Thanks for listening to my weekly playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify. You are driving this weekly chart of total streams for current Southern Gospel singles.
The chart will always represent a running (4) week tally of total streams. If you want to find my weekly playlists, on Spotify search SGVBR and Apple Music search Southern Gospel Back Row. Here is the SGVBR weekly top 20 for the week of 05/10/24.
Thanks for listening to my weekly playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify. You are driving this weekly chart of total streams for current Southern Gospel singles.
The chart will always represent a running (4) week tally of total streams. If you want to find my weekly playlists, on Spotify search SGVBR and Apple Music search Southern Gospel Back Row. Here is the SGVBR weekly top 20 for the week of 05/03/24.
REASON FOR RANKING: The Gaither Vocal Band put together a collection of 13 songs anchored by the Larry Gatlin penned, “Make The Morning Worth The Midnight”.
FIVE BEST SONGS FROM THE ALBUM: (1) “Make The Morning Worth The Midnight”; (2) “Shine (Darker The Night, Brighter The Light)”; (3) “Revival Broke Out”; (4) “Love Em Where They Are”; (5) “May The Words Of My Mouth”.
REASON FOR RANKING: Tim Menzies provide listeners with a traditional country style. He also wrote/co-wrote every song on He Reminds Me.
FIVE BEST SONGS FROM THE ALBUM: (1) “River Of Sin”; (2) “Sanding Off The Edges”; (3) “On My Father’s Side”; (4) “What Are You Waiting For”; (5) “One More Reason”.
REASON FOR RANKING: The Chuck Wagon Gang took a bluegrass approach with Come Go With Me; while still providing listeners their traditional acoustical sound. Josh Garner also turned in the best performance of “For What Earthly Reason”, I’ve heard.
FIVE BEST SONGS FROM THE ALBUM: (1) “I Will Not Cry Today”; (2) “For What Earthly Reason”; (3) “Come Go With Me”; (4) “Our Sins Are Washed Away”; (5) “The Mighty Word Of God”.
REASON FOR RANKING: Westward Road has always brought listeners a polished, progressive Southern Gospel style.
FIVE BEST SONGS FROM THE ALBUM: (1) “Forgiven”; (2) “Up”; (3) “City Of Light”; (4) “Stone By Stone”; (5) “There Is A Cross”.
REASON FOR RANKING: Weston and Christy Hinson (Hinson Family) continue the Hinson tradition. It is no surprise Weston Hinson’s vocal closely resembles his father, the late Kenny Hinson. Sundays Never End featured 15 new songs.
FIVE BEST SONGS FROM THE ALBUM: (1) “Staying With Him”; (2) “Sundays Never End”; (3) “I Got My Hallelujah Back”; (4) “He Knows The Way Home”; (5) “This Ship’s Not Going Down”.
Today starts the voting for the final two categories in the 10th annual Southern Gospel Views from the Back Row honors; album and video of the year.
ALL readers of this blog can participate in the voting. ALL readers are allowed one vote per day. If anyone attempts to vote more than once per day, the polling system will blacklist your IP address and you will be disqualified from voting in that category.
The polls for these three categories will close on Saturday 02/24/24 at 11:59pm. Click the link on each nominee to see an audio/video of the nominees.
It is time to announce the nominees for the 10th Annual Southern Gospel Views from the Back Row Honors. I went through all the Southern Gospel album’s released in 2023 and scoured through the weekly streaming top 20 charts (January to December) to determine what I considered to be the five nominees to best represent each of the 17 categories.
AND THE NOMINEES ARE:
Recorded Song of the Year (song recorded on a 2023 album, did not have to be a radio single)
Single/Streaming Song of the Year (had to be on the weekly streaming top 20 chart from January to December 2023)
Song Cover of the Year (a previously recorded song covered in 2023 via album or single)
Songwriter
Album of the Year (had to be a 2023 release)
Video (concept video released in 2023)
Artist – Breakthrough (New)
Artist – Duo/Trio (no more than 3 vocalists)
Artist – Mixed Group (at least 4 vocalists)
Artist – Quartet
Artist – Soloist
Vocalist – Alto
Vocalist – Baritone
Vocalist – Bass
Vocalist – Lead
Vocalist – Soprano
Vocalist – Tenor
So do the nominees represent the best of 2023? Were there any snubs? The voting rounds will begin Tuesday (01/30/24).
Thanks for listening to my weekly playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify. You are driving this weekly chart of total streams for current Southern Gospel singles.
The chart will always represent a running (4) week tally of total streams. If you want to find my weekly playlists, on Spotify search SGVBR and Apple Music search Southern Gospel Back Row. Here is the SGVBR weekly top 20 for the week of 10/20/23.
Thanks for listening to my weekly playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify. You are driving this weekly chart of total streams for current Southern Gospel singles.
The chart will always represent a running (4) week tally of total streams. If you want to find my weekly playlists, on Spotify search SGVBR and Apple Music search Southern Gospel Back Row. Here is the SGVBR weekly top 20 for the week of 10/13/23.
Thanks for listening to my weekly playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify. You are driving this weekly chart of total streams for current Southern Gospel singles.
The chart will always represent a running (4) week tally of total streams. If you want to find my weekly playlists, on Spotify search SGVBR and Apple Music search Southern Gospel Back Row. Here is the SGVBR weekly top 20 for the week of 10/06/23.
Southern Gospel Views From The Back Row 