Amended Year-End charts

[Hervard]

As many of you know, for the first time ever, R&R published a full Top 100 chart for the Christian AC format in 2004 (before, like the other Christian formats, they only did a Top 25 of the year). 
However, many people were disappointed that the Top 100 chart contained a whole slew of recurrent songs.  Most of them were holdovers from 2003, but there were a few songs that were several years old, including "God Of Wonders" by City On A Hill, from 2000, and "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever" by SonicFlood, which was released in 1999.  Like many people, I didn't think a song from the last century belonged on a 2004 chart, so what I did over the weekend was made a chart, removing the nineteen recurrent songs and, to fill in the void left, I ranked the nineteen biggest songs that did chart in 2004 but failed to make the chart.  Now, these are just rough estimations and nothing more; I wasn't able to add the total number of spins, since, once the songs fell off the chart, I had no idea how many spins they received.  So, I just went with weeks on the chart, peak, as well as weeks on the New & Active list. 
Mind you; I didn't remove ALL holdovers from 2003.  Using R&R's general rule that a song has to be on the chart for at least one week within the chart year, I removed all songs that had fallen off the chart before the chart year started on December 5, 2003.  There are a few songs that were only on the chart for a few weeks after that date, but if the song wasn't on the chart at all during the 2004 chart year, it ain't here.
Anyway, here is the list I came up with:

POS) SONG/ARTIST
1) More/Matthew West
2) Blessed Be Your Name/Tree63
3) Here With Me/MercyMe
4) Who Am I/Casting Crowns
5) Glory Defined/Building 429
6) Walk By Faith/Jeremy Camp
7) Sing A Song/Third Day
8) You Raise Me Up/Selah
9) You Are My King (Amazing Love)/The Newsboys
10) Whatever It Takes/Nate Sallie
11) I Believe/Third Day
12) Word Of God Speak/MercyMe
13) If We Are The Body/Casting Crowns
14) Sea Of Faces/Kutless
15) Grace Like Rain/Todd Agnew
16) Open Skies/David Crowder Band
17) Beautiful/Bethany Dillon
18) You Are A Child Of Mine/Mark Schultz
19) Right Here/Jeremy Camp
20) Unspoken/Jaci Velasquez
21) Rain Down/Delirious?
22) All Things New/Steven Curtis Chapman
23) Leaving 99/Audio Adrenaline
24) All/Avalon
25) Pray/Darlene Zschech
26) Letters From War/Mark Schultz
27) Moment Made For Worshipping/Steven Curtis Chapman
28) Beautiful Name/ZoeGirl
29) All I Need/Bethany Dillon
30) (There's Gotta Be) More To Life/Stacie Orrico
31) Here I Am To Worship/Phillips Craig & Dean
32) Indescribable/Chris Tomlin
33) Mistaken/Warren Barfield
34) Beautiful One/By The Tree
35) Show You Love/Jars Of Clay
36) Fields Of Grace/Big Daddy Weave
37) Healing Rain/Michael W. Smith
38) Good To Be Free/FFH
39) Gravity/Shawn McDonald
40) Shelter/SonicFlood
41) Smile/Chris Rice
42) Wide Wide World/Erin O'Donnell
43) Yes I Will/Bebo Norman & Joy Williams
44) The End/Matthew West
45) Heart Cries Holy/Big Daddy Weave
46) Cry Holy/SonicFlood
47) I Love You Lord/Scott Riggan
48) You Were There/Avalon
49) O Praise Him (All This For A King)/David Crowder Band
50) The Power Of Your Love/Rebecca St. James
51) Lose This Life/Tait
52) Presence/The Newsboys
53) The Glory Of Your Name/Watermark
54) The Beauty Of Simplicity/Telecast
55) Voice Of Truth/Casting Crowns
56) You Get Me/ZoeGirl
57) The One Thing I Know/Sara Groves
58) Soak It Up/Warren Barfield
59) Never Alone/BarlowGirl
60) Still The Cross/FFH
61) The Space In Between Us/Building 429
62) New Day/Avalon
63) Here's My Life/Anthony Evans
64) Never Alone/Jody McBayer & Jadyn Maria
65) This Fragile Breath/Todd Agnew
66) Disappear/Bebo Norman
67) When I Fall/Rachael Lampa
68) Sunny Days/Jars Of Clay
69) The Love Of Christ/Point Of Grace
70) Wonderful/Jump5
71) You Are God Alone/Phillips Craig & Dean
72) Even Then/Nichole Nordeman
73) As I Lift You Up/Jeff Deyo
74) Go Light Your World/Chris Rice
75) Found By You/Across The Sky
76) Fall Down/Trevor Morgan
77) I Love The Way/Ginny Owens
78) I Choose You/Point Of Grace
79) Once Again/Fusebox
80) Upside Down/Trevor Morgan
81) Ready To Fly/FFH
82) Majesty (Here I Am)/Delirious?
83) Think About That/George Rowe
84) Heaven/Salvador
85) Deeper Life/Natalie Grant
86) Untitled Hymn (Come To Jesus)/Chris Rice
87) Alive In Love/The Swift
88) King/Tree63
89) You Reign/4Him
90) Signs/Michael W. Smith
91) Dancing With The Angels/Monk & Neagle
92) You Are Mine/Third Day
93) Expressions Of Your Love/Rebecca St. James w/Chris Tomlin
94) Out In The Open/Amy Grant
95) Amazing Grace/Darlene Zschech
96) I Wonder/Joy Williams
97) He Is Exhalted/Shane & Shane
98) Everlasting/George Rowe
99) I See Love/Third Day w/Steven Curtis Chapman & MercyMe
100) Live For Today/Natalie Grant

