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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 10, 2020

Every 2ND, 3RD, and 4TH Friday of the month 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, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday July 10TH 2005:

“Don’t Mess With My Heart” – Black Eyed Peas
“Incomplete” – Backstreet Boys
“Behind These Hazel Eyes” – Kelly Clarkson
“Hollaback Girl” – Gwen Stefani
“Switch” – Will Smith

This was another forgettable week of pop music during a mostly forgettable summer of a mostly forgettable year. A few good songs came out in 2005. I just can’t remember any of them right now.

Let’s check-out the multiplex cinema scene from this month 15 years ago. I saw “War Of The Worlds”, “Rebound”, “Bewitched”, and “Wedding Crashers”. Surprisingly I rated “Rebound” as the only 4-star movie back then. That’s the one that starred Martin Lawrence as a former college basketball coach who got fired because of his bad temper. So he went to coach his former junior high school’s basketball team with great success. Nope. I don’t remember that movie. I had to look it up on Wikipedia.

You know sometimes history is not pretty – especially our own personal history. 2005 was not a good year for me; yet, I choose to look back at it once a month this year. It was a part of me. It existed. You can’t make a better future if you ignore or deny history – if you forget where you came from. Yeah 2005 was a dark year for me, but 2006 was coming, and there was light up ahead.

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 2005, Music, Radio

Christian Driving God Ministry Music Radio Travel

My Top 10 Hits – Week 177

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 6, 2020

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 July 05TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	12	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
2	2	8	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
3	5	8	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
4	3	24	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
5	4	17	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
6	7	5	I’m Leaning On You	Crowder Ft. Riley Clemmons
7	8	8	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
8	9	4	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
9	10	3	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton
10	6	6	See The Light	TobyMac

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “The Comeback” – Danny Gokey

WELCOME BACK to my weekly #CountUp of my favorite hits on Christian radio. Last week’s chart was unpublished, and on it Jeremy Camp secured his 3RD # 1 smash in less than 3 years (out of 4 hits). His “Keep Me In The Moment” had me singing along and swaying back-and-forth to the rhythm on-the-road during my recent 9-day / 2-state / 1,690-mile road-trip.

I listened to a lot of great radio while on vacation. My home station K-LOVE dominated the South Florida airwaves – as well as all throughout North Florida and South Alabama. In-between The JOY-FM and Z-88.3 kept me moving to the music in Central Florida.

There’s a lot of great new positive music out there. I could have easily done a Top 15 chart this week with 5 new entries, but I’m hangin’ tough with the Top 10 format.

This concludes a short 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

Blogging Christian Music Radio Travel

My Top 10 Hits – Week 175

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 22, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	22	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
2	2	10	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
3	3	6	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
4	4	15	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
5	5	6	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	6	4	See The Light	TobyMac
7	7	6	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
8	8	3	I’m Leaning On You	Crowder Ft. Riley Clemmons
9	9	2	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
10	–	1	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Home” – Chris Tomlin

It’s an unusually quiet chart week this week. Admittingly I didn’t listen to much of K-LOVE this past week since they were in fundraising mode. I started listening to them as my primary radio station on the Tuesday after Presidents’ Day in February of 2017. Before that day I didn’t even know they existed. It immediately inspired the resurrection of this weekly hit music chart after a 7-year hiatus. A couple of months later before the start of their Spring pledge drive that year I began financially supporting them every month. I’ve been doing so ever since then.

I have nothing against the seasonal pledge drive, but I just want to hear good continuous music on the radio. This past week I listened to a lot of SiriusXM – both The Message and ’70s On 7.

This upcoming next couple of weeks I’ll listen to a lot of K-LOVE on the road – as well as other great radio stations such as WAY-FM and The JOY-FM. Next weekend’s chart will be unpublished. I’ll present my next Top 10 chart in 2 weeks on Monday July 06TH 2020.

This concludes another season here at #CountUp after 15½ weekends and 63 blog posts in a row every Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I hope that you enjoyed reading along and tracking with me over these past 3+ months. I’ve tried to be enlightening, entertaining, and informing – all at the same time. Now it’s time to get refreshed and rejuvenated.

I’ll be back for an all-new season of blogging in a couple of weeks – starting with “Sunday Scripture” on Sunday July 05TH 2020. I hope that you’ll join me then. In the meantime feel free to look back at older blog posts that you may have missed, or go outside and get some sun !

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

2000s Movies Music Radio Television

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2000

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 19, 2020

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 20 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 18TH 2000:

“Higher” – Creed
“It’s Gonna Be Me” – ‘N Sync
“The One” – Backstreet Boys
“Back Here” – BBMak
“Oops ! … I Did It Again” – Britney Spears

Creed was at # 1 for the 5TH week in a row on this week exactly 20 years ago, and just below them – boy band – boy band – boy band – and teen pop star.

You know of the three boy bands BBMak were my favorite – and the most underrated. The British trio scored with a trio of hits on my chart – “Back Here” (# 3), “Still On Your Side” (# 11), and “Ghost Of You And Me” (# 13). A 4TH hit – “Out Of My Heart (Into Your Head)” – charted (nationally) too late in 2002 to make it onto my chart which had already flipped by that time from mainstream pop to electronic dance. That 4TH hit is my favorite of all of them, and it’s in medium rotation on my iPod Shuffles. (That’s right – I’m still rockin’ the iPod Shuffles a full decade after they peaked.)

So that was a fun pop chart back in the middle of June of 2000. Over at the multiplex I saw “Boys And Girls” – a forgettable Freddie Prinze, Jr. / Jason Biggs flick that had a lot of promise, but crash-landed. On the tube – “Survivor” debuted on CBS, and it was an instant out-of-the-box runaway summertime smash !

RETRO returns in 3 weeks, as I return back to July of 2005.

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 !