The year 2020 was a crazy year for everyone in the world, but despite all that has been going on, we had incredible growth here at WorshipReady in chord chart download activity! Activity grew over 40% compared 2019! While we are all very eager to leave 2020 behind and move into a new year, let's first take a look back at the Top 50 listing from WorshipReady.com showing the most downloaded / imported chord charts by our subscribers throughout the entire year. This includes: downloaded charts from the website; direct imports into iPad apps OnSong, SongSheet Pro and Power Music; and imports into Planning Center Online.
Also, note that this is the first yearly top 50 listing that we have not combined charts of the same song from different artists. Each separate artist arrangement of a song is ranked separately.
* in parenthesis, see the song ranking from 2019. "NL" means the song was not in the previous year's top 50.
- The Blessing - Elevation Worship (NL)
- Graves Into Gardens - Elevation Worship (NL)
- Way Maker - Leeland (#4)
- Raise A Hallelujah - Bethel Music (#2)
- Way Maker - Sinach (#12)
- See A Victory - Elevation Worship (NL)
- Goodness Of God - Bethel Music (NL)
- Build My Life - Passion (#9)
- Great Are You Lord - All Sons & Daughters (#21)
- 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) - Matt Redman (#1)
- What A Beautiful Name - Hillsong Worship (#12)
- Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) - Hillsong UNITED (#26)
- Holy Water - We The Kingdom (NL)
- Do It Again - Elevation Worship / Elevation Collective (#15)
- Reckless Love - Cory Asbury (#8)
- RATTLE! - Elevation Worship (NL)
- Nothing Else - Cody Carnes (#49)
- Every Praise - Hezekiah Walker (#20)
- Another In The Fire - Hillsong UNITED (NL)
- This Is A Move - Brandon Lake (NL)
- King Of Glory - Todd Dulaney (#3)
- Who You Say I Am - Hillsong Worship (#7)
- God Of Revival - Bethel Music (NL)
- King Of My Heart - Bethel Music (#37)
- Break Every Chain - Jesus Culture (#18)
- Glorious Day - Passion (#27)
- How Great Is Our God - Chris Tomlin (#33)
- Ain't No Grave - Bethel Music (#13)
- King Of Kings - Hillsong Worship (NL)
- Refiner - Maverick City Music (NL)
- Good Good Father - Chris Tomlin (#29)
- O Come To The Altar - Elevation Worship (#25)
- This Is Amazing Grace - Phil Wickham (#24)
- Tremble - Mosaic MSC (#46)
- Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin (#28)
- Holy Spirit - Jesus Culture (#10)
- Your Great Name - Todd Dulaney (#5)
- Cornerstone - Hillsong Live (NL)
- In Christ Alone - Passion (#30)
- Set A Fire - Jesus Culture (NL)
- Agnus Dei - Michael W. Smith (NL)
- Lord I Need You - Passion (NL)
- Yes I Will - Vertical Worship (#32)
- Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) - Hillsong Worship (NL)
- Champion - Bethel Music (NL)
- Never Lost - Elevation Worship (NL)
- No Longer Slaves - Bethel Music (#22)
- Living In The Overflow - People & Songs (#43)
- The Blessing - Bethel Music (NL)
- Living Hope - Phil Wickham (#6)
The top 3 songs here, "The Blessing", "Graves Into Gardens" and "Way Maker" have all bounced around the top 3 month after month most of the year. Two of those weren't even in the mix last year at all. Elevation Worship's new music released in 2020 was extremely popular. There's a number of new songs for the year that made this list, but also a number of "classics" remain in this list.
At the start of each new year, we post the previous year's most downloaded charts... and each month we post a Top 10... so you can get a glimpse of what songs most other worship leaders seem to be using. Be sure to let us know if these songs are working well for you in your church! You can comment below.