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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 5, 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 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 05TH 2006:

“Gravity” – The Fold
“Activate” – Stellar Kart
“Up Above” – High Flight Society
“In Such A State” – Edison Glass
“Waste Of Time” – FM Static

11 weeks into my salvation – before I even found and joined a church family – I was rockin’ to God and His music via my local independent Christian rock radio station – “The Call”.

Hearing these songs 15 years later gives me goosebumps. It brings me back to that euphoric time when I was a baby again – at the age of 39.

My # 1 smash 15 years ago was from The Fold – a band that is still around today after nearly 20 years. In 2006 they released their debut album – “This Too Shall Pass”. Its opening track was “Gravity”. It was their 1ST of 5 hits on my chart over the next 3 years.

I like the chorus of “Gravity”:

♫ Just like gravity – what draws You to me
Someone I didn’t know I needed
It’s like gravity – it’s stronger than me
I need You here ♫

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to November 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, Salvation

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 246

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

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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 31ST 2021	WEEK 246

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	5	Promised Land [1ST week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	1	16	What If	Matthew West
3	–	1	On Our Way	MercyMe Ft. Sam Wesley
4	4	3	When You Speak	Jeremy Camp
5	5	3	My God Is Still The Same	Sanctus Real
6	10	4	Come What May	We Are Messengers
7	–	1	In The House	Crowder
8	6	10	Promises	Maverick City Music
9	–	1	Look What You’ve Done	Tasha Layton
10	–	1	Even At My Worst	Blanca

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

4 NEW ENTRIES – I typically average a single new entry per week, so whenever there are more than that it’s a special week of chart action. This week is spectacular with 4 new entries. MercyMe enter straight-in at # 3 with their 6TH hit – a song I got to dance to recently with my Tampa brothers and sisters in Christ LIVE in concert. “On Our Way” appears to be headed on its way to # 1. Also new this week is Crowder’s 7TH hit, Tasha Layton’s 2ND hit, and Blanca’s debut hit.

This blog is # 34 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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, Chart, Christ, Christian, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, WGTS

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1976

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 29, 2021

It’s the 5TH Friday of the month, so it’s a special, as I go back 45 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday October 31ST 1976:

“If You Leave Me Now” – Chicago
“Disco Duck” – Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots
“Rock’n Me” – Steve Miller Band
“The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald” – Gordon Lightfoot
“A Fifth Of Beethoven” – Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band

There it is – the surprise # 1 smash on the Billboard Hot 100 from 45 years ago. It spent a month at # 2 after its single week at # 1. It was also a Top 10 smash all across Europe and “down-under” in Australia and New Zealand.

When I was a teenager during the early-1980s I wanted to be a Top 40 deejay when I grew up. I wanted to be like Casey Kasem and Rick Dees, or even Dick Clark. I also wanted to be a Meteorologist. Then I figured that I could be a radio deejay who gave weather updates 3 or 4 times per hour. Neither one of those childhood dreams came true; although, as a blogger here I am in the weekly hit music chart business, and I occasionally write about the weather. So there’s that. #LivingTheDream

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 15 years ago to November 2006.

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 1976, Music, Radio, Top 40

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 245

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 25, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 24TH 2021	WEEK 245

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	What If [4TH week @ # 1]	Matthew West
2	2	4	Promised Land	TobyMac
3	3	13	House Of The Lord	Phil Wickham
4	6	2	When You Speak	Jeremy Camp
5	7	2	My God Is Still The Same	Sanctus Real
6	4	9	Promises	Maverick City Music
7	5	11	Thank You Lord	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
8	8	5	Relate	for King & Country
9	9	4	Stand In Faith	Danny Gokey
10	10	3	Come What May	We Are Messengers

MATTHEW WEST – Yesterday on #SundayScripture I revealed that I saw him LIVE in concert in Southwest Florida this past Friday night. He opened for Casting Crowns; although, he is worthy of being a headlining act on his own with a catalog of nearly 20 years of hits. I’ve only known him as a singer for the past 245 weeks, but he’s done amazing over these past 4 years and 8 months. “What If” is his 6TH hit, and 4TH # 1 smash. (His other 2 hits peaked at # 2.) This is his 124TH week on my chart – and 19TH week at # 1. I got to sing and dance (at my floor seat) to “What If” as Matthew sang it LIVE as the 3RD hit of his set.

CHART BUSTING just outside of my Top 10 this week is the new one from MercyMe. It’s “On Our Way”, and it was intended for Sam Wesley, as he cowrote it. But his dad – Bart Millard – loved it so much that he wanted it to be a MercyMe song. So he let Sam sing on the song and receive credit (and compensation) for doing so. Now it’s a Christian Top 20 hit from coast to coast, and it feels so good with its uplifting sound. Sam performed it with his dad and the MercyMe band LIVE in concert, and our Tampa audience was dancing along.

This blog is # 36 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites in 2021 chart. Thank You for including us Feedspot !

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.