In whatever setting, contemporary hymns are powerful and comforting declarations of the Gospel. In a year that flipped everyone head-over-heals, these top 100 contemporary hymns were a constant reminder of the promises of God.

While we try desperately to forget about the bedazzled jeans and airbrushed tees of the early 2000s, the music throughout the decade should never be forgotten. Here are some of the most popular worship songs that defined the 2000s.

Tried and true. Call them nostalgic, old, or classic, these songs have stood the test of time at PraiseCharts. Take a look through some of the most memorable worship songs of all time.

We ask to be surrounded, and God sends His mighty waters to immerse us in love. This is our access, and this is our acceptance. It is the heavenly revival of river beds gone dry, awakening dried land through the flowing waters of new life. It is God’s greatest desire to use us in this mission for renewal, and as He floods the earth with His presence, He appoints His children as the vessels of His truth. Here is a list of songs focusing on flooding. 

Most of the time when we see songs trending, they have been released in the last few months. This is a list of exceptions. These songs are rising on the charts and released in the 90s and 2000s. These are classics and throwbacks that are making a comeback. Take a look at these old worship songs that are still trending.

Nostalgic and classic -- these contemporary worship songs have stood the test of time. Their melodies and chord progressions trigger memories of how the Spirit of God has moved throughout the decades. Slip one of these great classics into your setlist, and you'll be sure to capture the hearts of worshippers from a generation that has been faithful since the good old days. Here is a list of the most popular old Christian worship songs.

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.

Even in the chaos, even in the confusion, we can be confident that God continues to overcome. There is safety in His stronghold, hope in His triumph, and power in His foundation. Our confidence in God is what activates the restoration of peace in our hearts. He delivers us from darkness, and He holds us through the transformation of lifting ourselves completely towards Him. Here is a list of songs focusing on the confidence we have in God.

Songs like How Firm a Foundation, Ancient Words and Every Promise Of Your Word remind us that meditating on the truths of the scripture firmly ground us and help us to live out the gospel in our daily lives. The songs in this list talk about the Bible and demonstrate our gratefulness for and our need and reliance on His Word.

Living Hope and King of Kings found a comfortable home at the top of our modern hymn lists during 2020. The modern hymns in this list were made to tell the Gospel story in a way that an entire congregation can sing together, declaring the Gospel to each other and the world! Sing these amazing anthems with your church in the years to come!

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.

The 2010s saw some worship music powerhouses take the stage and change the sound of worship music forever. Take a look through the songs that defined the decade, this is a list of the most popular worship songs that made their mark in the 2010s.

For every season cast with fear, God reminds us that His faithfulness walks beside us, within us, and before our doubt. Out of the ashes rises a peace meant for each and every weary soul, established by the confidence of His steady hand. Fear does not debilitate us, instead, it is the catalyst to move God’s people forward in their faith. Here is a list of songs meant to soak in the places where fear takes hold of your life.

This Valentine's Day weekend try one of these worshipful songs about love and adoration for your worship set! Valentine's Day isn't just a couples holiday, but a day to celebrate love and relationship. We love Him because He first loved us, and we think that's something worth singing about!

Let's be honest, you want your band to sound great. Beyond just the chords, our lead sheets and piano/vocal charts give you a clear road map to follow. Establish a tempo, find the groove, play the right chords, and sing the melody with the right kind of harmony. Everything comes together when the members of your band are all on same page. We take pride in our charts so that you can play with confidence, sound amazing, and truly lead your congregation in life-changing worship.

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.

When we sing about God's grace and we believe the truth deep in our hearts, it affects our lives. We live with more compassion. We extend more mercy. We feel more empathy. This is why worship songs about grace and mercy are so important to the church. Every day and every week, through song and word, we must remind ourselves about the nature of God who is full of grace. What we receive from God, we extend to others. This is the full cycle of worship.

In Christ we have freedom. Free from the power of sin; free from the bondage of our past; free to walk by the Spirit in freedom, free to be content in whatever situation we find ourselves, free to find healing and deliverance in our Savior. And in all these things, this freedom offers hope and glorifies God. Here is a list of songs focusing on freedom.

Whether for Easter, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, or any other day throughout the year, singing about our salvation is a powerful reminder of the gift given to us in Christ! "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." (Eph. 2:8-9) Download everything you need to lead these songs of salvation with your worship band!

God is good, all the time. It is not just a catchphrase. It is truth, even when we don't understand it. When we have trouble hearing from God, when He feels far away, when we look around and we can't understand, God is still good. His goodness is just as true when we have blessings to celebrate as when we have tears to shed. Here is a list of songs that speak of the goodness of God. All the time, God is good.

