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 on Sunday and occasionally on Wednesday.
- Once a month, there will be four Round 1 polls and two Round 2 polls. Each regular poll contains eight entries. A song must be within the top four on Round 1 and top two on Round 2 to be included on the review roster. Ties broken based on earliest submission.
- At least once 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 both rounds in 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 four to five weeks.
October 6th, 2024
Charity Gayle (Feat. David Gentiles) – New Name Written Down in Glory [Mistaken poll]
October 13th, 2024
John Rich (Feat. Sonya Isaacs) – Revelation
October 20th, 2024
Hillsong Worship – Christ Is Enough
October 27th, 2024
UPPERROOM (Feat. Abbie Gamboa) – Love Note [Extra Song]
November 3rd, 2024
Michael Joncas – On Eagle’s Wings [Extra Song]
November 10th, 2024
[Reserved for Round 2 November poll winner]
November 17th, 2024
[Reserved for Round 2 November poll winner]
November 24th, 2024
Reawaken Hymns – Sovereign Sacrifice [Artist submission; Thanksgiving review]
December 25th, 2024
Travis Cottrell – Jesus Saves [Christmas Review]
Devember 31st, 2024
[TBA End of year song]
Current Poll Round 2
[None]
Current Poll A Round 1
[None]
Current Poll B Round 1
[None]
Polling On Deck Queue A (Nov)
Elevation Worship (Feat. Chris Brown & Tiffany Hudson) – When Wind Meets Fire
The Slays – Reeled and Rocked
Brandon Lake – That’s Who I Praise
We The Kingdom – Won’t He Do It
Jesus Culture (Feat. Chris McClarney) – Let The People Sing [Previously requested]
CeCe Winans – That’s My King
Chris Renzema – Springtime [Previously requested]
Passion – Follow You Anywhere
Polling On Deck Queue B (Nov)
Emu Music – Take Heart
CeCe Winans – Come Jesus Come [Previously requested]
Elevation Worship (Feat. Tiffany Hudson) – Sure Been Good
Jesus Image (Feat. Jeremy Riddle) – Come Lord Jesus
Hillsong UNITED – Delightful (The Sower Never Wastes A Tear)
gavn! – Open Arms (Hallelujah)
Keith & Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell & Matt Papa – God of Every Grace
Phil Wickham – Wait
Current Polling Queue Overflow
Hillsong Worship – The Power of Your Love
Maverick City Music & UPPERROOM – You Hold It All Together
Caleb & John – Somebody Like Me
Passion – Salvation Belongs to You
Hillsong Worship – Endless Light
Aodhán King (Feat. Paul Jason Klein) – Thank You So Much Jesus
Sondae & Moflo – Fly Away
Benjamin William Hastings – Homeward [Previously requested]
Josh Baldwin (Feat. Jenn Johnson) – Made for more
Extra Songs
Stephen Stanley – No Hopeless Soul
River Valley Worship – Every Good Thing
Unspoken – God Help Me
Josh Pantana – Glory
Put on Hold
[None]
Christmas 2024 Queue
[None]
Updates:
07/30/2024 – Per July 2024 announcement, I will revert polling back to the January 2024 scheduling starting in December 2024.
06/03/2024 – Per June 2024 announcement, I changed polling to a two-tiered system.
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: 10/03/2024, 9:19 AM EDT