20 TCM: 02/10/12

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Here’s the chart:

2C 1C TC WO Song-Artist
01 01 01 24 My Hope Is In You-Aaron Shust (13th week at #1)
02 02 02 20 Strong Enough To Save-Tenth Avenue North
03 03 03 12 Remind Me Who I Am-Jason Gray
10 04 04 11 Where I Belong-Building 429
06 06 05 23 Turn Around-Matt Maher
07 08 06 11 Love Come To Life-Big Daddy Weave
04 07 07 33 Lift Me Up-The Afters
09 09 08 10 We Are-Kari Jobe
13 10 09 15 Waiting For Tomorrow-Mandisa
05 05 10 03 Overcome-Jeremy Camp
16 12 11 06 Busted Heart (Hold On To Me)-For King And Country
11 14 12 34 Strong Enough-Matthew West
15 13 13 03 When The Stars Burn Down (Blessing And Honor)-Phillips, Craig And Dean
20 11 14 13 Battle-Chris August
Xx Xx 15 04 Leaving Eden-Brandon Heath
18 17 16 04 Learning To Be The Light-NewWorldSon
14 15 17 06 All Of Me-Matt Hammitt
Xx 18 18 02 You Lead-Jamie Grace
Xx Xx 19 01 God’s Not Dead (Like A Lion)-Newsboys & Kevin Max
Xx 16 20 02 All This Time-Britt Nicole

Dropped Songs:

#19: I Lift My Hands-Chris Tomlin (32 weeks on)
#20: Give Them Jesus-Jaci Velasquez (1 week on)

Jon’s Future Favorite: Matter Of Faith-Peter Furler
Artist Spotlight: Phillips, Craig, And Dean

I hate this chart. It makes absolutely no sense. Songs are moving and moving down back and forth. They rise quickly for no reason and drop for no reason. The chart does not reflect the spin counts on radio stations. Songs keep moving around so randomly that one cannot tell what songs could succeed. High debuts mean nothing as songs can easily drop regardless. The inanity just never stops. At least we didn’t break any records this week. So, I’m going to stop investing my time in this countdown. I’ll listen to it every week and post it. But I won’t comment on the weekly charts and will stop thinking about the chart at other times. As soon as the folks at 20 TCM figure out how to do their jobs, then I can pay attention again and it will actually be enjoyable. Till then, I’ll just focus on other things.

On other quick thing I was going to mention was what songs might be number one of the year. But, after listening to this week’s chart, I’m sure my insights will mean nothing unless the chart stabilizes. If it does, several big and growing artists have a chance at number one this year.

Here’s the weekly predictions chart:

# SONG - ARTIST - TOP20WKS-TOP10WKS-PEAK(WKS#1)-POINTS

1) My Hope Is In You - Aaron Shust - 6-6-1(3)-112
2) Remind Me Who I Am - Jason Gray - 6-6-3-108
3) Strong Enough To Save - Tenth Avenue North - 6-6-2-105
4) Lift Me Up - The Afters - 6-6-1(1)-103
5) Love Come To Life - Big Daddy Weave - 6-6-6-79
6) Where I Belong - Building 429 - 6-3-4-70
7) Courageous - Casting Crowns - 4-4-1(1)-66
8) We Are - Kari Jobe - 6-4-8-5-64
9) Waiting For Tomorrow - Mandisa - 6-4-9-62
10) Turn Around - Matt Maher - 6-3-5-58
11) Busted Heart (Hold On To Me) - For King And Country - 6-2-7-58
12) All Of Me - Matt Hammitt - 6-1-8-44
13) Overcame - Jeremy Camp - 3-3-5-43
14) Strong Enough - Matthew West - 4-1-6-41
15) Fall Apart - Josh Wilson - 4-2-8-39
16) Leaving Eden - Brandon Heath - 4-2-5-36
17) The Way - Jeremy Camp - 3-0-11-24
18) I Lift My Hands - Chris Tomlin - 3-1-4-23
19) When The Stars Burn Down (Blessing And Honor)-Phillips, Craig, And Dean - 3-0-13-22
20) Battle - Chris August - 4-0-11-21

[Hervard]

Is it me, or is this the first chart in years without a song by Chris Tomlin on it?

[esoteric76]

^ You might be right!

Great seeing Britt Nicole on the chart.

And to those of you that watched The Grammys, how great was it seeing Joy Williams (of the Civil Wars) singing on the show??

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I mentioned Britt Nicole's song being on here made no sense because she had so few spins. Actually, she picked up 315 spins this past week. The spin count rank now matches with the 20 TCM rank. For some reason, stations really like that song and have picked it up to an unprecedented extent. So for those who really like this song, it seems likely to head straight to one and do well enough to be on the year-end countdown.

[Hervard]

Actually, it makes even less sense that "Leaving Eden" returned to the chart. That song was low on the Billboard Christian AC chart and had been without a bullet for weeks. In fact, on the latest Christian AC chart (for week ending February 25), the song falls off the chart. Only time will tell if it's still on the next 20: Countdown chart

EDIT: Yes it is! Right after I posted it, the song started playing. I won't say what number it is, since I don't want to steal any thunder away from danno. :)