Songs about gratitude reflect on our thankfulness and appreciation for what God does and continues to do. Our gratitude is our testimony that proclaims a personal Father, abundant in generosity, goodness, and grace. Here is a list of songs focusing on gratitude.

God’s message is grounded in His promise of forever, springing forth a sense of hope that is eternal. Through this, we are met with the everlasting and endless glory of God. He is steadfast; beginning to end. As the King of forever, all praises belong to Him forever. Here is a list of songs focused on this promise of eternity.

These are the best slow worship ballads with a steady beat in 4/4. These are powerful songs well suited for times of intimate worship and prayer.

“In Christ alone my hope is found, he is my light, my strength, my song.” These words from Keith Getty and Stuart Townsend echo deep theological truths. Yet often we need to be reminded of the hope we have, as it is easy to get distracted by daily activiities, challenges and hard times. Here is a list of songs that will encourage and offer assurance of the hope we have.

There's a time and a place for the huge, upbeat, wall-shaking worship songs. But when things slow down and worship becomes intimate and quiet, a different kind of song is needed. This is a list of beautiful worship ballads for the quiet times.

Passion Week (Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2021) begins with Palm Sunday and includes Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. This week is a solemn week where we remember the pain of loss and hopelessness felt without Christ. We remember this with the knowledge and expectation of the brilliance, glory, and victory of the resurrection on Easter Sunday!

The cross represents the significant sacrifice Jesus made for all of mankind. He took our place, bearing our debt, paying our wages of sin so that we do not have to bear the nail scars but instead can have life everlasting. Here is a compiled list of songs that are centered around the cross.

Dawn on Easter Sunday is symbolic of new life and pureness through the resurrection! So whether you are online, in a church, or outside for your sunrise Easter service, these songs are perfect for celebrating the empty grave a capella, acoustic, or with a full band! Get all the sheet music and chord charts you need here!

Not everybody can play and sing by ear. These charts help take out the guesswork for your vocalists and piano player - as long as they can read music! Even if you don't take these charts on stage for live worship, they are a great resource during rehearsals to help solidify what everyone should play and sing in order to come out with a great sound in the end.

Most worship songs can be led by male or female, but some songs seem to work really well with a male voice. Here is a list of worship songs where the original recording was sung by a male. If you are a male looking for a song to fit your unique vocal range, this is the list for you.

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.

From the throne to the dirt, the cross bears the burdens of our sin. The crucifixion allowed Jesus to reach through darkness and shine across the earth, a reckoning that tore the veil between death and eternity. It captures deep pain and agony as evidence for an even deeper act of love. Here is a list of songs focusing on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

With all this new worship music coming out every week, choirs are more important than ever. Whether your style is traditional, contemporary, or charismatic, a worship choir puts the focus on people who want to actively lead worship -- with their voices and their faces. We have made sure that all the best worship songs have choir sheets with parts to sing for soprano, alto, bass, and tenor voices. If you can make room on your team for a choir, (or even just want to break into parts) these worship anthems will raise the roof in your church!

In 2020, many churches grew to rely on multi-tracks in their worship services. With limitations on group sizes, filling the gaps in the band with multi-tracks became more useful than ever. This is a list of the top 100 multi-track downloads from 2020. Sing one of these with your church this weekend!

Playing a song note-for-note live has always been difficult. But playing a song note-for-note on a recording is a whole different beast. As churches switched gears in March, moving their services online, we watched as these piano/vocal sheets began to trend. Throughout all of 2020, these were the top piano/vocal songs downloaded from PraiseCharts. We don't yet know what 2021 holds, but we are excited to learn even more wonderful worship songs note-for-note.

We worship a risen Savior! The triumphant victory of the crucified Savior over the grave is something Christians should celebrate all year long, not just at Easter that we may know Him and the power of His resurrection (Phil 3:10.) Here is a list of top songs themed around the Resurrection.

Download sheet music & audio tracks for your Ash Wednesday church worship services, including traditional, contemporary, modern Christian songs & hymns. We have chords, piano sheets, vocal sheets, orchestrations & multi-tracks. Ash Wednesday (Feb 17, 2021) marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. Find more Christian worship songs for Easter.

Download sheet music & audio tracks for your Easter Sunday church worship services, including traditional, contemporary, modern Christian songs & hymns. We have chords, piano sheets, vocal sheets, orchestrations, multi tracks & more. Easter Sunday is the day of celebration of the hope and glory as Christ has risen. Find more Christian worship songs for Easter.

