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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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday February 08TH 2026 – the 469TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	4	Where Would I Be [2ND week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	2	4	Finished	Caleb & John
3	3	17	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
4	5	28	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
5	4	18	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
6	6	4	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
7	7	6	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac
8	8	3	The Love I Have For You	Colton Dixon
9	10	2	Make It Well	MercyMe
10	–	1	Good	Matthew West

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “In The Name Of Jesus” – JWLKRS Worship Ft. Maverick City Music
2024 – “I Believe” – Phil Wickham
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “The God Who Stays” – Matthew West
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard

TOP 10 ARTISTS – 6 out of my Top 7 artists over the past 9 years are on my chart this week – to include my # 1 artist (by a large margin) – Matthew West. His 11TH hit – “Good” – enters my chart. It’s the 185TH week on my chart for a Matthew West song. The other 5 artists who are in my Top 7 over the past 9 years are MercyMe (# 2), Phil Wickham (# 3), Chris Tomlin (# 5), TobyMac (# 6), and Brandon Lake (# 7). Missing is Micah Tyler (# 4). His new song on the radio should start receiving airplay by the end of this month. It’s titled “Perfectly”, and Micah wrote on his Facebook page that it “is a reminder that even when life feels messy, confusing, or uncertain … God is still faithful, still near, and still working perfectly.”

ONE-HIT WONDER – In June 2022 Ellie Holcomb reached my Top 5 with the brilliant “I Will Carry You”. It should’ve been a bigger hit on my chart that summer. I still enjoy hearing it. One of the good things coming out of this weekly feature is the fact that I’m rediscovering songs that were part of the soundtrack of my fantastic journey with Christ my Savior. It also gives me the chance to add the songs to my Spotify playlist so that I can keep hearing them. I did just that with Ellie’s track.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday February 01ST 2026 – the 468TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	6	3	Where Would I Be [1ST week @ # 1]	Peter Burton
2	7	3	Finished	Caleb & John
3	2	16	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
4	3	17	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
5	4	27	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
6	8	3	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
7	5	5	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac
8	9	2	The Love I Have For You	Colton Dixon
9	1	13	World On Fire	for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
10	–	1	Make It Well	MercyMe

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Running Back To You” – Seph Schlueter
2024 – “I Believe” – Phil Wickham
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Rescue Story” – Zach Williams
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard

CALEB & JOHN – Crino & Secker – better known as Caleb & John – are back with their 3RD hit, and it’s another smash, as “Finished” skyrockets 5 notches this week from # 7 to # 2. Their first 2 hits were both long-running # 1 smash hits, and they are 2 of my biggest hits over the past 9 years. “Hallelujah Feeling” is my # 1 smash over the past 468 weeks, and “Somebody Like Me” is my # 7 hit over that same time. (That’s out of 427 charted hits.) We’ll see if “Finished” can ascend to the top of my chart in the weeks to come.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Brooke Ligertwood and Brandon Lake are hardly one-hit wonders. Two of Hillsong Worship’s songs were on my chart in 2017 and 2018 where Brooke sang lead – “What A Beautiful Name” and “Who You Say I Am”. And then of course there are Brandon’s 11 hits since 2020. In 2022 Brooke and Brandon came together for a song titled – “Honey In The Rock”. It was a minor hit on my chart in May 2022, but nationally it was a bonafide sinaglong smash on the radio. K-LOVE played it in heavy rotation for many months, and they still play it occasionally. It’s the only time Brooke appeared on my chart as a solo artist.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday January 25TH 2026 – the 467TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	World On Fire [3RD week @ # 1]	for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
2	2	15	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
3	3	16	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
4	4	26	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
5	7	4	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac
6	10	2	Where Would I Be	Peter Burton
7	9	2	Finished	Caleb & John
8	8	2	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
9	–	1	The Love I Have For You	Colton Dixon
10	5	7	God Did !	Sons Of Sunday

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Running Back To You” – Seph Schlueter
2024 – “I Believe” – Phil Wickham
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Rescue Story” – Zach Williams
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha C. Leonard

PETER BURTON – For much of the latter portion of last year – I noticed an artist who I had never heard of with his song lingering down near the bottom of the national Christian pop music charts. It had a few hundred airplays each week, but its audience reach was fractional (well below a million). It was essentially being played at many local radio stations, but none of the big stations in big cities on regional or national networks. It took a while, but luckily Peter Burton’s debut song “Where Would I Be” got noticed, gained momentum, and is now one of the hottest new songs on the radio. His song was inspired by his struggles with mental illness and his victorious journey with Christ.

ONE-HIT WONDER – All Creatures are singer Chris Cron and producer Ben Thompson. Their debut song – stylized as “[wonder working]” – was a quick hit on the radio from March to May of 2022. It spent 2 weeks at # 1 as my 73RD chart-topper of this current era, and then the song inexplicably disappeared from the radio. Aside from my Spotify playlists – I don’t think I’ve heard it on the radio since then. It’s such a great overlooked song.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

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 almost 50 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday January 18TH 2026 – the 466TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	World On Fire [2ND week @ # 1]	for King + Country Ft. Taylor Hill
2	2	14	How Good It Is	Chris Tomlin
3	3	15	Dusty Bibles	Josiah Queen
4	4	25	Can’t Steal My Joy	Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
5	5	6	God Did !	Sons Of Sunday
6	6	31	What An Awesome God	Phil Wickham
7	9	3	Heaven On My Mind	TobyMac
8	–	1	Homesick For Heaven	Phil Wickham
9	–	1	Finished	Caleb & John
10	–	1	Where Would I Be	Peter Burton

# 1 This Week In:
2025 – “Running Back To You” – Seph Schlueter
2024 – “Hallelujah Feeling” – Caleb & John
2023 – “Who I Am” – Ben Fuller
2022 – “Weary Traveler” – Jordan St. Cyr
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Holy Water” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Lions” – Skillet

PHIL WICKHAM – “What An Awesome God” – last year’s # 1 smash overall – spends its 31ST week on my chart. It’s just 2 weeks shy of tying the record-breaking 33-week chart run of Patrick Mayberry’s “Lead On Good Shepherd” – 2024’s # 1 smash overall. Meanwhile – Phil’s follow-up hit -“Homesick For Heaven” – is new at # 8. Look for it to be huge during this first-half of 2026.

CALEB & JOHN – Welcome to the area. (They performed LIVE last night at the Manatee County Fair about 75 miles away from my Florida home.) Their 3RD hit is new at # 9, and it – is – “Finished”.

ONE-HIT WONDER – Apollo LTD have been making music together for the past decade. They spent 9 non-consecutive weeks on my chart during the Summer of 2021 with their soulful track for Christ that has that “Sunday Morning Feeling”. They got Ryan Stevenson to assist on it.

SPOTIFY – You can hear “My Top 10 Hits” anytime by accessing my CountUp playlist on Spotify. All 10 hits are there from top to bottom. You can hear them in order from # 1 to # 10, or you can shuffle them. My playlist will be updated every weekend (usually before the actual chart is presented here on Mondays). You can link to it here.

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. God used loud music on the radio in South Florida to reach me in August of 2006. I’ve been testifying about Him ever since.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp