Here are the top 25 worship songs sung congregationally in the United States in February according to CCLI. They have a really nice tool where you can choose from different countries and see what songs are being sung the most.
| Report Period 409 – United States | |||
| RANK | SONG TITLE | AUTHOR/S | CCLI # |
| 1 | Mighty To Save | Fielding, BenMorgan, Reuben | 4591782 |
| 2 | How Great Is Our God | Tomlin, ChrisReeves, JesseCash, Ed | 4348399 |
| 3 | Blessed Be Your Name | Redman, BethRedman, Matt | 3798438 |
| 4 | Here I Am To Worship | Hughes, Tim | 3266032 |
| 5 | Everlasting God | Brown, BrentonRiley, Ken | 4556538 |
| 6 | Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) | Tomlin, ChrisGiglio, LouieNewton, John | 4768151 |
| 7 | Open The Eyes Of My Heart | Baloche, Paul | 2298355 |
| 8 | Your Grace Is Enough | Maher, Matt | 4477026 |
| 9 | Jesus Messiah | Tomlin, ChrisCarson, DanielReeves, JesseCash, Ed | 5183443 |
| 10 | Holy Is The Lord | Tomlin, ChrisGiglio, Louie | 4158039 |
| 11 | Shout To The Lord | Zschech, Darlene | 1406918 |
| 12 | Forever | Tomlin, Chris | 3148428 |
| 13 | You Are My King | Foote, Billy | 2456623 |
| 14 | Come Now Is The Time To Worship | Doerksen, Brian | 2430948 |
| 15 | Revelation Song | Riddle, Jennie Lee | 4447960 |
| 16 | In Christ Alone | Townend, StuartGetty, Keith | 3350395 |
| 17 | Lord I Lift Your Name On High | Founds, Rick | 117947 |
| 18 | Hosanna (Praise Is Rising) | Baloche, PaulBrown, Brenton | 4662491 |
| 19 | God Of Wonders | Byrd, MarcHindalong, Steve | 3118757 |
| 20 | We Fall Down | Tomlin, Chris | 2437367 |
| 21 | Beautiful One | Hughes, Tim | 3915912 |
| 22 | From The Inside Out | Houston, Joel | 4705176 |
| 23 | The Heart Of Worship | Redman, Matt | 2296522 |
| 24 | You Are My All In All | Jernigan, Dennis | 825356 |
| 25 | Days Of Elijah | Mark, Robin | 1537904 |
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the roof of our new building might collapse if we sang any of those. *sigh*
Well, maybe not All in All – at a youth devo.
matt, there must be some mistake. where is “get right, church?” and what about that song, “if i don’t… get to heaven?” who did this study anyway? have they ever been to church?
Do all songs get reported or just those still under copyright?
I guess older songs still get sung, but just not as often. I’ll confess to being a music traditionalist. There’s a reason why, out of the hundreds of songs he wrote, certain Isaac Watts songs have stood the test of time.
Should we lose those songs and some like them, we will be much the poorer. The depth of music and quality of lyrics of trendy songs just don’t stand up. (But I much prefer today’s songs to the toe-tappers of the early 20th century!)
Grace and peace,
Tim Archer
Randy Harris described that phenomenon, Tim. He says that his generation desires answers, while the generation he teaches desires an experience of God.
And just think how many congregations had to listen to all of Watts’ less-than-spectacular songs for years and years before they finally died away.
Yeah, Nick, though that’s kind of the point. So much of what is popular today will be rightly rejected tomorrow.
As for me, I’d like to sing “Here I Am To Worship” and “Lord We Come Before Thee Now.”
There’s a place for modern literature, but I’m glad my kids still read Shakespeare in school.
great songs
but I too, would hate to give up old ones or new ones, slow ones for fast ones, edifying or praise, etc.
I like a mix of the old & new too. Our congregation loves to learn new songs (or at least a segment of it does), but we also sing a lot of older songs. I would have thought most congregations were like that, so I’m surprised that the list only contains newer songs.
I would have thought the Revelation Song would have been a little higher.
Interesting info here.
These CCLI folks are false teachers.
Since the 1st century, the church has always sang praises. But one particular song was sung by the 1st century church, and we still sing it today. It is sung in every Church Of Christ, every week, at every church service (if they are sound). Sang correctly, the final verse is sang extremely loud, bordering on screaming. The liberal churches often take the final chorus and sing it though once more, very slow, but speeding as you go to a crescendo. Most refer to this change as the “apostate re-mix”.
These CCLI folks need to get out of their cubicles and learn that real songs don’t have titles…they are simply known by an alpha-numeric call sign.
Of course, I am speaking of the most legendary COC song of all time: 728B!
We sing almost all of these. But we do sing some of the old hymns too. Proportion is probably 9 new to 1 traditional. it works for us!
When will CCLI next publish their list of Top 25 Acapella songs. ‘Cos some of these just don’t work without the extended guitar riff or drum solo while everyone catches their breath. Not even with Aaaah/Ooooh, or vocal percussion!!
You never have heard Tony Brown in action?