Tag: Music

My Top 10 Hits – Week 174

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 15, 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 June 14TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	21	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
2	2	9	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
3	4	5	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
4	3	14	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
5	5	5	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	6	3	See The Light	TobyMac
7	7	5	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
8	10	2	I’m Leaning On You	Crowder Ft. Riley Clemmons
9	–	1	You’ve Always Been	Unspoken
10	8	8	Great Things	Phil Wickham

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

The anthem of the times that we’re currently living in spends a 5TH week atop my chart:

♫ You’re my courage when I worry in the dead of night
You’re my strength ’cause I’m not strong enough to win this fight
You are greater than the battle raging in my mind
I will trust You Lord
I will fear no more ♫

Unspoken is back with their 4TH chart hit since 2017. “You’ve Always Been” is their 3RD hit in a row (nationally) from their current album “Reason”. The title-track was their biggest hit to date at Christian radio nationwide. It was a # 1 smash.

Here’s the official music video for “You’ve Always Been”:

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

2000s Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 12, 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 June 12TH 2005:

“Somebody Told Me” – The Killers
“Don’t Mess With My Heart” – Black Eyed Peas
“Behind These Hazel Eyes” – Kelly Clarkson
“Oh” – Ciara Ft. Ludacris
“Hollaback Girl” – Gwen Stefani

Some weeks I look back at my Top 5 hits on this weekend (however many) years ago, and I think to myself, “That was a great week of music. I remember what I was doing when those hits played on the radio every 2½ hours around the clock. Those were some good times and happy days.” This weekend 15 years ago is not one of those weekends.

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 God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 173

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 8, 2020

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	20	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
2	2	8	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
3	3	13	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
4	7	4	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
5	8	4	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	10	2	See The Light	TobyMac
7	9	4	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
8	6	7	Great Things	Phil Wickham
9	4	6	Love	We Are Messengers
10	–	1	I’m Leaning On You	Crowder Ft. Riley Clemmons

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Born Again” – Austin French
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

It’s a 4TH week at # 1 for what seems like an anthem of the times that we’re currently living in. I can’t explain it any better than The Afters:

We lost the long-running (12 weeks) # 1 smash “Almost Home” from MercyMe. It fell off my chart after 24 weeks. It’s my # 2 smash of the current era.

A man I saw last year LIVE in concert in Tampa – opening for MercyMe – was Mr. David Crowder and his band. He was awesome at that show, and I became a bigger fan of him than I was before I walked in to the arena. I especially loved his performance of “Wildfire” – a song that unfortunately didn’t catch-on at radio.

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 Life Music Radio Television

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1971

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 5, 2020

I love doing this feature on Fridays. It’s an ode to my long-running hobby of a #CountUp of the top pop hits each week. It’s also a nod to my previous endeavor online – the predecessor to this blog – my own once-popular dot.com hit music web site that ran from the late-1990s through the first year of my salvation. I once had a feature on there called “The Major’s MASSIVE Memories” where I highlighted the greatest hits of my life.

Today – Friday June 05TH 2020 – is my 53RD birthday ! It feels great to be 53. Some days I feel 53. Some days I feel older than 53. Other days I feel younger. Speaking of younger:

YEP – That’s me from exactly 49 years ago on Saturday June 05TH 1971. There I am turning 4 years old blowing out the candles on my birthday cake. That was in our cozy apartment in Greenbelt Maryland.

If I was listening to the radio on that day (and I probably was) I was listening to WWDC AM-1260 where I first discovered pop music. Here are the Top 5 hits from coast-to-coast on my 4TH birthday:

1. “Brown Sugar” – The Rolling Stones
2. “Joy To The World” – Three Dog Night
3. “Want Ads” – The Honey Cone
4. “It Don’t Come Easy” – Ringo Starr
5. “Rainy Days And Mondays” – The Carpenters

I loved Three Dog Night growing up as a little kid, and I still love them today. “Joy To The World” is actually in heavy rotation today on my iTunes Library and iPod Shuffles. It’s one of the greatest hits of my life. Here’s Three Dog Night performing at the cocktail party on the Monday November 29TH 1971 episode of “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” – one of my favorite TV shows back in the day: