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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 1996

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 14, 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 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 25 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 12TH 1996:

“The World I Know” – Collective Soul
“Name” – Goo Goo Dolls
“Follow You Down” – Gin Blossoms
“Ooh Boy” – Real McCoy
“Take Your Chance” – Fun Factory

Collective Soul, Goo Goo Dolls, and Gin Blossoms: Who are 3 cool light-rock bands who enjoyed their greatest mainstream Top 40 success during the mid-1990s ?

Collective Soul formed during the early-1990s, and Goo Goo Dolls and Gin Blossoms formed during the mid-1980s. All 3 bands are still together today – performing and touring. Aside from a brief hiatus during the late-1990s for Gin Blossoms all 3 bands have been continuously active since the beginning. Goo Goo Dolls celebrate their 35TH anniversary this year !

All 3 bands had a lot of great songs during their heyday, but if I had to pick a fave from each of them then it would have to be Collective Soul’s “The World I Know”, Goo Goo Dolls’ “Name”, and Gin Blossoms’ “Hey Jealousy” (from my wild and crazy Summer of 1993).

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 30 years ago to May 1991.

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 1996, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 221

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 10, 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 MAY 09TH 2021	WEEK 221

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	16	Fires [3RD week @ # 1]	Jordan St. Cyr
2	3	7	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
3	6	9	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
4	2	5	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
5	5	8	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
6	4	12	Good God Almighty	Crowder
7	7	24	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
8	–	1	Yes He Can	Cain
9	8	5	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
10	10	3	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Almost Home” – MercyMe
2019 – “Alive” – Big Daddy Weave
2018 – “The Way (New Horizon)” – Pat Barrett
2017 – “Forgiven” – Crowder

#Surprise. Jordan St. Cyr is still at # 1 with “Fires”. We The Kingdom are back up a notch to # 2 with perhaps my next # 1 smash. Or could it be the latest from TobyMac – whose “Help Is On The Way” is now his highest-charting hit in over 3 years (since “I Just Need U.”). It’s his 8TH hit since this chart was resurrected in 2017, and it’s his 11TH hit overall since 2007. If we go back even further to 1996 we can include dc Talk’s hit – “Between You And Me” – since Toby was one-third of the band.

My Pastor’s sermon yesterday morning was titled “Help Is On The Way”, and it continued his message series on how great and glorious our God is. All throughout his sermon our Pastor would return to the title of his sermon, and I couldn’t help but hum the TobyMac song “Help Is On The Way”. I actually made note of it after his sermon when I took over to close the service, but I don’t think a single one of my brothers and sisters was familiar with the current hit on the radio.

Here’s the official music video for that current TobyMac hit on the radio – now with nearly 3.8 million views on YouTube:

This blog is # 52 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.

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 – 2006

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 7, 2021

It’s the 1ST Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday May 07TH 2006:

“Let U Go” – Ashley Parker Angel
“Move Along” – The All-American Rejects
“Dirty Little Secret” – The All-American Rejects
“Pump It” – The Black Eyed Peas
“Beep” – The Pussycat Dolls Ft. WILL.I.AM

Well one of those songs is still a hit with me exactly 15 years later, and that’s “Dirty Little Secret”. It’s in heavy rotation on my iPod Shuffles that play at my desk at my workplace. It was actually my # 2 hit of all of 2006. I was about 3½ months away from the start of God’s salvation on my life. You’ll see my Top 5 “look-back” at 2006 suddenly flip to Christian rock and pop this September.

Exactly 15 years ago I ran a web site known as MASSIVESMASH.COM. It was in the middle of its 11TH year online at the time. It hosted my Top 25 weekly chart – known back then as the “Pure.Hits.Chart”. Here’s how I explained my chart just below my Top 25 that week in which “Let U Go” was at # 1:

The Pure.Hits.Chart is not based on actual raw data or statistics, but rather an intricate fusion of trends, indicatours, and factours to include retail and online activity, television, radio, street, and entertainment venue impressions, and other vital independent research. Based out of Homestead Florida U.S.A. its origins date back to November 1985. It was one of the very first weekly hit music charts (private, corporate, or otherwise) to ever publish on the World Wide Web (in November 1995). Today it is one of the most accessed and utilized privately-owned hit music charts on the web. It is consistently monitored and reviewed by numerous influential International chart compilation sites and hit music enthusiasts on the web. It is influential worldwide as commercial hit music radio station program directors, college and university radio station deejays, nightclub personalities, hit music fans, and the industry in general monitor the chart on a regular basis to determine what is currently hot, what is gaining steam, and what is cooling off. Up-and-coming hit music artists and their respective agents, producers, and labels search for their songs on the web, and they often find them right here on our chart. Positive feedback generated from all of these various sources and industries fuels the chart, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Feel free to write us at anytime !

That’s right – my web site was HUGE back then, and then it faded into obscurity.

Next Friday on RETRO I’ll go back 25 years ago to May 1996.

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 2006, Music, Radio

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 220

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date May 3, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY MAY 02ND 2021	WEEK 220

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	Fires [2ND week @ # 1]	Jordan St. Cyr
2	4	4	God Of Revival	Brian & Jenn Johnson
3	3	6	Child Of Love	We The Kingdom Ft. Bear Rinehart
4	2	11	Good God Almighty	Crowder
5	7	7	God Who Listens	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett
6	5	8	Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)	TobyMac
7	6	23	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
8	8	4	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
9	9	4	No Hopeless Soul	Stephen Stanley
10	10	2	Mean Girls	Leanna Crawford

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

Jordan St. Cyr hangs-on at # 1 with “Fires”. It’s currently a Top 10 hit at U.S. Christian Radio from coast-to-coast. I love the overall feel of the track. It’s quite catchy. I can still hum to it and sing to it hours after last hearing it on the radio. I especially love the bridge:

♫ I can face anything
‘Cause You’re here with me
I can do all things
‘Cause You strengthen me ♫

It was actually a very close call between # 1 and # 2. I actually had Brian & Jenn Johnson’s “God Of Revival” listed as the new # 1 smash earlier in the week, but then I slipped it down to # 2. (Some “behind-the-scenes” information for you: My chart is active as a “living document” all week long. My Top 10 hits sometimes move up and down the chart during the week, but it’s where they land by Sunday evening that ultimately counts. Sometimes a song will enter my chart during the week, but by Sunday evening it’s off again.)

BUBBLING UNDER just outside my Top 10 this week is the new track from Cain. It’s their follow-up to “Rise Up (Lazarus)” which was my # 4 hit of all of 2020. I heard “Yes He Can” on the radio for the first time last Monday, and I instantly loved it. Once I looked it up to see who sang it I was delighted to find out that it was Cain. It’s already exploding at U.S. Christian Radio where it registers the “most increased plays” this week. It should enter my chart next week, and at this point I’m already thinking that it could be a # 1 smash this Summer.

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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.