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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1986

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 25, 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 4TH Friday of the month, so I go back 35 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 29TH 1986:

“Edge Of Heaven” – Wham!
“New Beginning” – Bucks Fizz
“Sun Street” – Katrina And The Waves
“Nasty” – Janet Jackson
“Mountains” – Prince And The Revolution

I estimate that I’ve attended over 150 concerts in my entire lifetime. I attended 17 during a less-than-17-month stretch over in England in 1986 and 1987 when I lived there. I’ve attended at least 88 since 2000. I have no record-keeping of my concerts and other live events from 1988 to 1999, but I estimate about 4 per year.

I came of age into the concert scene 3 weeks after turning 19. My very first concert – the final Wham! concert at Wembley Stadium in London England. It was an 8-hour Saturday event. Gates opened at 2 PM, and the show started about 2 hours later with a few opening acts and special guests making appearances. It was a hot and steamy late-June afternoon and evening in a packed stadium in London, and I was a singing and dancing (and sweating) maniac during the entire show from start to finish.

After the show was done and over with, and me and my concert buddy were heading home on the M4 I asked him “What’s our next concert, and when is it ?”

(The eventual answer was “The Art Of Noise” on August 15TH 1986.)

Reaching # 2 on my chart exactly 35 years ago was the lavishly-produced HI-NRG “New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)” from Bucks Fizz. Despite its more European (continental) sound it was only a hit in their native United Kingdom and nearby Ireland, Belgium, and The Netherlands.

Here’s the music video for “New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)”. To my Christian brothers and sisters of today this is a “feel good” positive and encouraging song that speaks of hope and love in a new world. There is a gospel choir performing back-up vocals. Feel free to get up and dance !

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 1986, BBC, British, England, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 227

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 21, 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 JUNE 20TH 2021	WEEK 227

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	2	7	Yes He Can [1ST week @ # 1]	Cain
2	1	15	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
3	4	22	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
4	3	4	When We Fall Apart	Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
5	6	3	Under Grace	Tauren Wells Ft. Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts
6	7	4	Be Alright	Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
7	8	11	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
8	9	13	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
9	10	2	Rattle !	Elevation Worship
10	–	1	Believe For It	CeCe Winans

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Church (Take Me Back)” – Cochren & Co.
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Home” – Chris Tomlin

Cain ascends to # 1 this week with their 2ND consecutive chart-topper – “Yes He Can”. It’s my 61ST # 1 smash of this current era of the past 227 weeks. It’s their follow-up to their debut smash – and winner of the K-LOVE Fan Award for “Breakout Single” – “Rise Up (Lazarus)”. That was my 53RD # 1 smash last October.

Here’s the official music video for “Yes He Can”:

Further down my chart this week “Fires” by Jordan St. Cyr is the sleeper smash of 2021 and possibly the eventual # 1 smash of the entire year. It debuted quietly back in late-January, and it spent its first 5 weeks at # 8 or below. Since then it’s spent 3 weeks at # 1, 4 weeks at # 2, and 6 weeks at # 3.

CeCe Winans enters my chart for the very first time with her current radio hit “Believe For It”. It’s approaching the Top 10 nationally at U.S. Christian radio. It’s the title track of her first LIVE album – released this past March.

This blog is # 43 worldwide on the Top 60 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, Christian, KLOVE, Music, Radio

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 18, 2021

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday June 16TH 1991:

“Unbelievable” – EMF
“I Touch Myself” – The Divinyls
“Here We Go (Let’s Rock & Roll)” – C + C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams & Zelma Davis
“Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” – C + C Music Factory Ft. Freedom Williams
“Joyride” – Roxette

EMF topped my chart 30 years ago this weekend with their unique HI-NRG pop-dance track “Unbelievable”. It was a worldwide smash, and a # 1 smash here in the U.S. It was near the start of a long 10-week summertime run at # 1 on my chart.

EMF were formed in 1989 in Cinderford – about 40 miles west of where I lived for 2 years (1985-1987) near Fairford. Both towns are in Gloucestershire in the South West of England. I haven’t been back to England since I left 33½ years ago. I hope to make it back sometime in the future.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to June 1986 – when I lived in Gloucestershire. I attended my very first concert ever back then in London England. I’ll share that experience with you next week.

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 1991, EMF, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 226

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date June 15, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY JUNE 13TH 2021	WEEK 226

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	14	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) [5TH week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	2	6	Yes He Can	Cain
3	4	3	When We Fall Apart	Ryan Stevenson Ft. Vince Gill & Amy Grant
4	3	21	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
5	5	13	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
6	9	2	Under Grace	Tauren Wells Ft. Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts
7	8	3	Be Alright	Evan Craft X Danny Gokey X Redimi2
8	6	10	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
9	7	12	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
10	–	1	Rattle !	Elevation Worship

Due to my special blog post yesterday commemorating Flag Day here in the U.S.A. my Top 10 hits is presented to you today on this Tuesday.

Matthew West mentioned this on the recent K-LOVE Fan Awards: Country music stars are suddenly in abundance on Christian radio. With Dolly Parton and Lady A last summer, and Vince Gill, Thomas Rhett, and Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts this week – Country music stars are praising and worshiping God alongside established Christian music artists. It all makes sense. Traditional Country music has been rooted in the Gospel since the very beginning. Today’s Christian music sounds very Country. (Think Cain’s “Rise Up (Lazarus)” and “Yes He Can” and Rhett Walker’s “Gospel Song”. Even Crowder’s “Good God Almighty”.)

I really love the sound and feel of Ryan Stevenson’s collaboration with Vince Gill and his wife Amy Grant. Vince sounds amazing in the song, and the short duet portion between Amy and Ryan is wonderful (and not long enough). Every time I hear that song on the radio I turn-up the volume and listen intently to it.

Here’s the official lyric video for “When We Fall Apart”:

This blog is # 43 worldwide on the Top 60 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.