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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1986

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 28, 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 01ST 1986:

“Spirit In The Sky” – Doctor And The Medics
“Snooker Loopy” – Matchroom Mob With Chas & Dave
“My Favourite Waste Of Time” – Owen Paul
“Addicted To Love” – Robert Palmer
“Quiet Life” – Ray Davies

What a quirky pop chart that was !

Let me write about the quirkiest of the 5. That would clearly be “Snooker Loopy” – the surprise novelty smash that invaded and shocked the British pop charts to the point that BBC Radio 1 didn’t know what to do with it. The national Top 40 station didn’t play it much at all aside from when they revealed and counted-down the new Top 40 chart each week.

It debuted at # 98 on the BBC-Gallup chart. It climbed 19 notches in its 2ND week to # 79. Then it climbed another 21 notches in its 3RD week to # 58. Then it entered the Top 40 (gasp) in its 4TH week at # 37. 2 days later Chas & Dave performed the song LIVE on the Thursday May 08TH 1986 edition of “Top Of The Pops” (hosted by John Peel and Janice Long). (Chas & Dave actually lip-synched it with the accompanying music video.) They did a great job with it, and the United Kingdom was impressed. They went out and bought the single at the record stores that weekend. It climbed another 26 notches in its 5TH week to # 11. The following week it reached # 6 – where it peaked – entirely on retail sales.

Here’s that “Top Of The Pops” performance that inspired a nation to buy a single – and hang out at their local village pub to play snooker – or at least sing-along to its newfound anthem:

♫ Snooker loopy nuts are we
Me and him and them and me
We’ll show you what we can do
With a load of balls and a snooker cue
Pot the reds then screw it back
For the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black
Snooker loopy nuts are we
We’re all snooker loopy ♫

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with 3 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 223

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 MAY 23RD 2021	WEEK 223

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	11	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) [2ND week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	3	10	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
3	2	18	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
4	6	3	Yes He Can	Cain
5	5	7	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
6	4	9	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
7	7	14	Good God Almighty	Crowder
8	8	26	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
9	9	7	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
10	10	5	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Born Again” – Austin French
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Live Like You’re Loved” – Hawk Nelson

TobyMac spends a 2ND week at # 1 with his smash “Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)”. It’s also Top 5 nationwide at U.S. Christian radio (large market) – and just outside of the Top 5 (small market). I expect it to be Top 3 next week at both.

BUBBLING UNDER – Ryan Stevenson‘s latest “When We Fall Apart” is starting to receive moderate airplay on K-LOVE. It’s sitting just outside of my Top 10, and it could enter with next week’s chart. It would be his 6TH hit on my chart during this current era.

This weekend’s chart is normally the first chart of summer, but this year Memorial Day is as late as it can possibly be on the calendar – May 31ST. Last year it was as early as it can possibly be – May 25TH. (It’s always the last Monday of May.) Here in the U.S. it’s unofficially the start of summer.

Every summer here at #CountUp I celebrate the hottest hits of the hottest time of the year – from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend. On the Tuesday after Labor Day in September I’ll present my Top 10 hits of the 15 weeks of summer.

This blog is # 48 worldwide on the Top 90 Christian Music Blogs, Websites, & Influencers 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 5 new entries on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and a special post on Tuesday June 01ST (my next music chart). 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.

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1991

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 21, 2021

It’s the 3RD Friday of the month, so I go back 30 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 19TH 1991:

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

30 years ago this weekend I compiled and published my 302ND hit music chart. That was during the original mainstream Top 40 era of my chart that ran from November 1985 to November 1992.

At # 11 on my chart that week was the debut smash from Michael W. Smith. His “Place In This World” was steadily climbing and getting ready to enter my Top 10. Amy Grant cowrote it with Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Michael W. Smith holds the distinction of having the longest span of any artist on my chart from first hit to last hit – 29 years. His “Waymaker” last year was a Top 3 hit.

Here’s the official music video of his first hit – “Place In This World”:

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 35 years ago to May 1986.

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 !

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 222

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 17, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MAY 16TH 2021	WEEK 222

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	3	10	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) [1ST week @ # 1]	TobyMac
2	1	17	Fires	Jordan St. Cyr
3	5	9	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
4	2	8	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
5	4	6	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
6	8	2	Yes He Can	Cain
7	6	13	Good God Almighty	Crowder
8	7	25	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
9	9	6	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
10	10	4	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “I Will Fear No More” – The Afters
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Oh My Soul” – Casting Crowns

Kevin Michael McKeehan AKA Toby McKeehan AKA TobyMac climbs to the top of my chart with “Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)”. It’s his first # 1 smash on my chart since my very first chart during this current era that began 221 weeks ago. That was “Love Broke Thru” that topped the return of my chart after a 7-year hiatus in February 2017. Toby’s first # 1 smash was exactly a decade before that in February 2007 – “Made To Love”.

Moving up 2 notches to # 3 this week is the latest from Chris Tomlin from his album of inspirational songs with some of his friends. “God Who Listens” is his collaboration with country music star Thomas Rhett. It returns Chris back into the Top 3 for the first time in nearly 2 years. His first 4 hits on my chart peaked at either # 1 or # 2 or # 3, but his last hit – “Who You Are To Me” (with Lady A) – stalled-out after 3 weeks at # 10.

Here’s the official lyric video for “God Who Listens”:

This blog is # 49 worldwide on the Top 90 Christian Music Blogs, Websites, & Influencers 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.

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.