Comments on: Find New Popular Worship Songs

By: Al Sr.

Al Sr. — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:59:00 +0000

Very happy to see that my 2 favourites are in the top 50 chart “Amasing Grace” and “Blesed be the Lord”, especially when sang by you

By: PWArchive.com Top Songs List at Chris From Canada

PWArchive.com Top Songs List at Chris From Canada — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:35:22 +0000

[...] Billy posted about this last week and I thought I’d pass it along as well. [...]

By: Billy Chia

Billy Chia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:11:17 +0000

Alex,
I do have to agree man, some Ajax and shiny buttons would add to the web 2.0ness of it.

By: Jeff M. Miller

Jeff M. Miller — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:36:05 +0000

Great post Billy. I have pwarchive in my bookmarks toolbar, and I can’t think of a week I don’t use it as a resource.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

By: alex mclean

alex mclean — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:29:11 +0000

when I think of web 2.0 I think of the look and feel, not the community based er whatever it is that I can’t think of the right words to sound web 2.0…

When I think of web 2.0 I think of a lot of ajax, shiny buttons, orange & blue and lots of CSS.

imho

By: Daniel Tomlinson

Daniel Tomlinson — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:07:33 +0000

Thanks for all that info Billy. I love getting educated about worship because I wouldn’t mind learning to play the guitar well enough to lead a small group in worship.

I was also gazing at all the blog links to the right, and as I scanned down to “other great blogs” it really convicted me to put more pride into mine. Thanks bro.

How’s the job search?

By: brunettekoala

brunettekoala — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:10:37 +0000

PW archive was one of my first discoveries when i started leading worship as a student…my main use for it tended to be for transposing songs into a key I could sing! So many songs now are written by guys and are set in keys that are uncomfortably high for the majority of people.

Anyway, I do love PW archive…!

By: Billy Chia

Billy Chia — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:38:06 +0000

Alex,
I would beg to differ.
Web 2.0 means diverse and various things, but usually having to do with community based web environments. PW Archive doesn’t have some executive that determines the top 50. It’s determined in a very web 2.0 way. Each hit counts as a vote and the cumulative effect of all the people who visit the site determines the results. How is that not dead-on web 2.0?

By: alex mclean

alex mclean — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:28:28 +0000

That is sooooooooooooooo not web 2.0!

By: Billy Chia

Billy Chia — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:55:06 +0000

Chris,
Yeah, this site is so popular I know we all go there for chords, but I thought this post would highlight the Top 50 as another way to use the resource.

Joel,
iwillworship.com is great. Are you talking about the 1christian.net “rocking with the cross” ? Last time I checked that was a pay site. I think it’s definitely valuable to pay for professional lead sheets, but paying money to access home made chord charts doesn’t seems like a wise investment to me.

Bridget,
Yeah it is a challenge to reorchestrate songs that are designed for guitar to be played on keyboard and vice versa. Although sometimes doing so creates interesting new arrangements.

Jay,
Great Call! Playing new, popular songs is only one criteria for selecting a set list. There are many others. One of the reasons to keep adding new songs to our cannons (which can be new or old) is so that we don’t fall into the trap of playing the same songs each week. Marvelous Light has been officially banned at our youth worship due to overuse.