20: The Countdown Magazine - 5/8/04

[Hervard]

Well whaddya know, I was able to listen to 20: Countdown this weekend after all. My Yoga class, which usually meets on the first Saturday of the month (well, first Saturday after first Friday, or something like that), but it was cancelled today. Then, I went to run errands, but at the mall I went to, no stores were open yet when I got there (which was about ten minutes after nine). I did, however, miss one song, #8, plus I forgot what song #13 was (I was in downtown traffic at the time). If someone would care to fill in the blanks, that would be much appreciated.
Oh yeah, this week's countdown was a special: The Top 20 Hits from Third Day. If the actual weekly chart is available, I'll post that too, but for now, here is the Third Day Top 20:

TC SONG
01 God Of Wonders
02 Show Me Your Glory
03 King Of Glory
04 You Are So Good To Me
05 It's Alright
06 These Thousand Hills
07 Your Love O Lord
08 ??
09 Nothing Compares
10 Sing A Song
11 Manger Throne
12 Come Together
13 (forgot the title of this song - Here With Me?)
14 Forever
15 My Hope Is You
16 O Come O Come Emmanuel
17 Agnes Dei
18 Sky Fall Down
19 Love Song
20 The Creed

If I have some of those titles wrong, feel free to correct me. I'm not a big Third Day fan, so I don't know all their songs. Frankly, this was sort of a lame show to me and I wish they'd run this one the weekend of January 10 and saved the Michael W. Smith show for this weekend. I wonder what was #1 on that one? I'm thinking it was probably "Friends", since that's the song that Michael is most famous for. Either that or "Place In This World", his biggest Pop crossover hit.

[Matt4319]

I didn't hear the show, but I'd be surprised if "Consuming Fire" wasn't one of the top 20.

[Hervard]

That's probably the one that was at #8.

[Hervard]

Well, at last, they've updated the site. For awhile, I was thinking that the Top 20 Third Day countdown would be the one listed (since on the old site, that was how they did it - probably because CCM took breaks once in awhile), but it was a regular countdown - one that we won't be hearing. Here it is:

LC TC SONG/ARTIST
01 01 Glory Defined/Building 429
02 02 Blessed Be Your Name/Tree 63
03 03 Who Am I/Casting Crowns
05 04 Here With Me/MercyMe
04 05 More/Matthew West
07 06 Beautiful/Bethany Dillon
06 07 Right Here/Jeremy Camp
08 08 Here I Am To Worship/Phillips Craig & Dean
11 09 You Raise Me Up/Josh Groban
10 10 Grace Like Rain/Todd Agnew
09 11 Shelter/SonicFlood
12 12 Yes I Will/Bebo Norman & Joy Williams
13 13 Whatever It Takes/Nate Sallie
14 14 All/Avalon
16 15 Rain Down/Delirious
15 16 Beautiful Name/ZoeGirl
17 17 Unspoken/Jaci Velasquez
19 18 Open Skies/David Crowder Band
18 19 Leaving 99/Audio Adrenaline
XX 20 Sunny Days/Jars Of Clay

Dropped:
From #20: Lord You Reign/4Him

So for the second week in a row, there's only one debut and a song that just debuted the previous week leaves the survey. This also means that "Letters From War" by Mark Schultz hasn't returned yet, but I'll eat my hat if it won't, since it's getting a lot of airplay on Christian AC stations all over the country. I figured it probably dropped to #21 last week, but it can't be, since that's the position that was occupied by the new Jars Of Clay song.
It looks like my favorite song is going to be leaving the chart next week, "Leaving 99". It's a shame it didn't get any higher than it did, but for awhile, the chart was compiled by a bunch of apes with blindfolds on. Fortunately, except for the absence of "Letters From War", it looks like CRW has fired the primates and the chart is back to normal (as back in late February and all of March, there was odd chart movement).