20: The Countdown Magazine - 11/6/04

[Hervard]

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 12 Beautiful One/By The Tree
03 02 11 Indescribable/Chris Tomlin
02 03 23 Walk By Faith/Jeremy Camp
05 04 10 Healing Rain/Michael W. Smith
06 05 03 Voice Of Truth/Casting Crowns
07 06 08 Presence/The Newsboys
08 07 07 You Are God Alone/Phillips Craig & Dean
09 08 08 Still The Cross/FFH
04 09 32 Here With Me/MercyMe
10 10 13 All I Need/Bethany Dillon
11 11 04 The Space In Between Us/Building 429
12 12 10 King/Tree63
13 13 04 The Glory Of Your Name/Watermark
14 14 10 Alive In Love/The Swift
XX 15 01 Dancing With The Angels/Monk & Neagle
16 16 15 Fall Down/Trevor Morgan
15 17 24 I Believe/Tree63
19 18 12 Gravity/Shaun McDonald
18 19 15 Beauty Of Simplicity/Telecast
XX 20 01 I Choose You/Point Of Grace

Dropped:
From #17: He Is Exalted/Shane & Shane
From #20: Much Of You/Steven Curtis Chapman

Jon's Future Favorite:
Come Home/Overflow

Artist Spotlight:
FFH

By The Tree holds onto the top spot for a second week.  But how long can they fend off Chris Tomlin?  Michael W. Smith could hit the top spot too and Casting Crowns is definitely not out of the question as they continue to climb instead of falling back like most songs seem to do the week after they take a monster jump or debut real high.
No really big moves to speak of.  All ascending non-debut songs move up one spot.  Two songs debut, both former Jon's Future Favorites.  Point Of Grace kicked off the countdown with one of them, "I Choose You", a song I really like.  The highest debut is "Dancing With The Angels" by Monk & Neagle.  How far will these songs go?  We'll see in ensuing weeks.
The droppers this week - it just doesn't make sense.  Steven Curtis Chapman had debuted at number 20 last week in his first week on (CRW has an extended chart) and this week he's gone.  I have a feeling he'll be back, though.  And the latest by Shane & Shane - the song had only been on for three weeks.  It's too early for it to be over for that song as well.  We'll have to wait and see what pans out.
The oldest song in the countdown, "Here With Me" by MercyMe, also takes the biggest drop, falling 4-9.  Hmm, maybe it won't break the record for the longest stay ever.  Oh well, I didn't really expect it to.  Besides, MercyMe already has the record with their monster hit from last year, "Word Of God Speak".
Jon's Future Favorite, "Come Home" by Overflow, is sort of a special pick, for he says he doesn't really expect it to make the chart in the near future.  I forget exactly why, since I was busy while I listened to the show.  Maybe koalaclement can chime in and elaborate on this.

[clem]

ulij20 said:

LC TC wc SONG/ARTIST
01 01 12 Beautiful Name/By The Tree
XX 15 01 Dancing With The Angels/Monk & Naegle
19 18 12 Gravity/Shawn Mullins

It's "Beautiful One", Monk & Neagle, and Shawn McDonald.

Anyways, I'll be glad to elaborate once I hear the show in a couple of hours.

[Hervard]

Sorry about that. All three mistakes have been corrected.

[Hervard]

Looks like the positions on the extended chart are no longer used for the previous weeks' positions on the website, as both debuts show zeroes in their past two week trends. I find it hard to believe that the new Point Of Grace song is just now debuting, since it came out a month ago.
Then again, we're talking about the CRW chart. And we know all too well the story about the erratic chart moves on that!

BTW, koalaclement, did you hear what the story on the special Jon's Future Favorite was?

[clem]

Actually, I wasn't really paying attention either ( ), but I could list a few special things about it:

1. They are not rock, yet not pop either. They sound more like a hybrid of both.

2. Mac Powell produced their CD.

3. Billboard called the debut CD "the most impressive debut in the Christian format so far this year".

4. They get their name from Psalm 23. ("my cup overflows")