And that's the list.  I know that the bottom part isn't totally accurate, and quite frankly, I question the accuracy of the rest of the chart.  How is it possible that Scott Riggan's "I Love You Lord", which squeaked onto the chart for one week back in late January, managed to chart around the halfway point of the chart while "Ready To Fly", a song that had been high on the chart at the beginning of the chart year and had received pretty decent recurrent play, barely make the year end chart (R&R's version, that is).  But at least, here we have a chart that consists solely of 2004 songs, without any old songs that were fueled exclusively by recurrent airplay. 
With the installation of the recurrent rule about halfway through the year, I think we can count on seeing even more recurrents on the 2005 year end chart, many of those songs that would still be hanging around without the recurrent rule.  "Blessed Be Your Name" by Tree63 is bound to be riding high on the 2005 chart, especially since "King" isn't quite outperforming it in radio airplay.  And other songs like "Who Am I" and "Glory Defined" I'm sure we'll see on the charts, along with older songs like "I Can Only Imagine" and "He Reigns".
But at least you can rely on me to post a recurrent-less year end chart at that time, right? :)

[Hervard]

I just changed the title of my post (originally entitled Top 100 of 2004 sans recurrents) since coming soon are full year-end charts for the years 2001 through 2003. I am in the process of gathering together all of the R&R Christian AC charts and will be tabulating the year-end charts over the next few weeks. The R&R Christian AC chart debuted on May 25, 2001 so I'll be using the 20: The Countdown Magazine charts prior to that date, since those charts were very close to the R&R charts.
These charts will be posted as soon as I get them tabulated. Stay tuned.

[Hervard]

OK, I have a list for 2001.  My original plan was to just use the 20: The Countdown Magazine charts until late May, which was when R&R started printing their Christian AC charts, and then use R&R from then on, but I noticed several songs that were in the Top 20 of the 20: Countdown chart for many weeks, but only made the R&R Top 20 for only a week or two ("Isn't It Love" by Andrew Peterson is a great example of this) and there were a few songs that made the R&R Top 20 but didn't touch the 20: Countdown chart ("Letting Go" by Nikki Leonti, anyone?), so I decided to just use one or the other publication's charts to make my list.  Obviously, I can't use R&R's charts for the early half of the year, so I had to go with the 20: Countdown charts (published by CCM back then). 
Also, I had planned to print the list, leaving R&R's Top 50 of 2001 as is, but when I computed the points up, it seemed like they favored songs from the latter half of the year.  You're probably saying, "Well of course, if they started out in May."  Well, they did have songs from early 2001, but they seemed to be ranked much lower than they should have been while a few songs that debuted about a month before the end of the chart year that made the Top 50 (other songs that had been on for much longer were not on the list)  So I decided to scrap the idea of using R&R's list for the top half of my list and just create my own list.
However, there was one problem.   In the period starting with the December 4, 2000 CCM chart and ending with the December 3 chart, there were only 90 songs that charted in that period.  Of course, the logical solution for this would be to scan the R&R Christian AC charts, which go down to 30, and pick out the biggest songs that didn't quite hit the CCM chart.   Well, that does indeed sound logical, but what about songs from January through May?  So what I decided to do was to pick out songs that ranked high on Pulse FM's Top 96 of 2001. Their list was, for the most part, representative of the Christian AC charts of 2001, so songs 92-100 were pretty much accurate. I couldn't find any other Christian AC charts from early, 2001, so this was the best I could do. The lists for 2002 on are more accurate.
Meanwhile, here's the list I came up with.