Download sheet music & audio tracks for your Good Friday church worship services, including traditional, contemporary, modern Christian songs & hymns. We have chords, piano sheets, vocal sheets, orchestrations & multi-tracks. Good Friday - A crown of thorns, a cross and crucifixion, death, darkness, a torn veil, a tomb, separation... these words evoke strong emotions, but are the linchpin to our salvation, for as Hebrews tells us, "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." Here is a list of songs for commemorating Good Friday. Find more Christian worship songs for Easter.

Looking back at 2019, the world seemed like it was in various forms of chaos. Brexit, fires in the Amazon, the impeachment trials, how could things get worse? Well, you know the story, but there is so much more to remember in 2019, a year that brought us a host of worship songs that we will be singing for years to come. Here are some of the most popular worship songs in 2019.

2018 was the year of wildfires in California, the Royal Wedding of Harry and Meghan, #MeToo, and the death of Aretha Franklin. The world was bracing itself for even more change in the years ahead. But we also remember 2018 as a year that brought some incredible songs of worship. These are the most popular worship songs from 2018.

Download sheet music & audio tracks for your Maundy Thursday church worship services, including traditional, contemporary, modern Christian songs & hymns. We have chords, piano sheets, vocal sheets, orchestrations & multi-tracks. Maundy Thursday is the Last Supper where Jesus & the disciples celebrated the Passover. Find more Christian worship songs for Easter.

Download sheet music & audio tracks for your Lent church worship services, including traditional, contemporary, modern Christian songs & hymns. We have chords, piano sheets, vocal sheets, orchestrations & multi-tracks. Lent is a time to focus on themes of prayer, repentance, reflection, & renewal (Feb 17 to April 3). Find more Christian worship songs for Easter.

There is nothing worse than trying to run a worship practice with inaccurate and unclear charts. We take time to pour over the details of the best worship song recordings, measure for measure. Every beat matters. Every chord matters. Every lyric matters. If we find a mistake (we admit it, it happens), we fix it immediately. At the end of the day, we want your band members to feel confident and sound amazing so that you can function together as a team that leads a life-changing worship ministry.

These are the top worship songs this month. This list changes daily based on sales and downloads over the last 28 days. The songs at the top of this list reflect the most current trends in worship music worldwide, so check back regularly and watch these trends day by day.

Holy Week (Mar 28 - Apr 3, 2021) begins with Palm Sunday and includes Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. As we focus on the story of Holy Week we remember the dark before the dawn of the resurrection, and the journey to the cross. This reminds us that even though things seem lost, Christ has won!

This list tracks the most popular worship songs overall, dating back exactly 365 days from today. Only the best of the best will ever make it into this list. Watch these trends closely to stay in tune with songs that churches all over the world are singing on a regular basis.

It's hard to believe we are already a quarter of the way through 2021! Take a look at the trends of the year and see what churches all over the world are singing! Download the sheet music to join with churches around the globe in singing praises to our God! We update this list every week, so check back often.

Download Christian Sheet Music for Oboe. Explore chord charts, sheet music and orchestrations for Christian worship songs to suit Oboe.

We have hundreds of thousands of musicians representing thousands of churches from all over the world. This list gets updated hourly based on all their activity, tracking the top downloaded worship songs in the last week. Check back regularly, because when new songs hit the airwaves, you'll be able to spot the top trending new worship songs very quickly.

We take pride in the precision of our chord charts so that your musicians can sound like a unified band. We put the right chords over the right words, arranged in sections that follow the original recording, measure for measure. Plus, if you want to make any adjustments, you can edit them right inside the site. Your edits will be available by default any time you access the same song in the future! Musicians download our chord charts more than any other product because they are accurate, clear and editable. Here is a list of our top downloaded chord charts for your praise and worship band!

The grave is empty! The King is alive! This Easter Sunday sing about the gift of forgiveness and the power over sin and death that Easter signifies. This is a list of songs about the cross, the resurrection, new life, and much more. Get all the sheet music and chord charts you need for this Easter season today so that you can focus on what really matters in worship!

2020 is a year that will go down in history. The way we worship and the way we do church was redefined for Christians all over the world. Even so, there have been some incredible new worship songs written in 2020, including The Blessing (Kari Jobe), Graves Into Gardens (Elevation Worship), and Battle Belongs (Phil Wickham). Here is a complete list of the most popular worship songs in 2020.

2014 was the year of the Sochi Olympics, the Polar Vortex, the Annexation of the Crimea, and the disappearance of flight MH370. It was also the year of Oceans (Where Feet May Fail), Forever, and This Is Amazing Grace. Take a look through this list of top 100 worship songs from 2014 and reminisce a little bit.

