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 October 25TH 2026 – the 506TH week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:
| TW | LW | WKS | SONG TITLE | ARTIST / SITE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 17 | Gonna Be Alright [5TH week @ # 1] |
Matt Maher |
| 2 | 3 | 10 | Living Water | Cain |
| 3 | 2 | 10 | If It Was Up To Me | Ben Fuller Ft. Carrie Underwood |
| 4 | 4 | 9 | Lord It Feels Good | TobyMac |
| 5 | 5 | 12 | It Really Is Amazing Grace | Phil Wickham Ft. Crowder |
| 6 | 8 | 3 | Beautiful Life | Switchfoot |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | Holding On (Praise God) | Jon Reddick |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Hard Place | Jaye King |
| 9 | – | 1 | So Long | Peter Burton |
| 10 | – | 1 | What If I Told You ? | for King + Country |
2025 – “Can’t Steal My Joy” – Josiah Queen X Brandon Lake
2024 – “Worship Through It” – Tasha Layton Ft. Chris Brown
2023 – “Praise The Lord” – Micah Tyler
2022 – “Good Morning Mercy” – Jason Crabb
2021 – “What If” – Matthew West
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp
BEN, CARRIE, TAYLOR, MADISON, & LOGAN – We have two songs vying for the # 2 spot behind Matt Maher. Last week Ben Fuller and Carrie Underwood rose to # 2 with “If It Was Up To Me”. They recorded it together about 21 months ago in a Nashville studio. This week – and the week before last week – the Cain siblings rose to # 2 with “Living Water”. It’s their 7TH hit on my chart. Their 1ST hit was # 1 exactly 6 years ago.
We’re up to my # 22 hit from my Salvation Era, and as I teased last week it’s from a band that brought me to church for the first time as an adult almost 20 years ago. The date – Saturday January 20TH 2007. I was exactly 5 months into my salvation, and I was looking to be a part of a church family because I knew that I could no longer get closer to God as an orphan on my own.
I started hearing promos on Call FM (91.7) – an over-the-air radio station at the time in Miami-Dade County Florida playing Christian rock, pop, hip hop, and dance. It was the radio station’s birthday, and they would be celebrating at Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida – 3 miles from my longtime home. Manic Drive was the headlining act of their birthday concert. I knew Manic Drive from their radio hit at the time – “Middle Of It All”. I went to that concert solo. As I recall – it was a show-up and pay-cash-at-the-door concert. As I also recall – I was probably the oldest person at that concert – at the age of 39.
The very next morning I attended my first church service as an adult. Their church services were actually held at the new movie theatre on the other side of town – not at their actual church building.
At # 22 it’s Manic Drive’s “Eleven Regrets” – their biggest and longest-running hit during that era – peaking at # 3 and spending 24 weeks on my chart in 2007 and into 2008.
Let’s Go Back next week for my # 23 hit.
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.
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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.
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