All the best in 2008!
You have my prayers for a superblessed new year, everybody!
If there’s one thing I pray for all of you, it’s that you make a difference in someone’s life in 2008!
Read MoreMy 20 favorite songs for 2007 are…
I’ve maintained my Top 20 charts since 1990 (the very first #1 song? Release Me by Wilson Phillips). This year, the Top 20 Singles and Tracks chart was whittled down to 10 in November, owing primarily to the fact that I wasn’t listening to current Christian and secular pop music as often as I used to. Nevertheless, here are my personal 20 favorite singles and tracks of 2007.
1. Unrestrained, Mandisa. (9 weeks at #1)
2. You Are Everything, Matthew West. West (8 weeks)
3. Total Praise, Avalon (6 weeks)
4. Everlasting God, Lincoln Brewster (4 weeks)
5. Only the World, Mandisa (4 weeks)
6. You, Britt Nicole (4 weeks)
7. God Speaking, Mandisa (3 weeks)
8. Undo, Rush of Fools (2 weeks)9. Irreplaceable, Beyonce (2 weeks)
10. You Are Loved, Josh Groban (2 weeks)
11. Take Me There, Rascal Flatts (1 week)
12. What Could Be Better (The Days Ahead), 33Miles (1 week)
13. Someday, Nina (1 week)
14. Hood Boy, Fantasia (1 week)
15. I’m Not Who I Was, Brandon Heath (1 week)
16. In Christ Alone, Avalon (1 week)
17. That’s How You Know, Amy Adams (1 week to date)
18. Anyway, Katie Giguere
19. Lift Up the Name, Jamie Jamgochian & Scott Krippayne
20. So Small, Carrie Underwood
What are some of your favorite songs for 2007?
Read MoreMy two favorite movies of 2007
… and I like them both equally. What were your favorite films of 2007?
Mandisa adds to list of chart-toppers
Joy!
This week, Mandisa earns her first #1 hit on the Christian AC charts with Christmas Day, a duet with evergreen Christian performer Michael W. Smith. Taken off the latter’s Christmas album, it is the first Christian singles chart-topper for the Season Five American Idol finalist. Her previous single, Only The World, the carrier single of Mandisa’s debut album True Beauty, peaked in the top 10 but topped the Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart for five weeks.
Add that to the #1 debut of True Beauty on the Billboard Christian Albums and Christian/Gospel albums charts, that brings the number of Mandisa’s number ones to four.
The cherry on the cake is Mandisa’s #2 finish with Christmas Makes Me Cry, a duet with Christian singer/songwriter Matthew West. This is the first time in recent memory – and I’ve followed the Christian charts since I can remember – that one artist has had the #1 and #2 positions on the Christian singles chart.
(Of course, we can expect a huge plummet from the top for Mandisa’s Christmas singles, but maybe she can turn Christmas for herself into what Kimberley Locke has done on AC.)
Further down the chart, Christian songwriter Bebo Norman has five – count ‘em, FIVE – songs out of thirty. Christmas Time is Here, Come and Worship, What Child Is This? Joy to the World, and Go Tell It On the Mountain. Christian rock band Needtobreathe is also on the chart with its version of Go Tell It On the Mountain. Josh Groban barely misses making his first Christian Top 10 hit as I’ll Be Home for Christmas peters out at #12. Casting Crowns’ Away in a Manger, now on the recurrent chart because it was released last year, was played so many times on Christian radio that if it were eligible to chart, would be #1. Man, Christmas does strange things to the Christian chart, doesn’t it?
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