Top New Contemporary Hymns This Year

Most of our song lists at PraiseCharts are based on song characteristics and data from customer activity. This list is different. These are hand-selected favorites from our staff. Our team of programmers, administrators, arrangers, and designers took a moment to browse through the list of songs recently added to PraiseCharts, and pick out their favorites. No data — just pure, personal preference! These are songs that we love to sing, play, and listen to. We hope you love them as much as we do. We'll update this often. You might be surprised and find a hidden jewel.

Hymns have been written all through the ages. Thousands of these songs have stood the test of time, uniting generations in a common voice of worship. Hymns are still being written today, with an intentional focus on penning timeless melodies, multiple verses full of rich theology, and sometimes a chorus to tie the themes together. Here is a list of our most popular modern worship hymns, generally written after 1990. Who knows, maybe we'll still be singing some of these songs in the 2100s.

All of these songs worked hard to get here. To earn a spot on this list, a song has to have jumped up at least 4 positions on the charts. This is a list of top rising songs, ranked by how fast they are rising. If you like to have a finger on the pulse of worship music, bookmark this page and check back regularly. You might be surprised by what you find here.

2020 has been a wild ride. While we don't know what 2021 has in store we know that God is faithful and we can begin a new year declaring that. These songs are meant to start the year well, with the focus on Christ and the hope of new life.

Sometimes it's hard to keep up with all the new music released throughout the year. This is a list that will help you make sense of it all. Out of all the new music released in the last month, this is the best of the best. Check back often, because this list will be refreshing often. These are the top worship songs added this month.

Hymns have a way of connecting us to the faith of our fathers and mothers. Their melodies have stood the test of time, and their lyrics bring theological depth to our worship. Sometimes, the only thing lacking is a musical arrangement that fits the style of our modern times. These songs were arranged to bridge that gap. Here's a list of the top modernized hymns of worship in various arrangements and formats for your teams.  

CCLI's Top 100 is a benchmark for many Christian songwriters who are specifically writing songs for churches to sing. CCLI puts out a list of their Top 100 two times per year: once in the Fall and once in the Spring. We always like to keep an eye out for how some of the biggest worship songs in the world are trending on the CCLI Top 100 list. This is a list of a few songs that made the biggest climb based on the latest report. See also Top 100 Worship Songs from CCLI.

Straight from our arrangers to you. This list is the new release feed for all of our chord charts, sheet music, and multi tracks — everything new in one place, all hot off the press.

Contemporary hymns are not new, and not old, but somewhere in the middle. They are the perfect union of traditional words and melodies and modern music. These contemporary hymn arrangements embrace the beauty of singing these songs with believers through the ages while doing it in a new and unique way.

There's just something about reading music in classic notation that strikes a chord no chart ever could. If you want to play that new song note for note, not just chord for chord, this is the place for you. Here is a complete list of all our new sheet music.

Our newest SATB choral worship albums, with all the sheet music you need. Whether your church choir is singing together or virtually, these new choral arrangements for worship will be just what you need.