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My Top 10 Hits – Week 196

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 16, 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 November 15TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
2	2	7	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
3	3	12	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
4	4	11	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
5	5	14	God So Loved	We The Kingdom
6	10	2	Graves Into Gardens	Elevation Worship
7	9	2	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells Ft. Jenn Johnson
8	6	6	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
9	–	1	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
10	–	1	Image Of God	We Are Messengers

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Different” – Micah Tyler

My Top 5 holds steady this week with a # 1 smash from Matty Mullins, a likely future # 1 smash from Andrew Ripp, and a former # 1 smash from Cain. It’s the first hit on my chart for all 3 artists. And then there’s Big Daddy Weave with an energetic track that should’ve been a # 1 smash, and it’s not too late to make that move. Finally – We The Kingdom are still at # 5 with their former # 1 smash that spent 5 weeks atop my chart.

Jeremy Camp is back with his 5TH hit on my chart since 2017 (6TH overall). 3 out of his last 4 hits have gone to # 1. In this one Jeremy proclaims that he will let the weight of his fear fall like sand – out of his hands and into Yours Lord.

Ireland’s We Are Messengers return with their 6TH hit on my chart, and I really liked this one as soon as I heard it for the first time. I hope that it continues to generate increased airplay on the radio. I’m looking forward to singing it out loud at the TobyMac show coming-up in 3 months.

It’s an exciting time to listen to Christian pop radio with so many strong songs with powerful lyrics praising and worshiping our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ. Sing along to the music. Pay attention to the lyrics. God’s Good News is revealed in His music.

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

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1995

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 13, 2020

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 November 12TH 1995:

“Til I Hear It From You” – Gin Blossoms
“Get Together” – Big Mountain
“Come And Get Your Love” – Real McCoy
“Back For Good” – Take That
“Forever Tonight” – Peter Cetera & Crystal Bernard

A new season of my weekly RETRO feature continues, and this week I debut a brand new look back at 25 years ago. After a 3-year hiatus my weekly hit music chart came back to life in a big way at the end of October of 1995. It would be the start of a run that would last over 14 years. It would also mark the start of the online era of my chart where I got to share it with the whole world via my web site.

Gin Blossoms were one of my favorite pop-rock bands of the mid-1990s. “Hey Jealousy” and “Found Out About You” were fun songs to jam to in my cozy efficiency apartment in Melbourne Florida in 1993 into 1994. They were both big hits on 107.1-A1A – the Top 40 radio station back then (and now) along Florida’s Space Coast.

Back in Homestead (where I live today) “Til I Hear It From You” was the perfect pop song for late-1995 that was my first # 1 smash of the new post-grunge pop era.

And what can I say about Real McCoy. They were a hit-making machine back in the mid-1990s with no less than 7 big pop hits in a row on Top 40 radio in South Florida. They defined the Eurodance phenomenon during the 1990s !

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to November 1990.

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 1990, Music, Radio

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2005

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

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 06TH 2005:

“Don’t Lie” – The Black Eyed Peas
“Gold Digger” – Kanye West
“Wake Me Up When September Ends” – Green Day
“Photograph” – Nickelback
“Because Of You” – Kelly Clarkson

A new season of my weekly RETRO feature has begun, and I vow to no longer talk negative of 2005.

Check out Nickelback at # 4 with one of their biggest hits – “Photograph”. I loved Nickelback music on the radio back in the day. I thought they were so cool as a band. Nowadays they are mostly maligned by grumpy middle-aged men who used to like them. I’m not one to malign a band that produced 6 big hits on my chart from 2001 to 2006. They would’ve kept on going if it weren’t for the fact that I was saved by Christ in August of 2006, and I completely turned-off the secular music. Oh – Nickelback’s 6TH and final hit in 2006 ? – “Savin’ Me”.

I’ve got an interesting anniversary coming up. Later this month in 2005 I was given an XM Satellite Radio for #ThanksChristmasGiving (combined Thanksgiving / Christmas holiday for my family). I still have it, and I still listen to it today. It’s a countertop boombox-style radio with a detachable / extendable satellite antenna that sits on my windowsill facing southward. Back in 2005 I discovered what turned out to be their # 1 station – 20 On 20. It was a fast-paced all-request Top 20 station. It kind of rejuvenated my pop chart at the time.

So Happy 15TH Anniversary SiriusXM. I’ve been a loyal listener longer than anyone else I know.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to November 1995.

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

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1985

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 30, 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 5TH Friday of the month, so it’s a special. Back in 1985 I was an 18-year-old USAF Airman Basic living in a dorm at Chanute AFB near Rantoul Illinois. I was there for technical training related to my future job. During those last days of October of 1985 I was still there, but I shouldn’t have been. You see I was held-back. While my 3 classmates moved on to their next destination I was still there with my instructor. I failed the final exam (barely). I didn’t study hard enough for it. Perhaps I partied just a little bit too much during the days and nights leading-up to the final exam.

So my instructor summarized the material of the past 12 weeks, quizzed me on it over and over again, and prepared me to take the final exam again. I passed it on the redo, and I was soon on my way out of that dorm, off the base, and on the road in my 1980 Chevy Citation. I drove 700 miles eastward across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and into Northern Virginia (my home-of-record at the time).

These were the hottest hits in the land during that memorable 700-mile drive – exactly 35 years ago this weekend – for the week ending Sunday October 27TH 1985:

“Saving All My Love For You” – Whitney Houston
“Part-Time Lover” – Stevie Wonder
“Take On Me” – A-Ha
“Miami Vice Theme” – Jan Hammer
“Head Over Heels” – Tears For Fears

That was the longest solo road-trip of my life (up to that point). That was in my very first car that I didn’t get to keep long enough, as I would soon be on my way overseas to The United Kingdom. (That car would eventually be sold by my Dad.)

Big changes are coming to RETRO starting next Friday. I’ll be removing 20 years ago from the monthly rotation, and I’ll be adding 25 years ago and 35 years ago. My hit music chart began 35 years ago next month in England, and 25 years ago this month it was resurrected after a 3-year hiatus. The beginnings of both of these distinct eras are intriguing, and I’m looking forward to looking back at these music memories of my life.

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 !