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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2007

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 2, 2022

Hello again retro music fans. 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, 20, 25, or 35 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 02ND 2007:

“How It Feels (To Be With You)” – Eleventyseven
“Staring At The Light” – The Wedding
“Illuminate” – Project 86
“The Minor Prophets” – Haste The Day
“Game On” – Disciple

15 years ago this week Project 86 out of the “OC” – Orange County California – were in my Top 3 with the hard rockin’ “Illuminate”. It’s all about lighting up the darkness – the shadows of night that include wicked culture, dark deeds, mass inferno, covert crimes, closet portal – “your skeletons are burning eternal.”

Project 86 have been rockin’ for the past 26 years. They are currently working on their upcoming double studio album – “OMNI”. Back in the late-2000s they hit my chart with 7 radio songs – “Something We Can’t Be” (# 14 in 2006), “Evil (A Chorus Of Resistance)” (# 14 in 2007), “Illuminate” (# 2 in 2007), “Molotov” (# 8 in 2008), “Put Your Lips To The TV” (# 1 in 2008), “Dark Angel Dragnet” (# 12 in 2009), and “The Butcher” (# 15 in 2009).

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 20 years ago to December 2002. It’s when an old Dino song from 1954 became an #EDM house smash.

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 2007, Music, Project 86, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 302

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 28, 2022

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday November 27TH 2022 – the 302ND week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	9	Ain’t Nobody [3RD week @ # 1]	Cody Carnes
2	2	6	Who I Am	Ben Fuller
3	3	16	Good Morning Mercy	Jason Crabb
4	4	15	New Creation	Mac Powell
5	5	6	Then Christ Came	MercyMe
6	6	9	Love Me Like I Am	for King & Country Ft. Jordin Sparks
7	7	12	Miracle Power	We The Kingdom
8	8	14	Build A Boat	Colton Dixon
9	9	2	There Is Freedom	Cochren & Co.
10	10	6	Same God	Elevation Worship

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “On Our Way” – MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
2020 – “Jericho” – Andrew Ripp
2019 – “Dead Man Walking” – Jeremy Camp
2018 – “Even Then” – Micah Tyler
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

302 – It’s the 302ND week of this 3RD era of my long-running weekly music chart. The 301ST week was not published last Monday due to my very special look-back at my 30 biggest hits of the first 300 weeks of my chart. This is the propreantepenultimate chart of 2022 with 4 more to go during the month of December. On Monday January 02ND 2023 I’ll present “My Top 22 Of 2022”.

1 – This edition marks the 37TH anniversary of my very first published weekly music chart. Back in 1985 I put pen and pencil to loose-leaf notebook paper, and I wrote down my Top 20 hits of the week in a magazine format. “We Built This City” from Starship was my first # 1 smash. “Running Up That Hill” (originally titled “A Deal With God”) from Kate Bush was also on my first chart at #11. It’s enjoyed quite the resurgence in 2022. In fact it’s been a bigger worldwide smash this year than it was in 1985 ! #StrangerThings

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 5 new entries – starting with a #SpecialWednesday blog post – followed by #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, and #Top10Monday.

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Be blessed my friends ! May our 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, Chart, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, TheJoyFM, WayFM, WGTS, Z883

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1987

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 25, 2022

It’s the 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 29TH 1987:

“Got My Mind Set On You” – George Harrison
“Need You Tonight” – INXS
“Hourglass” – Squeeze
“True Faith” – New Order
“Heaven Is A Place On Earth” – Belinda Carlisle

35 years ago this weekend I was enjoying the last of my 13 days with my family in Northern Virginia. I got to enjoy Thanksgiving with them for the first time in 3 years. (The previous two I was living and working in England.)

I was also being reintroduced to American Top 40 radio, and in the Washington D.C. area there was only one station at the time – All-Hit-105-WAVA. It was a Top 40 station for a little over 8 years starting near the end of 1983. (I actually didn’t listen to Top 40 radio back in 1983 into 1985.)

My music chart 35 years ago included British holdovers and American newcomers.

Former Go-Go Belinda Carlisle was one of those American newcomers. She scored a huge hit – in fact her biggest hit ever – with “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”. When I arrived home stateside it was in heavy rotation on WAVA, and MTV was playing it around the clock as well. It was brand-new to me. It was actually a hit here stateside before it broke-through overseas in the U.K. and European markets. It was also big in South Africa and Australia and New Zealand.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 15 years ago to December 2007. It’s when a hard rock band from Southern California were lighting up my Top 3.

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 1987, Music, Radio

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My Top 30 Hits – 300 Weeks

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 21, 2022

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from the previous week. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back nearly 45 years. But this week it’s a special chart to celebrate the past 300 weeks. It’s my #Top30Of300 !

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	27	See Me Through It	Brandon Heath
10	1	23	Yes He Can	Cain
11	2	25	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
12	1	22	Weary Traveler	Jordan St. Cyr
13	1	21	Church (Take Me Back)	Cochren & Co.
14	2	30	Known	Tauren Wells
15	1	26	Sunday Sermons	Anne Wilson
16	1	23	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
17	1	22	Broken Things	Matthew West
18	2	26	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
19	1	19	Even If	MercyMe
20	1	17	Fear No More	Building 429
21	1	25	Brighter Days	Blessing Offor
22	1	25	Dead Man Walking	Jeremy Camp
23	1	19	Nobody Loves Me Like You	Chris Tomlin
24	1	25	The God Who Stays	Matthew West
25	1	26	Different	Micah Tyler
26	1	20	Home	Chris Tomlin
27	1	20	Gracefully Broken	Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
28	2	22	Come What May	We Are Messengers
29	1	20	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
30	1	20	What If	Matthew West

300 WEEKS – We made it. From February 2017 to November 2022 – 5 years and 9 months – and still going strong. It’s been a fun 300 weeks. It’s also been a comforting 300 weeks during these troubled times in the world. The resurrection of my music chart after a 7-year hiatus from 2010 to 2017 was due to the discovery of K-LOVE – the nationwide Christian Adult Contemporary radio station. K-LOVE has been a blessing in my life, as it has been the soundtrack of the renaissance of my fantastic journey in Christ. I’m looking forward to the next 300 weeks, for the best is yet to come !

MATTHEW WEST – I had never heard of him before 2017, but now he’s my favorite singer. He’s hit my weekly chart with 7 songs, and 5 of them have gone to # 1. (2 peaked at # 2.) 4 of his 5 # 1 hits are in my Top 30 above. His last # 1 – “Me On Your Mind” – fell well short of my Top 30. He’s been on my chart a combined 143 weeks (more than any other artist) – with just 9 overlapping weeks. So that’s 134 out of 300 weeks, for a Matthew West presence of 44.7% of the era.

PRAISE TO OUR GOD – What a great chart 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. 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 concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again with the new weekend – and 4 new entries – starting with a special #ThanksgivingThursday, and continuing with #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, and #Top10Monday.

Be blessed my friends ! May our 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.