1) Live Out Loud/Steven Curtis Chapman
2) Above All/Michael W. Smith
3) Blue Skies/Point Of Grace
4) The Glory/Avalon
5) Welcome Home/Shaun Groves
6) Call On Jesus/Nicole C. Mullen
7) The Promise/Plus One
8) Thank You/The Katinas
9) Wonder Why/Avalon
10) In Me/Rebecca St. James
11) Blessed/Rachael Lampa
12) Watching Over Me/FFH
13) The Word/Sara Groves
14) Remember Me/Mark Schultz
15) Everytime I Fall/Jaci Velasquez
16) Keep On Shining/Natalie Grant
17) Wonderful One/Newsong
18) Sufficiency Of Grace/Greg Long
19) Joy/The Newsboys
20) Praise Forevermore/Point Of Grace
21) Adore/Jaci Velasquez
22) I Smile/Russ Lee
23) With A Little Faith/Stacie Orrico
24) Let My Words Be Few/Phillips Craig & Dean
25) Now And Forever/True Vibe
26) Say A Prayer/CeCe Winans
27) Who You Are/Caedmon's Call
28) Say The Words (Now)/dc Talk
29) You Lift Me Up/Rachael Lampa
30) No Place So Far/Erin O'Donnell
31) Life Means So Much/Chris Rice
32) Worth It All/Michael W. Smith
33) I Have Been There/Mark Schultz
34) Living For You/ZoeGirl
35) All Things New/Watermark
36) Hold Onto Jesus/Erin O'Donnell
37) The Change/Steven Curtis Chapman
38) Good For Me/Watermark
39) How Is It Between Us/Sara Groves
40) What Breaks Your Heart/Scott Krippayne
41) Psalm 112/4Him
42) Red Letter Day/Newsong
43) Missing Love/PFR
44) Wait For Me/Rebecca St. James
45) Show Me Your Glory/Third Day
46) Defining Moment/Newsong
47) Shine Like Crazy/Out Of The Grey
48) Resonate/SonicFlood
49) These Thousand Hills/Third Day
50) All You Got/Tait
51) I Believe In You/Joy Williams
52) I Like/Cheri Keaggy
53) Crucified/Salvador
54) Without You/Tammy Trent
55) Smell The Color 9/Chris Rice
56) Trust Me/Crystal Lewis
57) Can't Stop/The Darins
58) Let's Go/Mark Schultz
59) Whenever You Need Somebody/Natalie Grant f/Plus One
60) Isn't It Love/Andrew Peterson
61) Parade/Kathy Troccoli
62) Soul Tattoo/Plus One
63) Lord Move Or Move Me/FFH
64) God Loves You/Rachael Lampa
65) I Can Only Imagine/MercyMe
66) The Face Of Christ/Chris Rice
67) With All Of My Heart/ZoeGirl
68) No You/ZoeGirl
69) Without Love/Stacie Orrico
70) You Found Me/True Vibe
71) Don't Save It All For Christmas Day/Avalon
72) All Consuming Fire/Jennifer Knapp
73) Don't Worry/Rebecca St. James
74) Kiss Of Heaven/Darlene Zschech
75) God Is In This Place/Plus One
76) Dream/Michelle Tumes
77) Faith Enough/Carmen
78) Shine/Bryan Duncan
79) 26 Letters/Ben Glover
80) Deeper Still/Scott Krippayne
81) Open Up The Sky/FFH
82) Live What I Believe/Russ Lee
83) In The Waiting/Greg Long
84) God Of Wonders/City On A Hill
85) Loss For Words/Tait
86) Fragile Heart/Yolanda Adams
87) Been Through The Water/Kyle Matthews
88) God Is God/Steven Curtis Chapman
89) Touch Of Faith/Joy Williams
90) I Am/Bebo Norman
91) Fool For You/Nichole Nordeman
92) Letting Go/Nikki Leonti
93) Shaken/Rachael Lampa
94) Serious/Joy Williams
95) Look What You've Done For Me/Tree63
96) You Are My Hope/Skillet
97) Jump Jump Jump/True Vibe
98) Make It Last Forever/Avalon
99) Believer/Jake
100)Ocean/Ten Shekel Shirt


And so it goes.  Again, I'm sure this list is not 100 percent accurate, but the lists for 2002 and 2003, which will be posted soon, should be.

 

[Hervard]

Well, it took awhile, but I finally got the Top 100 songs of 2002 all figured out.  Like in 2001, songs from the latter half of the year seemed to have an unfair advantage, which doesn't make sense.  Usually, songs released in the last few months of the year don't have enough plays to register high on the year end charts, but they seemed to, in fact, do a little better while songs from early 2002 ranked lower than they should have been.  Therefore, I made my own chart.  Like in 2002, I used an inverse point system.  With monitored charts, that might seem like an unfair method, but keep in mind that, back in 2002, the Christian AC chart did not have a recurrent rule (that was added in May, 2004).  Plus, songs didn't stick around as long as they do now.  2003 was when songs began having much longer chart lives (with MercyMe spending double digit weeks on top with "Word Of God Speak" and "You Are So Good To Me" by Third Day refusing to leave the Top Ten for the longest time), but there wasn't a recurrent rule then, either, so I think the inverse point system will still work (it kind of has to, since R&R only listed the Top 25 songs of that year!)
But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.  In the meantime, here is the Christian AC Top 100 of 2002, with reverse points:

