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My Top 10 Hits – Week 273

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 9, 2022

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 nearly 45 years. Here’s this week’s chart – for the week ending Sunday May 08TH 2022 – the 273RD week of this current era that began on Presidents’ Day Weekend of 2017:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	7	Wonder Working [2ND week @ # 1]	All Creatures
2	2	15	See Me Through It	Brandon Heath
3	6	9	Egypt	Cory Asbury
4	3	7	Fill My Cup	Andrew Ripp
5	4	13	Sunday Sermons	Anne Wilson
6	5	15	Brighter Days	Blessing Offor
7	7	5	Desesperado	Evan Craft
8	8	8	Fake It	Tauren Wells
9	–	1	Honey In The Rock	Brooke Ligertwood Ft. Brandon Lake
10	–	1	Me On Your Mind	Matthew West

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Fires” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “What A Friend” – Matt Maher
2017 – “Forgiven” – Crowder

EGYPT – Cory Asbury’s 4TH hit on my chart is this week’s fastest climber – ascending from # 6 to # 3. I featured its music video in last week’s edition, and I played it for my church body as part of Praise & Worship yesterday morning. After the video played I briefly talked about it.

BROOKE – Brooke Fraser (maiden name) / Brooke Ligertwood (married name) is no stranger to my chart. She’s been on twice before – as the lead singer of Hillsong Worship. “What A Beautiful Name” entered my chart way back on Week 4. The following year (2018) “Who You Say I Am” spent 4 weeks at # 1. “Honey In The Rock” is her first solo hit on my chart, and I love its sound !

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 5 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, #Top10Monday, and a special #BonusTuesday post.

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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, Christian, Cory Asbury, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, WGTS

2000s Blogging Christian God Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2007

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 6, 2022

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 May 06TH 2007:

“Procrastinating” – Stellar Kart
“After The World” – Disciple
“Awakening” – Switchfoot
“I Love You To Death” – Family Force 5
“Face Down” – Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

What an interesting Top 5 chart from exactly 15 years ago. I can’t explain that Red Jumpsuit Apparatus song at # 5. Somehow it broke-through onto my Top 25 Christian pop chart back then, but I don’t remember how it did that.

Switchfoot straddled both the mainstream pop charts as well as the Christian pop charts back in the mid-2000s. Their “Awakening” was their 5TH hit single on my chart. Their first 3 hits – “Meant To Live”, “Dare You To Move”, and “Stars” – all occurred before I knew who God is. “Awakening” tells the story of being rescued by God while at rock bottom. I can relate.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 25 years ago to May 1997. It’s when a 3-minute house-dance mash-up of 17 previous dance hits climbed to the top of radio station playlists as one of the most-requested tracks of 1997. And it was brought to you by a nationwide cable sports network.

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 2007, Music, Radio, Salvation, Switchfoot

Blogging Christian God Ministry Music Radio

My Top 10 Hits – Week 272

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 2, 2022

#TOP10MONDAY	WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY MAY 01ST 2022	WEEK 272

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	6	Wonder Working [1ST week @ # 1]	All Creatures
2	1	14	See Me Through It	Brandon Heath
3	3	6	Fill My Cup	Andrew Ripp
4	5	12	Sunday Sermons	Anne Wilson
5	4	14	Brighter Days	Blessing Offor
6	6	8	Egypt	Cory Asbury
7	7	4	Desesperado	Evan Craft
8	8	7	Fake It	Tauren Wells
9	9	4	The Commission	Cain
10	10	3	The Healing	Blanca Ft. Dante Bowe

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Fires” – Jordan St. Cyr
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “Freedom Hymn” – Austin French
2017 – “Even If” – MercyMe

ALL CREATURES – Chris Cron (lead-singer) and Ben Thompson (producer) are the duo known as All Creatures, and their “[wonder working]” is my new # 1 smash – and the 73RD # 1 smash of the current era (over the past 272 weeks). If you’re keeping track (who is ?) then that’s a new # 1 smash every 3.726 weeks. We’ll see if “[wonder working] exceeds that average over the next 3 weeks.

EGYPT – Cory Asbury’s 4TH hit on my chart could be his biggest. “Egypt” follows-up “Reckless Love” (# 8 in 2018), “The Father’s House” (# 2 in 2020), and “Sparrows” (# 4 in 2021). “Egypt” is about salvation. “You stepped into my Egypt”. You rescued me. You saved me. You set me free.

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend – with 4 new entries – known as #TravelThursday, #RetroFriday, #SundayScripture, and #Top10Monday.

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, Christian, Cory Asbury, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, WGTS

1980s Blogging Music Radio

My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1987

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date April 29, 2022

It’s the 5TH Friday of the month, and usually I present a special on this Friday, but due to #GoodFriday 2 weeks ago #RetroFriday was preempted. So this week I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 03RD 1987:

“You’re So Strong” – Mental As Anything
“Meet El Presidente” – Duran Duran
“Can’t Be With You Tonight” – Judy Boucher
“Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” – Starship
“If You Let Me Stay” – Terence Trent D’arby

My favorite Australian band of all-time – Mental As Anything – scored their 2ND consecutive # 1 smash on my chart in 9 weeks in 1987. “You’re So Strong” followed-up “Live It Up” to the top of the pops. It was a remarkable achievement in that while “Live It Up” was a BBC Radio 1 smash (Top 3 on the U.K. pop charts) – “You’re So Strong” received very limited airplay for a week or two before it fizzled. Strangely – “You’re So Strong” was the only Mental As Anything song that made an impact stateside – as a hit on the U.S. Dance chart.

You know a lot of great bands, duos, and artists have come out of Australia, and I’ve liked a lot of their music. But Mental As Anything rises above all of them. I actually only know two of their songs. “Live It Up” is one of my favorite pop songs of the era while living for 2 years in the United Kingdom. 35 years later I still hear it almost every day via my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. For 3 minutes and 49 seconds it always brings me back to that time when I was a late-teenager (on the verge of my 20s) enjoying life in a foreign country with my best friends at the time. I actually don’t have “You’re So Strong” in my collection, but (as I wrote this) I went on iTunes and I added it to my wish list for purchase later. It’s another good song – peppy and faster than I remembered it during those couple of weeks that it played on the radio 35 years ago. It’ll be a good solid addition to my daily iPod Shuffle airplay.

By the way how about that Judy Boucher song – “Can’t Be With You Tonight”. Back in the mid-1980s Caribbean reggae music was very popular in the U.K. It was a common fixture on pop radio and the pop charts. It kind of served as unofficial promotion for the warm British territories of the Caribbean. I loved its feel on the radio. What a great memory that song was !

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 15 years ago to May 2007. It’s the week that Switchfoot had an “Awakening”.

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 1987, Music, Radio