A couple of  Saturday nights ago I was praising, worshiping, singing, and dancing for God with thousands of my brothers and sisters in Christ at “Worship Night In America” at a jam-packed BB&T Center in Sunrise Florida. Chris Tomlin, Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario, Tauren Wells, and Pat Barrett of Housefires all appeared and performed LIVE on stage simultaneously with back-up musicians. Nobody was an opening or supporting act. Nobody was a headliner. Each artist took the lead with their respective hits.

I had an excellent floor seat right along the catwalk portion joining the two stages (main and middle). The stage was shaped like an “I”, and I was literally at the bottom left-hand corner of the “I” with the middle stage right behind me. I could have touched both Tauren Wells and Matt Maher as they played the piano to their respective hits. I felt like I was backing them up with vocals as thousands watched on. (I posted a couple of photos on Twitter from the concert.)

It was an awesome concert – 21 songs in all. Here’s the complete setlist:

  1. “This Is Amazing Grace”
  2. “God’s Great Dance Floor”
  3. “Love Has A Name”
  4. “Your Grace Is Enough”
  5. “When We Pray”
  6. “The Way (New Horizon)”
  7. “Como Dijiste”
  8. “Our God”
  9. “Hills and Valleys”
  10. “How He Loves”
  11. “Lord I Need You”
  12. “How Great Is Our God” (Reprise)
  13. “Resurrection Power”
  14. “What a Friend”
  15. “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)”
  16. “In The River”
  17. “What A Beautiful Name”
  18. “Good, Good Father”
  19. “Great Are You Lord”
  20. “Home”
  21. “Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)”
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1990s Music Radio

The Major’s Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1998

  1. Amnesia – Chumbawamba
  2. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) – The Backstreet Boys
  3. This Is How We Party – S.O.A.P.
  4. Superhero (Lover) – Daze
  5. Sex And Candy – Marcy Playground

These were my Top 5 hits exactly 20 years ago this weekend – Sunday April 19TH 1998.

As a not quite 31-year-old I was clearly in to the HI-NRG pop-party bar scene back then. In fact Downtown Disney Pleasure Island (Florida) was one of my favorite places to hang out at the time.

I’ve been producing my own personal weekly hit music chart off and on for the past 30+ years. In 2 weeks on Friday May 04TH I’ll go back another 10 years to the 1ST weekend of May of 1988.

This blog is going on hiatus for a little over a week. I’ll be back in 10 days on Monday April 30TH 2018 with my brand new Top 10 music chart. We’ll see if Austin French can hold on to the # 1 spot.

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Christian God Music Radio

The Major’s Top 10 Hits – Week 61

  1. “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French [# 1 last week / 4TH week on chart]
  2. “I Just Need U.” – TobyMac [2 / 4TH]
  3. “What A Friend” – Matt Maher [5 / 4TH]
  4. “Grace Got You” – MercyMe [4 / 2ND]
  5. “No Matter What” – Ryan Stevenson Ft. Bart Millard [7 / 2ND]
  6. “No One Like Our God” – Lincoln Brewster [3 / 14TH]
  7. “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard [6 / 18TH]
  8. “Come To The Table” – Sidewalk Prophets [8 / 11TH]
  9. “Resurrection Power” – Chris Tomlin [9 / 10TH]
  10. “Walking On Water” – NeedToBreathe [- / 1ST]

NeedToBreathe hold this week’s lone new entry at # 10. It’s their 3RD hit on this chart in a little over a year. “Testify” spent 4 weeks at # 2 last March and April. They followed that up with “Hard Love” which spent 5 weeks at # 2 – and a single week at # 1 in August.

This Saturday night I’ll be praising and worshiping God with thousands of my brothers and sisters in Christ at “Worship Night In America” at the BB&T Center in Sunrise Florida. Chris Tomlin is the headliner, and supporting him will be Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario, Tauren Wells, and Pat Barrett of Housefires. I’ve got an excellent floor seat waiting for me just 11 rows from the middle of the stage. (I bought my ticket over 3 months ago.) I’ll be singing and dancing all night long !

This Top 10 chart will continue on, and the next time you see it online will be 2 weeks from tonight on Monday April 30TH 2018. I’ll tell you all about the concert then !