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My Top 10 Hits – Week 245

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 25, 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 OCTOBER 24TH 2021	WEEK 245

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	15	What If [4TH week @ # 1]	Matthew West
2	2	4	Promised Land	TobyMac
3	3	13	House Of The Lord	Phil Wickham
4	6	2	When You Speak	Jeremy Camp
5	7	2	My God Is Still The Same	Sanctus Real
6	4	9	Promises	Maverick City Music
7	5	11	Thank You Lord	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
8	8	5	Relate	for King & Country
9	9	4	Stand In Faith	Danny Gokey
10	10	3	Come What May	We Are Messengers

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Word Of Life” – Jeremy Camp

MATTHEW WEST – Yesterday on #SundayScripture I revealed that I saw him LIVE in concert in Southwest Florida this past Friday night. He opened for Casting Crowns; although, he is worthy of being a headlining act on his own with a catalog of nearly 20 years of hits. I’ve only known him as a singer for the past 245 weeks, but he’s done amazing over these past 4 years and 8 months. “What If” is his 6TH hit, and 4TH # 1 smash. (His other 2 hits peaked at # 2.) This is his 124TH week on my chart – and 19TH week at # 1. I got to sing and dance (at my floor seat) to “What If” as Matthew sang it LIVE as the 3RD hit of his set.

CHART BUSTING just outside of my Top 10 this week is the new one from MercyMe. It’s “On Our Way”, and it was intended for Sam Wesley, as he cowrote it. But his dad – Bart Millard – loved it so much that he wanted it to be a MercyMe song. So he let Sam sing on the song and receive credit (and compensation) for doing so. Now it’s a Christian Top 20 hit from coast to coast, and it feels so good with its uplifting sound. Sam performed it with his dad and the MercyMe band LIVE in concert, and our Tampa audience was dancing along.

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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.

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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.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 244

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

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 17TH 2021	WEEK 244

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	14	What If [3RD week @ # 1]	Matthew West
2	2	3	Promised Land	TobyMac
3	5	12	House Of The Lord	Phil Wickham
4	3	8	Promises	Maverick City Music
5	4	10	Thank You Lord	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
6	–	1	When You Speak	Jeremy Camp
7	–	1	My God Is Still The Same	Sanctus Real
8	8	4	Relate	for King & Country
9	9	3	Stand In Faith	Danny Gokey
10	10	2	Come What May	We Are Messengers

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “Rise Up (Lazarus)” – Cain
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “The Gospel” – Ryan Stevenson

JEREMY’S 6TH – Jeremy Camp scores his 6TH hit on my chart since 2017, as “When You Speak” finally enters after a long delay. It’s been playing on the radio every day for the past 3 months, but (honesty alert here) – I didn’t really like it all that much. I thought it paled in comparison with his previous 3 long-lasting hits – “Dead Man Walking” (25 weeks on my chart), “Keep Me In The Moment” (20 weeks), and “Out Of My Hands” (18 weeks). The former 2 were # 1 hits, and the latter peaked at # 2 for 3 weeks. “When You Speak” likely won’t last that long or peak that high, but the fact that I like it enough now for it to debut at # 6 is impressive. We’ll see how it goes.

ON THE RADIO – With K-LOVE in seasonal pledge drive mode this past week I sampled more of WGTS out of the Washington D.C. area (sounds good), and I also added The Message on SiriusXM. They play more new music and fewer recurrents on The Message. (The new Sanctus Real song at # 7 is currently in heavy rotation on The Message.) This upcoming week I’ll be checking-out The Joy FM.

