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Our Top 100 Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) of August 23rd, 2019

Our Charts are based on the actual number of times that a track has recently been played on the major streaming platforms. The Top 100 Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) Rank Artist - Title Change 1 The Fray - How to Save a Life +0 2 Rachel Platten - Fight Song +0 3 The Fray - You Found Me +1 4 Cory Asbury - Reckless Love +1 5 Elevation Worship - O Come to the Altar (Live) +1 6 Hillsong UNITED - Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) +1 7 Lauren Daigle - Rescue +1 8 Hillsong UNITED - Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) -1 9 Elevation Worship - Do It Again +6 10 Bethel Music, Jonathan David Helser, Melissa Helser - Raise a Hallelujah (Live) -1 11 Mosaic MSC - Tremble - Live +0 12 Lauren Daigle - Look Up Child +0 13 Hillsong UNITED - So Will I (100 Billion X) +0 14 Housefires - Build My Life +0 15 Bethel Music, Steffany Gretzinger - King of My Heart (Live) +1 16 for KING & COUNTRY - God Only Knows +1 17 Vertical Worship - Yes I Will +6 18 Chris Tomlin - Good Good Father

Background on our Top 25 / 50 / 100 charts

The large music platforms are providing us insights on how often songs/tracks have recently been played (e.g. in the past 7 / 14 / 30 days). We found a way to combine all of these inputs for many thousands of tracks, and (somewhat to our surprise) discovered that the tracks people are frequently listening to significantly differ from Billboard (& similar) charts. We see changes in listening behavior around certain seasons that are not reflected in the major charts... and that has fueled the idea that we could create a unique chart. We look at ALL music within a specific genre, regardless whether it is 10 years old, or has just been released. If the music is being listened to, then the number of recent plays are being considered towards a listing in our charts. In our charts, you may even see older favorites come back into the top rankings. As previously said, all that counts is the music that people are currently listening to. We now have 6 charts. Four charts for th