A few years ago, songs that were topping the Billboard Hot 100 might have sounded like this.

Or this.

But lately, the songs that are getting the most replays are sounding more like this.

And a little fl down on the charts

Like this

Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

The Hot 100 has been getting a heavy dose of piety and prayer

lately. It's an unusual thing for multiple Christian artists to be on the Billboard Hot 100

at the same time, and that's happened right now. That's Kelsey Kramer McGuinness. I am a reporter

for Christianity today covering music and congregational worship practices,

and I'm an adjunct professor at Grandview University.

She even has a name for this unusual amount of faith-flavored music on the charts.

Bar-stool conversion rock.

It's sort of this, like, interesting web of things between masculinity, kind of

conservative politics, country. It's the type of music two guys can share a beer over and

reflect on the simple things at life, like the goodness of God. I mean, you even have, you know,

jelly roll, Shaboozy, Alex Warren, a whole collection of, I would add, primarily male artists making this kind of faith-flavored music and really making breakthroughs with it.

And it's not just the Hot 100.

Over the past years, Spotify streams of Christian contemporary music have grown 60%.

The market and appetite for Christian music seems to be swelling.

There are some Christians who look at that and say,

revival is coming. There's a sign of something that's happening.

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