Radio and Records released their 2008 Year End Charts, and here's a peek at the most played songs on Christian radio formats:
Top 5 Gospel songs:
1) Never Would Have Made It, Marvin Sapp
2) Work It Out, Troy Sneed Presents Bonafide Praisers
3) I Trust You, James Fortune & FIYA Black
4) He's Done Enough, Beverly Crawford
5) Jesus, Shekinah Glory Ministry
Top 5 Christian AC songs:
1) You Are Everything, Matthew West
2) Let It Fade, Jeremy Camp
3) Call My Name, Third Day
4) God With us, MercyMe
5) You Reigh, Mercy Me
Top 5 Christian CHR songs:
1) Never Going Back To OK, The Afters
2) Give Me Your Eyes, Brandon Heath
3) Those Nights, Skillet
4) No Matter What It Takes, Jeremy Camp
5) Call My Name, Third Day
Top 5 Christian Rock songs:
1) Whispers In The Dark, Skillet
2) Hello Alone, Anberlin
3) Crash, Decyfer Down
4) Devastation And Reform, Relient K
5) The Flame In All Of Us, Thousand Foot Krutch
Top 5 Soft AC/Inspirational songs:
1) Jesus Messiah, Chris Tomlin
2) You Reign, MercyMe
3) You're Not Along, Meredith Andrews
4) What Life Would Be Like, Big Daddy Weave
5) Mighty To Save, Laura Story
To put some of this into perspective, the Gospel song "Never Would Have Made It," by Marvin Sapp, got 50,503 plays in 2008. It was the most played song of the charts listed above. Matthew West's "You Are Everything" was next with 47,006 plays. In contrast, Skillet's "Whispers In The Dark" had 4,505 plays.
If you're curious about how those numbers compare to mainstream charts, the mainstream AC top song, "Love Song," by Sara Bareilles, had 73,537 plays. Active Rock's "Addicted," by Saving Abel, had 44,269 plays and Alternative Rock "Let It Die" by Foo Fighters had 41,414 plays. The number one song of all formats was the Rhythmic song "Low," by Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain Poe, with 128,224 plays.
You can check out all of the Radio and Records year end charts on the R&R website.
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Listening to my local contemporary Christian station, these don't surprise me.
Why can't 'listener supported' stations get away with playing a more diverse playlist? Our station devotes 3 hrs on Saturday night to rock and R&B and the rest is the same...tired...stuff. If these stations aren't slaves to the almighty advertising dollar, why can't they have more diversity? They just have the listeners to answer to, and we all know they don't listen to us!!
There ought to be more stations that mix in all of the genres. Satellite radio offers a nice way to dip your toe into most everything, but more often than not, Christian rock gets the biggest slight. And that's not evening mentioning the really hard rock stuff from labels like Tooth & Nail.
Christian radio directs its programming based on a ficticious demographic, "Becky." You can read more about it in the posts linked below, but basically it's all aimed at the 30-something soccer mom.
Christian radio, like any radio, directs programming where the $ is, and while it's listener supported vs ad revenue supported, they still need to please the listener who is willng to open their pocket.
Christian radio is now the second most popular music radio format, so you're not going to see any changes soon. Here are a couple more posts that you might find interesting:
Contemporary Christian radio now second most popular music format
http://blog.beliefnet.com/gospelsoundcheck/2008/12/contemporary-christian-radio-s.html
3 Things you ned to know about the Christian music industry and the economy
http://blog.beliefnet.com/gospelsoundcheck/2008/10/3-things-you-need-to-know-abou.html
Are you an average Christian music radio listener?
http://blog.beliefnet.com/gospelsoundcheck/2008/07/are-you-an-average-christian-r.html
Joanne
host of the GS blog
I haven't heard any of these songs, except the Marvin Sapp one and the Brandon Heath one.
Where can I download these songs ? Plz tell me someone ....
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