Hot Christian Songs

Hot Christian Songs is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It ranks the popularity of Christian songs using the same methodology developed for the Billboard Hot 100, the magazine's flagship songs chart, by incorporating data from the sales of downloads, streaming data, and airplay across all monitored radio stations.

"Christian songs" redirects here. For music related to the Christian faith, see Christian music.

From its inception in June 2003 through November 2013, the Hot Christian Songs chart ranked the top songs only by overall audience impressions of songs played on contemporary Christian music radio stations. Beginning with the chart dated December 7, 2013, the chart follows the same methodology used for the Hot 100 to compile its rankings.^[1] The Christian Airplay chart was created in unison with the change to continue to monitor airplay of songs on Christian radio.

The current number-one song on the chart is "Praise" by Elevation Worship featuring Brandon Lake, Chris Brown and Chandler Moore.^[2]

18 songs have spent fifteen weeks or longer at number one. These are:

14 artists have spent thirty weeks or longer at number one. These are:

The longest gap between No. 1 hits on Hot Christian Songs for an artist is 7 years, 10 months, 2 days by . Their single "Where I Belong" hit No. 1 on March 10, 2012, their first time on top since "Glory Defined" on May 8, 2004.

Building 429

MercyMe holds the record gap between first and most recent No. 1 on the Hot Christian Songs over the longest period of time: 14 years, 7 months, and 22 days. The first of twenty-three weeks at No. 1 for "" by MercyMe was August 16, 2003. The last week at No. 1 for "I Can Only Imagine" was April 7, 2018, after it re-entered the charts to coincide with the release of the film of the same title.

Word of God Speak

The record for the longest wait from an artist's Hot Christian Songs debut entry to its first No. 1 belongs to , with 10 years, 2 months, 10 days between the time they first cracked the Hot Christian Songs chart with "Rebirthing" (October 28, 2006) and the first of one week at No. 1 with "Feel Invincible" (January 7, 2017).

Skillet

is the only artist to occupy the entire top 10 at once and he has done it twice.^[111]^[112]

Kanye West

Reba McEntire (age 60 years) is the oldest artist to top the chart. Her cover of "" topped the chart on February 18, 2017.

Back to God

(age 19 years) is the youngest artist to top the chart. Her song "My Jesus" topped the chart on August 14, 2021.

Anne Wilson

has the most entries on the chart without achieving a number one hit (21).^[113]

Danny Gokey

became the first male artist to replace himself at number one on the chart; Smith's cover of "Hallelujah" dethroned his cover of "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" on December 19, 2015. Carrie Underwood became the first female artist, when her John Legend collaboration of "Hallelujah" replaced her song "Favorite Time of Year" on December 26, 2021.^[114]