Download sheet music & audio tracks for your Resurrection Sunday church worship services, including traditional, contemporary, modern Christian songs & hymns. We have chords, piano sheets, vocal sheets, orchestrations, multi-tracks, & more. Resurrection Sunday is the day the stone was rolled away and the grave is empty! Find more Christian worship songs for Easter.

2015 was the year of the Paris Attacks, the earthquake in Nepal, the Dress that broke the internet, and the election of Justin Trudeau. It was also the year of Because He Lives and so many others. Here's a complete list of the most popular worship songs in 2015.

For most of 2020 worship bands looked different. Whether your band was playing live, recording together, or recording each part from home in your living rooms, chord charts were still a vital part of learning songs and leading worship. These are the top chord charts downloaded from PraiseCharts in 2020.

We arrange all of our top songs in four-part harmony (SATB) so that your choir can lead the way when it is time to worship at church. And besides, people look best in choir robes. We know this, and you know this. Here is a list of our top downloaded choir sheets. You can bet that all the worship songs that show up at the top of this list are well suited for choir.

These are the best worship songs in a 4/4 time signature.

There is nothing like leading worship with the powerful voices of a worship choir behind you. We have arranged all the top worship songs for your choir, orchestra, and rhythm section. Plus, if you have any musicians missing, we have Multi-Tracks to fill in the gaps. Best of all, we've extracted all of the four-part SATB vocals into their own product that we call a Choir Sheet. This list represents the most popular Choir Sheets we have today. In other words, these are the songs that demonstrate a strong connection to worship choirs all over the world. Enjoy the list and check back often to see how it shifts over time!

Download Christian Sheet Music for Cello. Explore chord charts, sheet music and orchestrations for Christian worship songs to suit Cellos.

Of all the hundreds of song lists we have at PraiseCharts, this is the benchmark. This is the most comprehensive and overarching list we have. Our algorithm pulls in the most popular songs on our website, scoring them on a trending scale to help you find new songs and re-discover old ones. Bookmark this list and check back daily because these songs are always changing.

Download Christian Sheet Music for Harp. Explore chord charts, sheet music and orchestrations for Christian worship songs to suit Harps.

Download Christian Sheet Music for Strings. Explore chord charts, sheet music and orchestrations for Christian worship songs to suit String Instruments.

Through 2020, choirs have had to improvise and adapt. And you did. These were the songs you sang while you figured out just how to sing together. This is a list of the top 100 SATB choir sheets downloaded from PraiseCharts in 2020.

"Where there's a will, there's a way" should be the motto for orchestrations in 2020. Orchestras all over the world found ways to play together safely, even piecing together video and audio to create virtual orchestras. While we all look forward to the day when we can play together again, we can look back and appreciate the innovation of ensembles through the memory of the songs we played. These are the top orchestrations of 2020.

Thanksgiving is an essential season in the Christian year, where churches and families come together to focus on the goodness of God. Here is a list of contemporary Christian praise songs that you can use to plan your worship services and express thanksgiving to God.

Download Christian Sheet Music for Viola. Explore chord charts, sheet music and orchestrations for Christian worship songs to suit Viola.

Singing worship songs together in a small group is a much different experience than singing at church or in a concert venue. In a small group, you don't have the luxury of a band, microphones, backing tracks, drums, electric guitars, and a highly trained worship team. In fact, you're lucky if you can find one person who plays the guitar! Here is a list of worship songs that are popular, contemporary, easy to play, and easy to sing. They should be perfect for your small group worship setting.

Songs Of Worship is a series of song sheets featuring your favorite songs, arranged in singable keys that are easy to play on the guitar or piano. The Easter Favorites 2 collection contains a resource of 24 chord charts complied into a 6 page format that you can mix and match to create custom song sheets for yourself or your small group.

Without a doubt, having a song land in the CCLI Top 100 is a significant benchmark for any Christian songwriter. While PraiseCharts tracks music purchasing in real-time, CCLI tracks the week to week usage of worship songs and reports on the results twice a year. The list may be static, and the songs might be dated, but it still represents a snapshot in time of significant trends in worship from churches all across the nation. This list is based on results from the USA and gets updated twice a year. See also Songs on the Rise from CCLI.

Designed for any worship setting, Songs Of Worship is a series of song sheets featuring your favorite worship titles in all kinds of genres, arranged in singable keys that are easy to play on the guitar or piano. All of these simplified arrangements are adapted from the most popular versions of the original arrangements that match the recordings you may have heard on the radio or your streaming platforms.