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2006 Top 10, At A Glance

Downhere1) A Better Way, by Downhere
Album: Wide-Eyed And MystifiedCasting Crowns2) Praise You In This Storm, by Casting Crowns
Album: LifesongJeremy Camp3) Walk By Faith, by Jeremy Camp
Album: Carried Me: The Worship ProjectAndy Chrisman of 4HIM4) Believe, by Andy Chrisman of 4HIM
Album: OneJoy Williams5) Here With Us, by Joy Williams
Album: Every Moment: The Best Of Joy WilliamsCasting Crowns6) Who Am I, by Casting Crowns
Album: Casting CrownsJeremy Camp7) What It Means, by Jeremy Camp
Album: Beyond MeasureNatalie Grant8) Awaken, by Natalie Grant
Album: AwakentobyMac9) Burn For You (Shortwave Radio Mix), by tobyMac
Album: Renovating->Diverse CityMark Schultz10) Broken & Beautiful, by Mark Schultz
Album: Broken & Beautiful

Summary Of The Chart Year

What a stormy time the end of 2005 and much of 2006 was. Not coincidentally, one of the year's biggest songs was Praise You In This Storm, which pulled a rare stunt of reaching #1 in February, 5 months after its debut, and spent 5 nonconsecutive months at #1. That'd normally seem enough to guarantee it #1 for the year, but no, in an even rarer twist, a song debuted at #1 in August and stayed #1 for the rest of the year, A Better Way. Though in 2006, it spent 1 week less at #1 than Praise You In This Storm, its debuting at #1 secured its hold there, amidst a wild rest of the chart.

The storminess on my chart began when former number ones by Daniel Bedingfield and NewSong plunged in February and April. They managed to rebound a bit and steady for a little bit, but then they fell entirely off by July. Feeling the dissolving of a once close friendship prompted the songs' spiral downward, and thus the end of the "love songs era" (haha), a period of about 2 years, where a song that reminded me of my friend (how much I had loved her as a friend), reigned on top. As that era was concluding, however, a new love songs era was starting, that of songs which remind me of God's love and pulled me closer to Him. Praise You In This Storm was the first of those songs, and then several more joined in late spring and early summer, such as:

Also, in yet another rare move, a few songs in their third year charting joined those that have bolstered my faith or kept me going in spiritually tough times, Walk By Faith and More. Throughout the year, I questioned God heavily, about Him personally, about His love for us, and other issues. The storminess of my chart especially in April through August, reflects the storminess I endured personally. After I discovered A Better Way, however, my wild spiritual life gradually calmed down—the storm subsided. Overall, despite everything, this was one of the best years I've had so far, musically and personally. There's a reason for everything that happens, a reason for everything we go through in life. And I believe God is always around to help us through anything, though not always visibly as we'd probably like to expect, but sometimes (if not often) invisibly, like through music.

~Anthony
July 29, 2007

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