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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,

a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. A few years ago, songs that were topping the Billboard Hot 100 might have sounded like this.

It's about damn time.

Or this.

I'm a savage.

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

Oh, place. Hallelujah. Yeah. are getting the most replays are sounding more like this.

And a little further 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 McGinnis.

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.

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