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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2007

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 4, 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 March 04TH 2007:

“Made To Love” – TobyMac
“Word Of Mouth” – John Reuben
“Nostalgiatopia” – Eleventyseven
“Morning Air” – The Wedding
“Live Like We’re Alive” – Nevertheless

In February 2007 I discovered TobyMac. His debut smash – “Made To Love” – was playing on the radio around the clock, and I was loving its sound and meaning. It spent 5 weeks at # 1 on my chart at the time, and it finished 2007 as my # 2 hit of the entire year. (John Reuben’s “Word Of Mouth” was # 1 for the year.)

Toby charted 3 times during the “Salvation Era” of my chart – with “Made To Love”, “Boomin'”, and “City On Our Knees”.

And then I walked away from Christian music on the radio and ended my weekly hit music chart after 14+ consecutive years (1995-2010).

7 years later in February 2017 a TobyMac concert in Tallahassee and the discovery of K-LOVE on the airwaves in South Florida resurrected my chart, and Toby scored my first # 1 smash of the new era with “Love Broke Through”.

I’ve been to 4 TobyMac concerts over the past 12 years, and each one of them was an extra special event on my fantastic journey. Toby needs to get back down here to South Florida so that I can sing and dance to our God again with Toby’s inspiring music, lyrics, and energy.

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 25 years ago to March 1997. It’s when two guys from Australia scored a # 1 smash with their very first single.

This is the end of an abbreviated blog weekend, as #SundayScripture and #Top10Monday are on hiatus this weekend. They will both return next weekend. In fact a full weekend of blogging returns next weekend – with 4 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I don’t blog on Saturdays. That’s my day of rest.

Tags 2007, Music, Radio, Salvation

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 263

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 28, 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 40+ years. Here’s this week’s chart:

#TOP10MONDAY	WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27TH 2022	WEEK 263

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	12	Jesus Is Coming Back [1ST week @ # 1]	Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
2	1	16	Weary Traveler	Jordan St. Cyr
3	4	5	Brighter Days	Blessing Offor
4	5	5	See Me Through It	Brandon Heath
5	6	5	Holy Spirit Come	Patrick Mayberry
6	3	21	Come What May	We Are Messengers
7	9	3	Sunday Sermons	Anne Wilson
8	10	2	In Jesus Name (God Of Possible)	Katy Nichole
9	8	9	Walking Free	Micah Tyler
10	–	4	Too Good To Not Believe	Brandon Lake Ft. Jenn Johnson

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Say I Won’t” – MercyMe
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

FROM ONE JORDAN TO ANOTHER – After an impressive 10-week run at # 1 “Weary Traveler” from Jordan St. Cyr slips a notch to # 2. My new # 1 smash is the 2021 remix of “Jesus Is Coming Back” from Jordan Feliz with Mandisa and Jonathan Traylor. It’s Jordan’s 6TH hit on my chart, and it’s his first # 1 smash. Back on Week 4 of my chart Jordan debuted with “Beloved”. It was part of the soundtrack of the resurrection of my chart 5 years ago. Jordan has appeared on my chart every year from 2017 to 2022. Mandisa is a featured artist on the track, and it’s also her 6TH hit on my chart – and her first # 1 smash.

♫ And when the world gets complicated
Gonna keep on celebrating – ‘cause we know
Jesus is coming back. Jesus is coming back. ♫

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

This concludes another weekend of blog posts. I’ll do it again this upcoming weekend, but as an abbreviated weekend – with 2 new entries on Thursday and Friday. #Top10Monday will be offline next week – returning in 2 weeks on Monday March 14TH 2022.

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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, God, Jesus, KLOVE, Music, Radio, WGTS

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1987

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 25, 2022

It’s the 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday March 01ST 1987:

“Live It Up” – Mental As Anything
“I Get The Sweetest Feeling” – Jackie Wilson
“Skin Trade” – Duran Duran
“Coming Around Again” – Carly Simon

Last week on #RetroFriday I hinted at a long-running Australian band who scored a # 1 smash on my chart that is one of my favorite songs of all-time that I still hear nearly every day on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. And I sing along to it every day. And I’ve probably played it more times than any other American, as it’s a virtual unknown song here in the U.S.A.

That would be Mental As Anything’s “Live It Up” – their biggest hit ever. It was an International pop smash in Australia / New Zealand and Europe – reaching # 3 on the U.K. pop chart. I absolutely love this song 35 years later. It still sounds as fresh as it did back in 1987 when I was a late-teenager (not quite 20 yet) living it up in England.

Here’s the band from their iconic Thursday February 26TH 1987 LIVE performance on BBC-1’s “Top Of The Pops”:

Next #RetroFriday I’ll go back 15 years ago to March 2007. It’s when a guy from my former hometown scored his first # 1 smash on my chart. His second # 1 smash would come 10 years later and help resurrect my weekly hit music chart after a 7-year hiatus.

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, BBC, British, England, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 262

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date February 21, 2022

#TOP10MONDAY	WEEK ENDING – SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20TH 2022	WEEK 262

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	Weary Traveler [10TH week @ # 1]	Jordan St. Cyr
2	2	11	Jesus Is Coming Back	Jordan Feliz Ft. Mandisa & Jonathan Traylor
3	4	20	Come What May	We Are Messengers
4	7	4	Brighter Days	Blessing Offor
5	5	4	See Me Through It	Brandon Heath
6	6	4	Holy Spirit Come	Patrick Mayberry
7	3	7	River Of Life	Mac Powell
8	8	8	Walking Free	Micah Tyler
9	10	2	Sunday Sermons	Anne Wilson
10	–	1	In Jesus Name (God Of Possible)	Katy Nichole

# 1 This Week In:
2021 – “Every Step Of The Way” – Cade Thompson
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Maybe It’s OK” – We Are Messengers
2018 – “Gracefully Broken” – Matt Redman Ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard
2017 – “Love Broke Thru” – TobyMac

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY TO K-LOVE ! – It’s Presidents’ Day here in the U.S.A. – a federal holiday where we honor George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and all of our U.S. Presidents past and present. For me Presidents’ Day holds a special meaning. It was on this holiday in 2017 that I discovered the existence of K-LOVE. I was on a 7-day road-trip vacation up to the Florida Panhandle and back, and I was listening to some great Christian pop music on various radio stations along the way. I was praying for such a radio station in South Florida that I could listen to back home. After doing just a little bit of research online in my hotel room in Bartow Florida on the final night of my road-trip I realized that such a radio station already existed in South Florida. In fact it was broadcasting at 100,000 watts from a longtime 1,000-foot transmitter that I could actually see from my neighborhood 5 miles away. I began picking-up K-LOVE from over 100 miles away on my drive home the day after Presidents’ Day. I’ve been listening ever since. My personal hit music chart was resurrected that weekend after a 7-year hiatus. God gave me K-LOVE 10½ years into my salvation, and my fantastic journey was rejuvenated.

This blog is # 36 worldwide on the Top 80 Christian Music Blogs and Websites 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.

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.