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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date August 6, 2021

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, 25, 30, 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 August 06TH 2006:

“Over My Head (Cable Car)” – The Fray
“SexyBack” – Justin Timberlake Ft. Timbaland
“Ain’t No Other Man” – Christina Aguilera
“I Write Sins Not Tragedies” – Panic! At The Disco
“Hate Me” – Blue October

“Hate Me” was a U.S. Rock, Alternative, Pop, and even Hot Adult Contemporary smash in 2006, and it was obviously a big hit on my own personal chart at the time. It actually spent 14 weeks on my chart – peaking at # 5 for 4 weeks in a row. Here’s the situation. I’ve never heard of the song before – or the artist – Blue October. So to refresh my memory I played it in its entirety on YouTube (just before I wrote this). Surely that would remind me of what this song sounded like. Nope. I still don’t remember it. How do I not remember a Top 5 hit that was on my chart from June to September of 2006 ? I can’t explain it. At first listen it’s a good track. It sounds depressing though. It actually sounds like my state-of-mind at the time this was a hit. Christ rescued and saved me just 2 weeks later.

This is the final secular edition of RETRO on the 1ST Friday of the month. Starting on Friday September 03RD 2021 I’ll be looking back at the soundtrack of the start of my salvation in Christ. You’ll see how the music changed as my life changed. I’ll share the start of my fantastic journey with you every 1ST Friday of the month starting next month.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to August 1996.

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 2006, Music, Radio, Salvation

2000s Blogging Christian God Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 2, 2021

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday July 02ND 2006:

“Ridin'” – Chamillionaire Ft. Krazie Bone
“Promiscuous” – Nelly Furtado Ft. Timbaland
“Ain’t No Other Man” – Christina Aguilera
“Crazy” – Gnarls Barkley
“Do It To It” – Cherish Ft. Sean Paul of YoungBloodZ

“Crazy” was a good song (still is). It peaked at # 2, and it probably could have made it to # 1 had it not been for my salvation 7 weeks later.

Trust me. 2006 will soon get very interesting, as I begin looking back at the 15TH anniversary of the start of my salvation in Christ. You’ll see how the music drastically changed once my life changed. My weekly hit music chart literally flipped just like that – much like a radio station that suddenly changes its format without notice. I’ll share the start of my fantastic journey with you every 1ST Friday of the month starting this September.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to July 1996.

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 2006, Music, Radio, Salvation

2000s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 4, 2021

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 04TH 2006:

“Ridin'” – Chamillionaire Ft. Krazie Bone
“What You Know” – T.I.
“Promiscuous” – Nelly Furtado Ft. Timbaland
“Beep” – The Pussycat Dolls Ft. WILL.I.AM
“Pump It” – The Black Eyed Peas

I don’t have much of anything to say about that chart. I was obviously in a hip hop era back then, and I don’t remember much of it at all. I was at a very low place at the time. About 11 weeks later my life would change forever.

One of my historical Excel spreadsheets tells me that I saw a free movie at my local movie theatre on my 39TH birthday on June 05TH 2006. That was “The Break-Up” starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. I rated it 3.5 stars.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to June 1996.

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 2006, Music, Radio

2000s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 7, 2021

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 07TH 2006:

“Let U Go” – Ashley Parker Angel
“Move Along” – The All-American Rejects
“Dirty Little Secret” – The All-American Rejects
“Pump It” – The Black Eyed Peas
“Beep” – The Pussycat Dolls Ft. WILL.I.AM

Well one of those songs is still a hit with me exactly 15 years later, and that’s “Dirty Little Secret”. It’s in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. It was actually my # 2 hit of all of 2006. I was about 3½ months away from the start of God’s salvation on my life. You’ll see my Top 5 “look-back” at 2006 suddenly flip to Christian rock and pop this September.

Exactly 15 years ago I ran a web site known as MASSIVESMASH.COM. It was in the middle of its 11TH year online at the time. It hosted my Top 25 weekly chart – known back then as the “Pure.Hits.Chart”. Here’s how I explained my chart just below my Top 25 that week in which “Let U Go” was at # 1:

The Pure.Hits.Chart is not based on actual raw data or statistics, but rather an intricate fusion of trends, indicatours, and factours to include retail and online activity, television, radio, street, and entertainment venue impressions, and other vital independent research. Based out of Homestead Florida U.S.A. its origins date back to November 1985. It was one of the very first weekly hit music charts (private, corporate, or otherwise) to ever publish on the World Wide Web (in November 1995). Today it is one of the most accessed and utilized privately-owned hit music charts on the web. It is consistently monitored and reviewed by numerous influential International chart compilation sites and hit music enthusiasts on the web. It is influential worldwide as commercial hit music radio station program directors, college and university radio station deejays, nightclub personalities, hit music fans, and the industry in general monitor the chart on a regular basis to determine what is currently hot, what is gaining steam, and what is cooling off. Up-and-coming hit music artists and their respective agents, producers, and labels search for their songs on the web, and they often find them right here on our chart. Positive feedback generated from all of these various sources and industries fuels the chart, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Feel free to write us at anytime !

That’s right – my web site was HUGE back then, and then it faded into obscurity.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to May 1996.

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 !