[gtrdave]

Inspired by another thread, here's the top 25 songs according to CCLI.

1.How Great Is Our God
2.Here I Am To Worship
3.Blessed Be Your Name
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart
5.Shout To The Lord
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship
8.You Are My King
9.Forever
10.Holy Is The Lord
11.God Of Wonders
12.Breathe
13.We Fall Down
14.You Are My All In All
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise
16.The Heart Of Worship
17.Trading My Sorrows
18.Above All
19.Beautiful One
20.How Great Thou Art
21.Better Is One Day
22.Draw Me Close
23.Lord Reign In Me
24.The Wonderful Cross
25.Indescribable

How many are you doing? How many are in "regular rotation"? How many have you done but are long since forgotten?

For us, we haven't done "Blessed be Your Name", "Lord I lift Your Name on High", "God of Wonders", "You are my All in All", "Above All", or "The Wonderful Cross" in over a year or more.
We've never done (in my 2+ years) "The Heart of Worship", "Beautiful One", "Draw Me Close" and "Indescribable" and I don't think I'm familiar with "You are worthy of my Praise" unless it has an alt. title.
The rest are all occasionally done, maybe once every 6 months or so.

[Joe F]

We're doing about 80% of them. They are all still pretty new to us as just 2 short years ago, our church was a traditional hymn church. The previous worship leader exclusively used CCLI's Song Select to choose music from. I took over late last year. Right or wrong, I have not been relying on it that much as some of the songs that I've had the best results with aren't even in the CCLI top 100.

"You're worthy of my Praise" is also known as "I will Worship".

It's the one with the echos

I will worship (Echo) I will worship
With all of my heart (Echo) With all of my heart
And I will praise You (Echo) I will praise You
With all of my strenght (Echo) All my strenght.

Etc etc...

[thesteve]

Bold - songs we do in regular/semi-regular rotation
underlined - songs I know, but my church has not done in the last year (we picked up a new worship leader about a year ago)
italics - songs that we have dropped from rotation
normal - songs I don't know.

1.How Great Is Our God
2.Here I Am To Worship
3.Blessed Be Your Name
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart
5.Shout To The Lord (very sparingly)
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship
8.You Are My King
9.Forever
10.Holy Is The Lord
11.God Of Wonders
12.Breathe (very sparingly)
13.We Fall Down
14.You Are My All In All
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise
16.The Heart Of Worship
17.Trading My Sorrows
18.Above All
19.Beautiful One
20.How Great Thou Art
21.Better Is One Day
22.Draw Me Close
23.Lord Reign In Me
24.The Wonderful Cross
25.Indescribable
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Now of those underlined, I'd like for us to add the following to rotation.
3.Blessed Be Your Name
11.God Of Wonders (sparingly)
16.The Heart Of Worship (sparingly)
19.Beautiful One
21.Better Is One Day
24.The Wonderful Cross
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Of those bolded (in current rotation) the songs I wouldn't mind dropping entirely, or at least using them much less than we do:
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship
12.Breathe
14.You Are My All In All
22.Draw Me Close
23.Lord Reign In Me

[gtrdave]

Originally Posted by Joe F

"You're worthy of my Praise" is also known as "I will Worship".

Yes, yes, now I know which song, thank you.

I think we did that a few weeks ago. It's another 'once in a while'er.

[Jo1967]

We do 19 or 20 of these 25. However, we have between 90-100 songs in our "library" right now, so I pretty much just keep adding on. We do them all at one point or another in the year, but do not repeat very often unless specifically requested. There are the top 10 or so that really minister to folks hearts in our church and those get played a lot more often. Lately, that has been "How Can I Keep From Singing Your Praise". I guess we do simpler songs.

[Joe F]

I forgot to mention, and I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but one of the first things I did when I took over as Worship Leader was put "Lord I Lift Your Name on High" on hiatus until further notice with no ETA for return. The first year our church went contemporary, the previous leader used it like every three weeks. I received a round of applause from the entire praise team when I made the announcement..

[thesteve]

Originally Posted by Joe F

I forgot to mention, and I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but one of the first things I did when I took over as Worship Leader was put "Lord I Lift Your Name on High" on hiatus until further notice with no ETA for return. The first year our church went contemporary, the previous leader used it like every three weeks. I received a round of applause from the entire praise team when I made the announcement..

I think every worship team goes through a time where they have a song like that...nothing to be ashamed of there.

[trpullen]

1.How Great Is Our God - retired to low rotation
2.Here I Am To Worship - retired to low rotation
3.Blessed Be Your Name - heavy
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart - retired to low rotation
5.Shout To The Lord - retired to low rotation
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High - retired to low rotation
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship - retired to low rotation
8.You Are My King - retired to low rotation
9.Forever - retired to low rotation
10.Holy Is The Lord - retired to low rotation
11.God Of Wonders - retired
12.Breathe - never
13.We Fall Down - never
14.You Are My All In All - retired to low rotation
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise - nope
16.The Heart Of Worship - nope
17.Trading My Sorrows - retired to low rotation
18.Above All - nope
19.Beautiful One - heavy
20.How Great Thou Art - nope
21.Better Is One Day - nope
22.Draw Me Close - nope
23.Lord Reign In Me - retired to low rotation
24.The Wonderful Cross - retired
25.Indescribable - retired

[Tarby777]

Here in England, it seems we're much using much the same stuff...