1) Magnificent Obsession/Steven Curtis Chapman
2) Back In His Arms Again/Mark Schultz
3) Ocean Floor/Audio Adrenaline
4) Million Pieces/The Newsboys
5) It's Alright/Third Day
6) It Is You/The Newsboys
7) I Don't Want To Go/Avalon
8) Fly Away/FFH
9) I Can Only Imagine/MercyMe
10) Undeniably You/Avalon
11) Surrender/4Him
12) No Greater Love/Rachael Lampa
13) I Am/Ginny Owens
14) I'm All Yours/Rachael Lampa
15) I Need You/Jars Of Clay
16) You Will Never Walk Alone/Point Of Grace
17) Fly/Jars Of Clay
18) In Christ/Big Daddy Weave
19) Before There Was Time/Caedmon's Call
20) God Is God/Steven Curtis Chapman
21) Holy/Nichole Nordeman
22) Breathing Life/Salvador
23) We Delight/Caedmon's Call
24) See The Light/True Vibe
25) Forever/Plus One
26) You Are The Way/True Vibe
27) Sing Alleluia/Jennifer Knapp & Mac Powell
28) In God We Trust/Voices Of Hope
29) Song Of Love/Rebecca St. James
30) Move Me/Shaun Groves
31) Savior My Savior/Freddie Colloca
32) Fill My Cup/Paul Colman Trio
33) Take Me To The Cross/Brother's Keeper
34) Open Up The Sky/FFH
35) First Song That I Sing/Sara Groves
36) After The Music Fades/Shaun Groves
37) Traveling Light/Joel Hanson & Sara Groves
38) Yes I Believe/Point Of Grace
39) Holy Is Your Name/Bebo Norman
40) Show Me Your Glory/Third Day
41) With All Of My Heart/ZoeGirl
42) What Other Man/Natalie Grant
43) One Fine Day/Anointed
44) Psalm 112/4Him
45) Great Light Of The World/Bebo Norman
46) To Ever Live Without Me/Jody McBrayer
47) Spoken For/MercyMe
48) Here And Now/ZoeGirl
49) You Are/The Katinas
50) Breathe/Rebecca St. James
51) Wide Open/Newsong
52) Come Unto Me/Nicole C. Mullen
53) All I Really Want/Lincoln Brewster
54) I Have Been There/Mark Schultz
55) Talk About It/Nicole C. Mullen
56) Rejoice/The Katinas
57) Touch Of Faith/Joy Williams
58) Surrender/Joy Williams
59) Say Won't You Say/Jennifer Knapp
60) Breathe/Michael W. Smith
61) Resonate/Sonicflood
62) With Me/Ginny Owens
63) Constant/Watermark
64) Whenever You Need Somebody/Plus One with Natalie Grant
65) I Know You Now/4Him
66) Loss For Words/Tait
67) Beautiful/Sarah Sadler
68) Write Your Name Upon My Heart/Sonicflood
69) The River's Gonna Keep On Rolling/Amy Grant
70) Nothing Compares/Third Day
71) Deeper Still/Scott Krippayne
72) Greater Is He/Janna Long
73) Praise Forevermore/Point Of Grace
74) Think Of Me/Mark Schultz
75) All About Grace/Allen Asbury
76) Dream/Michelle Tumes
77) Above All/Michael W. Smith
78) Wonder Why/Avalon
79) For Love Alone/CeCe Winans
80) Call On Jesus/Nicole C. Mullen
81) Who You Are/Caedmon's Call
82) You're My Little Girl/Go Fish
83) I Won't Take You For Granted/Greg Long
84) Sing/Aaron Spira
85) Other Side Of The Radio/Chris Rice
86) Breathe Your Name/Sixpence None The Richer
87) Great Are You/Downhere
88) Defining Moment/Newsong
89) Enough/Chris Tomlin
90) In Green Pastures/Jaci Velasquez
91) Purified/Michael W. Smith
92) Brave/Out Of The Grey
93) Lord Have Mercy/Michael W. Smith
94) You Found Me/True Vibe
95) Let Me Be The One/Plus One
96) You'll Never Thirst/Anointed
97) My Hope/David Crowder Band
98) King Of My Heart/Michelle Tumes
99) Letting Go/Nikki Leonti
100) Live Out Loud/Steven Curtis Chapman

And that's about where it's at for 2002. I'll get 2003's chart posted as soon as I can. I have a few busy weeks coming up, so it might be awhile but, I assure you, unless I should happen to croak (Heaven forbid!), I will most definitely get the big list for 2003 posted eventually.