Some people have inquired why it takes a long time for song submissions to appear on my website. My hope is that this page will address this question and show transparency in upcoming reviews.
Below is my scheduling process:
- Balancing this website between work, family, and serving at my local church, I can maintain a schedule of at least one to two reviews per week. These reviews come out every Wednesday and Sunday.
- Once a month, I fill the schedule with the top two songs from the most recent polls, with ties broken based on the earliest submission. Each regular poll contains eight entries.
- Two weeks per month, I will suspend polling to schedule “extra songs”.
- I will run additional polls as needed to fill spots, ensuring one to two reviews per week.
- I keep an offline log of all submissions that did not pass polling and will select them randomly as the “extra songs” list. This attempts to balance top-voted songs with other submissions and prevents selections from appearing in future polls. Users may resubmit songs that appear on my offline log.
- Song submissions directly from the artist receive priority after the polls.
- I reserve the right to bypass songs outside of these restrictions, to balance artists and genres. I may also choose a song for my own edification that I hope will help others.
Below is a full listing of song submissions that are in the queue. This includes upcoming reviews, the current polling queue, and extra songs. I hope to revisit the final list when I have some extra time to crank out an extra review or two in a month.
Due to high submission volume, I will cap the polling queue at 32 songs before closing the form for two weeks.
April 28th, 2024
Jamie Kimmett – Prize Worth Fighting For [Extra Song]
May 1st, 2024
Benjamin Angeles – For You I Am Living [Artist submission]
May 5th, 2024
Planetshakers – Leave Me Astounded (Studio) [Extra Song]
May 8th, 2024
Hillsong UNITED – Know You Will
May 12th, 2024
Hillsong Worship – Love So Great
May 15th, 2024
Elevation Worship – Only King Forever
May 19th, 2024
Brandon Lake – Count’em
May 26th, 2024
Hope Darst – If The Lord Builds The House [Extra Song]
June 2nd, 2024
Kingdom Culture Worship – How Good the Lord is [Extra Song]
Current Poll A
[None]
Current Poll B
[None]
Polling on Deck A
Leeland – Inhabit
Tim Hughes – May The Words Of My Mouth
Starfield – The Saving One [Previously requested]
Kari Jobe – Your Nature [Previously requested]
twenty one pilots – Heavydirtysoul
Brandon Lake – Coat of Many Colors
Bethel Music (Feat. Jenn Johnson & Mitch Wong) – The Blood [Previously requested]
NEEDTOBREATHE – Difference Maker [Previously requested]
Polling on Deck B
Cory Asbury – Kind [Previously requested]
Jeremy Riddle – Sweetly Broken
Planetshakers – Turn it up [Previously requested]
Aaron Shust – My Savior My God [Previously requested]
Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music – Names [Previously requested]
Gateway Worship (Feat. Josh Baldwin) – Crowns Down
Rhett Walker – Man on the Middle Cross [Previously requested]
Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise
Current Polling Queue
Graham Kendrick – Shine Jesus Shine
Crowder – Grave Robber
Jesus Culture – Look To The Lamb
Ghost Ship – Hesed
Derek Minor, International Show, & Oswin Benjamin (Feat. DJ Mal-Ski) – Vibrations
Gateway worship – Who else
Michael W. Smith – You Are Holy (Prince of Peace)
August Burns Red – Redemption
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Cody Carnes & Benjamin William Hastings – Take You At Your Word
Common Gathering – Jesus My Everything [acoustic version]
Phil Wickham – Heart Full of Praise [Previously requested]
Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes – Forever & Amen
twenty one pilots – Screen
Chris Renzema – God is love
Starfield – Unashamed [Previously requested]
Jared Anderson – Hear Us From Heaven
Current Polling Queue Overflow
Metallica – Creeping Death
Extra Songs
Jeremy Camp – There will be a day
Travis Cottrell – The Reason
Canyon Worship – How You Love Me
Wolves at the Gate – Majesty in Misery
Cloverton – God Help Me To Be
The Belonging Co (Feat. Hope Darst) – Love Like This
Put on Hold
[None]
Christmas 2024 Queue
Travis Cottrell – Jesus Saves [Extra song; will be reviewed]
Updates:
01/24/2024 – Per January 2024 announcement, I changed the schedule so that there would be two weeks of two songs run by polling and two weeks of one song per week run by “extra songs”.
07/11/2023 – Per August 2023 polls, I expanded the polling queue to 32 songs and changed polling from ~one poll per week to ~two polls every other week.
07/31/2022 – Per July 31st, 2022 announcement, I will further reduce the polling queue cap by two per poll release until it reaches 24. Also, there will be no poll once a month, with songs filled from the “extra songs” list. I also updated the language for the scheduling process.
01/30/2022 – Per January 30th, 2022 announcement, I will reduce the polling queue cap by two per poll release until it reaches 40. This process will begin on February 6th, 2022.
07/28/2021 – Per July 28th, 2021 announcement, I removed Hillsong and Elevation Worship queues and will add their submissions to the regular polling queue.
05/22/2021 – With the “Extra Songs” list cleared of promised song reviews, it will now contain random song selections that did not pass polling. I modified the language on step #4 and removed the phrase “(previously ‘did not pass polling queue’)” to fit this current process. See the May 2nd, 2021 announcement for more details.
07/25/2020 – Added Elevation Worship polling that will run under the same rules as Hillsong. Also, updated step 7 in the review process to include this artist.
07/21/2020 – Added a statement in red text about the 100-song cap mentioned in my August 2020 II poll.
06/07/2020 – In step 1 of the review process, I added “at least” before “two reviews”. This clarifies that I’ll minimally do two reviews per week. There may be opportunities (such as the current COVID-19 crisis) where I could do more.
05/03/2020 – In step 3 of the review process, I corrected the number of entries per poll. It is eight, not four. Also, in step 6, I added “that I hope will help others” at the end of the last sentence to communicate that my choices are meant to edify everyone, not just me.
11/12/2019 – See this page for changes to upcoming reviews.
Last Updated: 04/23/2024, 11:57 PM EDT