This blog is # 37 worldwide on the Top 80 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.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 243

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 11, 2021

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 10TH 2021	WEEK 243

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	1	13	What If [2ND week @ # 1]	Matthew West
2	3	2	Promised Land	TobyMac
3	4	7	Promises	Maverick City Music
4	2	9	Thank You Lord	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
5	6	11	House Of The Lord	Phil Wickham
6	7	23	Yes He Can	Cain
7	8	27	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
8	9	3	Relate	for King & Country
9	10	2	Stand In Faith	Danny Gokey
10	–	1	Come What May	We Are Messengers

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Fear No More” – Building 429
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “The Gospel” – Ryan Stevenson

PRAISE & WORSHIP @ # 5 – Yesterday morning at my church service we kicked-off Praise & Worship at 11 AM with Phil Wickham’s “House Of The Lord” for the very first time. I was hoping we would eventually add this “jam” to our rotation, as it seems to be the perfect “pick-up” song to kick-off our weekly celebration in our house of the Lord. I thought we sounded pretty good considering it was our first time singing it. We’ll be even better next time when we sing it to our Lord again.

#WAM @ # 10 – It took awhile (much longer than expected), but one of my former #CHARTBUSTERS (from 9 weeks ago !) has finally entered my Top 10. It’s the latest from We Are Messengers, and it’s their 7TH hit on my chart over the past 4½ years. It’s from their forthcoming album “Wholehearted” – which drops this upcoming Friday. They are fun to see LIVE in concert. I’ve seen them twice (2019 and 2021) – both times as an opener for TobyMac.

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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.

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My Top 10 Hits – Week 242

COUNTUP MINISTRIES	FOR THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY OCTOBER 03RD 2021	WEEK 242

TW	LW	WKS	SONG TITLE	ARTIST / SITE
1	3	12	What If [1ST week @ # 1]	Matthew West
2	2	8	Thank You Lord	Chris Tomlin Ft. Thomas Rhett & Florida Georgia Line
3	–	1	Promised Land	TobyMac
4	7	6	Promises	Maverick City Music
5	1	12	Into The Wild	Josh Baldwin
6	5	10	House Of The Lord	Phil Wickham
7	4	22	Yes He Can	Cain
8	6	26	Gospel Song	Rhett Walker
9	10	2	Relate	for King & Country
10	–	1	Stand In Faith	Danny Gokey

# 1 This Week In:
2020 – “God So Loved” – We The Kingdom
2019 – “Nobody (But Jesus)” – Casting Crowns Ft. Matthew West
2018 – “Only Jesus” – Casting Crowns
2017 – “Broken Things” – Matthew West

NEW # 1 – “What If” my # 1 artist over the past 242 weeks of chart action scored my new # 1 smash this week ? That would be Matthew West, and his 6TH hit is now his 4TH # 1 smash. His only 2 hits to not reach # 1 both peaked at # 2 – “All In”, and “Truth Be Told”. (The latter spent 5 weeks in a row at # 2 to kickoff 2021.)

IN @ # 3 – TobyMac scores my highest new entry in 3½ years, as his 9TH hit since 2017 and 12TH hit since 2007 enters straight-in at # 3. It’s an instant out-of-the-box smash, as they used to say in the radio biz. The first few times I heard it on the radio I had no idea it was TobyMac. When I discovered that it was him I realized that he has a great singing voice. I know that’s an odd comment after being a fan of him for nearly all of my salvation, but in many of his songs they are highly produced, and his voice has to keep up with the instruments and the machines. In “Promised Land” his strong voice carries the way from start to finish. I think this is one of my favorite songs from Toby ever.

COLLAPSE @ # 5 – Josh Baldwin’s “Into The Wild” is a great case study as to what happens when my favorite song – the # 1 smash – completely loses all support at radio. It never quite got the “2:20 Treatment” – airplay every 2 hours and 20 minutes around the clock – but it did receive substantial airplay for about 10 weeks. And then it inexplicably completely stopped this past week. It had another week or two left in its # 1 reign, but with no radio support it can’t sustain its presence atop my chart.

HELLO WGTS – I’ve recently supplemented my K-LOVE radio listening with occasional listening of WGTS out of my original hometown of the Washington D.C. area. It’s been broadcasting on 91.9 FM for almost 65 years with various Christian formats. Nowadays it’s a hot adult contemporary station that plays a very similar playlist to K-LOVE. It sounds good, and it’s cool to listen to a radio station from back in my childhood home. #AlexaPlayWGTS

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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.