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My Top 10 Hits – Week 204

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 11, 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 10TH 2021:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	7	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	2	14	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
3	4	9	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
4	3	9	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
5	5	20	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
6	6	5	Man Of Your Word	Maverick City Music
7	8	7	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
8	10	3	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United
9	7	8	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells
10	9	7	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Holy Water” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody Loves Me Like You” – Chris Tomlin
2018 – “Lions” – Skillet

Cade Thompson remains at # 1 for the 6TH week in a row with his uplifting and up-tempo “Every Step Of The Way”.

I love the opening lyrics of the song:

♫ If I could talk to myself eight years ago
Seeing what I’ve seen – knowing what I know
I would tell that quiet kid
There’ll be days ahead
When it doesn’t make sense

I would tell him he can trust Your hand
‘Cause now I gotta picture of the greater plan
I can see with perfect clarity
It wasn’t tragedy
It was what I needed

I couldn’t see it then
But now I understand ♫

I can relate to that, but for me it was 14½ years ago. I was once a quiet kid. I was a quiet kid in my teens, 20s, and 30s, but then I was rescued and saved at 39. It came out of nowhere. I didn’t plan it. I didn’t schedule it. I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t know what hit me when it hit me. I didn’t understand it at all. It took me several months at the start of my journey to figure it out, and I’m still figuring it out as I move closer to God’s light.

Oh – I’m no longer a quiet kid. I have a testimony to evangelize !

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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music, Radio

1990s Blogging Music Radio

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

Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 203

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

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.

Tags Blog, Christian, KLOVE, Music, Radio

2000s Blogging Music Radio

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 !

Tags 2006, Music, Radio