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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 8, 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 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 07TH 1996:

“Hand In My Pocket” – Alanis Morissette
“You Oughta Know” – Alanis Morissette
“I Wanna B With U” – Fun Factory
“This House Is Not A Home” – The Rembrandts
“Name” – Goo Goo Dolls

I recently saw Alanis Morissette perform the classic “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” on “LIVE With Kelly And Ryan”. I thought she did a great job with it. 25 years ago Alanis was at the peak of her career as her “Jagged Little Pill” album soared to the top of the charts around the world carrying 6 hit singles with it. “You Oughta Know” and “Hand In My Pocket” were the first 2 of 6.

Top 40 radio was a bit dormant here in South Florida during the early-1990s, as the lone CHR station here in the market at the time (Y-100) was more Hot A.C. than Top 40. But late in 1995 a new Program Director took over the station, and he flipped it back to full-blown Mainstream Top 40 (almost overnight). Both Alanis Morissette hits were part of that Top 40 revolution back then, and it was part of the rebirth of my own hit music chart at the time after a 3-year hiatus.

1996 was a great year in Top 40 music, and I’m looking forward to sharing some of the biggest hits of that year with you once a month here at #CountUp. It’s hard to believe that 1996 was a quarter of a century ago, and that I was 28 (going on 29) back then.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to January 1991. It’ll be a unique “look back”, as I didn’t produce my weekly hit music chart back then because I was serving in Operations Desert Shield / Storm in Saudi Arabia. I’ll share my thoughts on the music of the war from “Tent City”.

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 1996, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 203

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

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 03RD 2021:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	6	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	3	13	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
3	2	8	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
4	5	8	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
5	4	19	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
6	6	4	Man Of Your Word	Maverick City Music
7	7	7	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells
8	8	6	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
9	9	6	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	10	2	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Holy Water” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2018 – “Lions” – Skillet

2021 starts pretty much the same way 2020 ended. There’s some good new music coming out that I’m hoping generates enough radio airplay to make it onto my chart. I’m especially interested in the new Cochren & Co. song “Who Can”, as well as Natalie Grant’s “Face To Face”. Phil Wickham is trending with his new one “Battle Belongs”. Look for my chart to heat-up in the next few weeks.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

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. I’m also on Twitter and Flickr.

Be blessed my friends ! May the 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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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 1, 2021

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 01ST 2006:

“Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” – Fall Out Boy
“Photograph” – Nickelback
“Gold Digger” – Kanye West
“My Humps” – The Black Eyed Peas
“Check On It” – Beyoncé Ft. Slim Thug

Happy New Year 2021 my friends. With this edition of RETRO we leave 2005, 1995, 1990, and 1985 behind, and we jump forward into 2006 (this week), 1996 (next week), 1991 (in 2 weeks), and 1986 (in 3 weeks). I’m looking forward to looking back at these years in pop music history.

Fall Out Boy led my chart as we flipped from 2005 to 2006. Their debut smash reached # 1 on my chart in mid-December 2005, and it stayed there for 9 weeks in a row. It’s a good durable pop-rock song that I still listen to occasionally via my iPod Shuffles at work.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to January 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 !

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My Top 20 Hits – 2020

59 hits created 52 weeks of Top 10 Christian hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – my Top 20 hits of 2020:

RK	PK	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	22	Almost Home	MercyMe
2	1	26	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
3	2	25	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
4	1	18	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	1	20	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	1	20	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
7	1	19	The God Who Stays	Matthew West
8	1	14	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
9	1	15	God So Loved	We The Kingdom
10	2	18	Your Name Is Power	Rend Collective
11	1	12	Rescue Story	Zach Williams
12	3	14	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
13	1	12	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
14	2	14	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
15	2	11	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
16	3	16	Waymaker	Michael W. Smith Ft. Vanessa Campagna
17	3	12	See A Victory	Elevation Worship
18	3	12	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
19	1	9	Miracles	Colton Dixon
20	1	11	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton

# 1 For The Year In:
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

What a great year for positive and encouraging music that tells the story of God. What a great chart to represent His music. What a unique year that 2020 was – a year like no other.

My # 2 artist of the past 202 weeks – MercyMe – scored my # 1 smash of 2020 with “Almost Home” – a song that spent 12 consecutive weeks at # 1 from late-February to early-May. MercyMe return to my year-end chart after no-showing in 2019. (“Even If” was my # 2 hit of 2017, and “Grace Got You” was my # 2 hit of 2018.)

My # 1 artist of the past 202 weeks – Matthew West – makes it 4 years in a row on my year-end chart, and this year he places 2 songs on it including the still-climbing “Truth Be Told” which is now at # 3 for the week. There’s a good chance that it could compete for # 1 next week.

My # 2 hit of 2020 – The Afters’ “I Will Fear No More” – was my longest-running hit of the year at 26 weeks – from late-January to mid-July. It was quite the timely song to hear during the peak of the pandemic.

Elevation Worship have now placed a song on my year-end chart for the past 3 years in a row.

Unspoken’s “You’ve Always Been” missed out on my year-end chart by just 2 chart points. It’s officially my # 21 hit of 2020.

My Top 20 Of 2020 chart was compiled by awarding 10 points for each week at # 1, 9 points for # 2, and so forth and so on down to 1 point for # 10. The points are then added, and the hits are ranked.

There were 14 # 1 hits in 2020, and 2 of them failed to make my Top 20 – “Holy Water” (We The Kingdom) and “Every Step Of The Way” (Cade Thompson). They were my first and last # 1 hits of the year respectively.

Be blessed my friends ! May the 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.