Tag: Radio

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday January 03RD 2021:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	6	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	3	13	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
3	2	8	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
4	5	8	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
5	4	19	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
6	6	4	Man Of Your Word	Maverick City Music
7	7	7	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells
8	8	6	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
9	9	6	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	10	2	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Holy Water” – We The Kingdom 
2019 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2018 – “Lions” – Skillet

2021 starts pretty much the same way 2020 ended. There’s some good new music coming out that I’m hoping generates enough radio airplay to make it onto my chart. I’m especially interested in the new Cochren & Co. song “Who Can”, as well as Natalie Grant’s “Face To Face”. Phil Wickham is trending with his new one “Battle Belongs”. Look for my chart to heat-up in the next few weeks.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2021 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

59 hits created 52 weeks of Top 10 Christian hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. Here it is – my Top 20 hits of 2020:

RK	PK	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	22	Almost Home	MercyMe
2	1	26	I Will Fear No More	The Afters
3	2	25	Alive & Breathing	Matt Maher
4	1	18	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	1	20	No Impossible With You	I AM THEY
6	1	20	Keep Me In The Moment	Jeremy Camp
7	1	19	The God Who Stays	Matthew West
8	1	14	No Hold On Me	Matty Mullins
9	1	15	God So Loved	We The Kingdom
10	2	18	Your Name Is Power	Rend Collective
11	1	12	Rescue Story	Zach Williams
12	3	14	This Is What We Live For	Big Daddy Weave
13	1	12	Jericho	Andrew Ripp
14	2	14	The Father’s House	Cory Asbury
15	2	11	Amadeo (Still My God)	Ryan Stevenson
16	3	16	Waymaker	Michael W. Smith Ft. Vanessa Campagna
17	3	12	See A Victory	Elevation Worship
18	3	12	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
19	1	9	Miracles	Colton Dixon
20	1	11	There Was Jesus	Zach Williams Ft. Dolly Parton

# 1 For The Year In:
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West 
2018 – “Do It Again” – Elevation Worship
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

What a great year for positive and encouraging music that tells the story of God. What a great chart to represent His music. What a unique year that 2020 was – a year like no other. 

My # 2 artist of the past 202 weeks – MercyMe – scored my # 1 smash of 2020 with “Almost Home” – a song that spent 12 consecutive weeks at # 1 from late-February to early-May. MercyMe return to my year-end chart after no-showing in 2019. (“Even If” was my # 2 hit of 2017, and “Grace Got You” was my # 2 hit of 2018.)

My # 1 artist of the past 202 weeks – Matthew West – makes it 4 years in a row on my year-end chart, and this year he places 2 songs on it including the still-climbing “Truth Be Told” which is now at # 3 for the week. There’s a good chance that it could compete for # 1 next week.

My # 2 hit of 2020 – The Afters’ “I Will Fear No More” – was my longest-running hit of the year at 26 weeks – from late-January to mid-July. It was quite the timely song to hear during the peak of the pandemic.

Elevation Worship have now placed a song on my year-end chart for the past 3 years in a row.

Unspoken’s “You’ve Always Been” missed out on my year-end chart by just 2 chart points. It’s officially my # 21 hit of 2020.

My Top 20 Of 2020 chart was compiled by awarding 10 points for each week at # 1, 9 points for # 2, and so forth and so on down to 1 point for # 10. The points are then added, and the hits are ranked.

There were 14 # 1 hits in 2020, and 2 of them failed to make my Top 20 – “Holy Water” (We The Kingdom) and “Every Step Of The Way” (Cade Thompson). They were my first and last # 1 hits of the year respectively.

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.

All rights reserved (c) 2020 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries

Every Monday I post my all-new Top 10 Christian hit music chart based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay. It’s the continuation of a weekly hobby that goes back 40+ years. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 27TH 2020:

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	5	Every Step Of The Way	Cade Thompson
2	2	7	Image Of God	We Are Messengers
3	4	12	Truth Be Told	Matthew West
4	3	18	Rise Up (Lazarus)	Cain
5	5	7	Out Of My Hands	Jeremy Camp
6	7	3	Man Of Your Word	Maverick City Music
7	8	6	Famous For (I Believe)	Tauren Wells
8	9	5	Sparrows	Cory Asbury
9	10	5	Wake Up Sleeper	Austin French
10	–	1	Another In The Fire	Hillsong United

# 1 This Week In:
2019 – “Unstoppable God” – Sanctus Real 
2018 – “Well Done” – The Afters
2017 – “Lions” – Skillet

And there you have it – my final Top 10 of 2020. It’s another slow chart week with minimal movements up and down.

Hillsong United is back with their 5TH hit since 2017. A live worship version of “Another In The Fire” was recorded late in 2018, and the studio version was recorded later in 2019. It was released as a single about 7 months ago, and now it’s an emerging radio hit for 2021.

This is not the end of the weekend here at #CountUp. I’ll have a special Tuesday blog post tomorrow, as I present my Top 20 hits of 2020. 2 of my Top 10 hits above are on my Top 20 chart. (Spoiler Alert:  They are logically my longest-running hits right now.)

All rights reserved (c) 2020 Christopher M. Day, CountUp Ministries