Frequent:
1.How Great Is Our God
2.Here I Am To Worship
3.Blessed Be Your Name
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart
9.Forever
10.Holy Is The Lord
16.The Heart Of Worship
18.Above All
19.Beautiful One

Occasional:
5.Shout To The Lord
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship
20.How Great Thou Art
21.Better Is One Day
25.Indescribable

Never heard of them:
8.You Are My King
11.God Of Wonders
12.Breathe
13.We Fall Down
14.You Are My All In All
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise
17.Trading My Sorrows
22.Draw Me Close
23.Lord Reign In Me
24.The Wonderful Cross

There's some good stuff coming out of Abundant Life Church in Bradford, England these days - they're one of our largest churches, very much modelled on Hillsongs. I plan to introduce some of their stuff soon...

Cheers,
Tarby

[Jay Tea]

We do these with some regularity

1.How Great Is Our God
2.Here I Am To Worship
3.Blessed Be Your Name
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart
5.Shout To The Lord
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship
8.You Are My King
9.Forever
11.God Of Wonders
12.Breathe
14.You Are My All In All
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise
20.How Great Thou Art
23.Lord Reign In Me
24.The Wonderful Cross

[bobthecockroach]

It amazes me that people still use Shout To The Lord in regular rotation, or All In All for that matter. Both are great songs, but I always thought people were more into novelty.

[Leboman]

Originally Posted by gtrdave

Inspired by another thread, here's the top 25 songs according to CCLI.

1.How Great Is Our God
2.Here I Am To Worship
3.Blessed Be Your Name
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart
5.Shout To The Lord
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship
8.You Are My King
9.Forever
10.Holy Is The Lord
11.God Of Wonders
12.Breathe
13.We Fall Down
14.You Are My All In All
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise
16.The Heart Of Worship
17.Trading My Sorrows
18.Above All
19.Beautiful One
20.How Great Thou Art
21.Better Is One Day
22.Draw Me Close
23.Lord Reign In Me
24.The Wonderful Cross
25.Indescribable

How many are you doing? How many are in "regular rotation"? How many have you done but are long since forgotten?

For us, we haven't done "Blessed be Your Name", "Lord I lift Your Name on High", "God of Wonders", "You are my All in All", "Above All", or "The Wonderful Cross" in over a year or more.
We've never done (in my 2+ years) "The Heart of Worship", "Beautiful One", "Draw Me Close" and "Indescribable" and I don't think I'm familiar with "You are worthy of my Praise" unless it has an alt. title.
The rest are all occasionally done, maybe once every 6 months or so.

The church I just left was doing none of those...with the exception of How Great Thou Art.

[psalm63adam]

1.How Great Is Our God - regular rotation
2.Here I Am To Worship - low rotation
3.Blessed Be Your Name - regular rotation
4.Open The Eyes Of My Heart - no rotation
5.Shout To The Lord - no rotation
6.Lord I Lift Your Name On High - no rotation
7.Come Now Is The Time To Worship - no rotation
8.You Are My King - low rotation
9.Forever - low rotation
10.Holy Is The Lord - regular rotation
11.God Of Wonders - low rotation
12.Breathe - no rotation
13.We Fall Down - no rotation
14.You Are My All In All - no rotation
15.You're Worthy Of My Praise - low rotation
16.The Heart Of Worship - very low rotation
17.Trading My Sorrows - no rotation
18.Above All - no rotation
19.Beautiful One - low rotation
20.How Great Thou Art - no rotation
21.Better Is One Day - very low rotation
22.Draw Me Close - no rotation
23.Lord Reign In Me - no rotation
24.The Wonderful Cross - once a year or so
25.Indescribable - low rotation

[Joe F]

Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

It amazes me that people still use Shout To The Lord in regular rotation, or All In All for that matter. Both are great songs, but I always thought people were more into novelty.

LOL! I could barely handle "Shout To the Lord" anymore after so many many many years. It remains ever popular with the older (40+) folks however so I put it in 2 or 3 times a year. Since I took it out of frequent rotation, it's become more enjoyable. It still gets a great response and lots of hands in the air. I've come to realize that like classic rock, some of these oldies are going to be around forever until everyone that loves them has gone home to sing with the saints and angels.

Freebird!!!!!

[Jay Tea]

Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

It amazes me that people still use Shout To The Lord in regular rotation, or All In All for that matter. Both are great songs, but I always thought people were more into novelty.

I think CGR is more into the novelty than the American church in general--I was actually really surprised that the top 3 songs are as new as they are. I also think it depends on how much you beat those songs into the ground when they were new. Once we've introduced a song to the congregation (often 3-4 straight weeks, and maybe a follow-up a few weeks later), we'll back way off, and "regular rotation" becomes 4-6 times a year, probably.